vCenter - as you probably know - is licensed per instance, so what you need is a single license.
ESXi hosts however are licensed by physical sockets/processors, i.e. a dual-CPU host requires 2 ESXi CPU licenses.
If you don't have licenses yet, you may consider to purchase an Acceleration Kit, which contains vCenter Serer Standard plus 6 CPU licenses, which is cheaper than the separate licenses. For the remaining CPUs you can then purchase additional licenses.
André
I am having trouble finding step-by-step information for transfering my existing Fusion installation/license to a new MacBook Pro that I will be acquiring. The old (current) MacBook Pro will be decommissioned when the new one arrives.
How does this process work and what do I need to do?
TIA,
Theo
It is trying to install it. Should I let it happen, as I still do not see the Catalina app in Applications.
After downloading Catalina, the installer launches automatically, initially showing a title screen the name and a big icon/picture of the OS and a Continue button. At that point, the "Install macOS Catalina" application will be sitting in your Applications folder.
If you proceed (by clicking Continue), go through the next couple of pages, and tell it to install, then Catalina will start to install on your main drive (replacing your existing operating system with a new copy). If you let it get that far, the installer is deleted automatically (if it is run from the Applications folder, which is the normal case when it has just been downloaded).
At the page with the Continue button (or either of the next two) you can quit the installer (Command-Q) and the "Install macOS Catalina" application will still be in your Applications folder so you can copy or move it, or use it to create a VM. (If you want to move it, hold down the Command key while dragging, and you will asked to authenticate as an administrator.)
The same pattern applies to other macOS installers obtained from App Store. The automatic launch only happens if you download the installer for the major version you are already running or newer; older major versions (such as Mojave if you are running Catalina) won't launch automatically because they can't run in a later version of macOS.
effectively I have a mackbook pro 19 and am new to macOS
One of my Macs is a late 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro, which can only run Catalina. Running through the process myself, I was able to download the Catalina installer and use it to create a VM using the following detailed procedure.
Get the Catalina installer
1. Run App Store (e.g. via the Apple menu).
2. In the search field (top left corner), type Catalina and press return.
3. "macOS Catalina" shows up as the first search result. Click the View button for that item.
4. Click the Get button on the listing for macOS Catalina. (Note: you do not need to be signed in with your Apple ID.)
5. This switches to System Preferences, which asks if you are sure you want to download macOS Catalina. Click Download.
6. Wait for the download to complete.
7. When the download has finished, the Catalina installer opens automatically, showing the initial title screen, with a "Continue" button. Do NOT click that button. Instead, quit from the installer (Command-Q).
8. Go to your Applications folder. You will find an application there called "Install macOS Catalina" (with a .app extension if you have configured Finder to show all filename extensions). It should be a little over 8 GB.
As a side effect of downloading and running the Catalina installer, the system has probably mounted a disk image inside the Catalina installer. You have to unmount it before VMware Fusion can use the installer to create a VM.
9. Run Disk Utility (in Utilities under Applications).
10. If you see an "Install ESD" disk image, eject it.
11. Quit Disk Utility.
Now you can create the Catalina virtual machine.
12. Launch VMware Fusion.
13. Make sure all of Catalina's security features are set up to allow VMware Fusion to work (in System Preferences): system extension unblocked, accessibility enabled, may need access to the Documents folder, depending on where VMware Fusion is saving your virtual machines. You should get prompts for these the first time you run VMware Fusion after installing it in Catalina.
14. Drag the "Install macOS Catalina" application onto the VMware Fusion icon in the dock (or use the "+" button to create a new virtual machine, and drag the "Install macOS Catalina" application to that window.
15. Choose the settings you want, then create the VM.
16. After copying the install medium (this step fails if you didn't eject the disk image in step 10), the VM should start up and run the recovery volume, initially prompting you for a language. Then you can choose to install macOS Catalina.
After going through the above sequence, waiting for install, and initial setup, I had a working Catalina system.
Inside the VM I was then able to download the Mojave installer, starting from the link on How to upgrade to macOS Mojave - Apple Support then downloading Mojave in a similar way to steps 4-6 and 8 above (no step 7 because it doesn't launch automatically, also don't need steps 9 to 11 because the disk image issue only applies to Catalina), copied the Mojave installer to the host and did steps 14-16 (but didn't bother going ahead with the OS install as I already have a Mojave VM).
As I mentioned we have 8 server 2 cpu each. According to your answer I need bu 8 vsphere standard license right ? what about vsphere essential kit ? Is it suitable with vcenter server standard ?
As I mentioned we have 8 server 2 cpu each. According to your answer I need bu 8 vsphere standard license right ?
No, you'll need one license per CPU, in your case with 8 hosts x 2 CPUs => 16 CPU licenses.
what about vsphere essential kit ? Is it suitable with vcenter server standard ?
No, Essentials Kits support up to 3 hosts with a maximum of 2 CPUs each, and contain their own "vCenter Server for Essentials" license.
André
Do you know price for 8 server with 2 cpu vspeher server standard then ?
It's basically as simple as installing Fusion on the new MacBook, and entering your license key.
The virtual machines (except for Bootcamp) are files/folders which you can copy over to the new system, and register them in Fusion's inventory.
Make sure that you properly shut down (not suspend) the VM's prior to copying them, otherwise you may run into issues. In case the VMs have active snapshots, you should also consolidate/delete them (at least those, which were taken with the VM powered on) before copying the files.
André
I'd suggest that you ask for an offer from a VMware partner near you.
As mentioned before, you may ask them for a vSphere Acceleration Kit plus 10 CPU licenses, which will be cheaper than purchasing vCenter Server + 16 CPU licenses.
What you also need to decide is which Edition (Standard, Enterprise Plus, ...) you need/want, and what kind (and duration) of Subscription and Support (SnS).
Please take a look at e.g. Server Virtualization Software | vSphere Editions | VMware for details, and available options.
André
Many thanks for the answer.
So VMware does have a bit of a "mouth too full" attitude. Okay.
Currently I'm using Workstation Pro with a Ryzen 5 with integrated graphics unit.
However, I would like to try Workstation Pro again with a new computer (Ryzen 9 + separate graphics card).
Hence my question about choosing a suitable graphics card.
So wouldn't an AMD Radeon Pro, when using VMware Workstation Pro, be more advantageous than an end-user graphics card?
Will Workstation Pro work better with an AMD or nVIDIA end user graphics card, or will it work equally well with both chips and/or Linux drivers?
Are there any technical features that a graphics card should have in order for Workstation Pro to provide the virtual graphics card with optimal performance?
Quote: "It's a virtualized graphics adapter and as such it is much less powerful, because there's a lot that a VM cannot directly access and use.
To put it bluntly: Does it make any difference at all if a separate graphics card is used or if only the processor powers the virtual graphics card?
What is the minimum graphics card that should be installed so that it provides more power than the processor has previously provided?
Hi,
try these three steps:
ARomeo
Have a chance to double-check the performance one you have tweaked MTU settings. Setting Jumbo Frames to 9k might help. These pages are related to the setting.
Good morning,
After one week of testing using multiple datastores with VMFS 5 shared between an esxi 5.5 GA (build 1331820) cluster (with VMware vCenter Server 5.5.0 build-1476327) and one esxi 6.7.0u3 host didn't found any evidence of problems.
I used to follow the next test plan Resiliency Testing | vSAN 6.7 U 3 Proof of Concept Guide | VMware
Moderator: Moved to vSAN
Yes, VMware has VMware VSAN that is "storage virtualization software that, when combined with vSphere, allows you to manage compute and storage with a single platform."
Here is a link to the course that covers VMware VSAN deploy and manage processes. VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage [V6.7]
Eventually, there are many 3rd party tools used with VMware vSphere/ESXi as S2D alternatives. Some of them are EMC Unity VSA, Starwind Virtual SAN, and HPE StorageVirtual VSA. The following pages describe the solutions and their pros and cons. Either one does shared-nothing storage to the cluster. They differ on requirements, licensing and performance.
Or would the best route be to pass how ever many disks to a Windows VM and have the VM handle it?
What are you trying to set up? As it asked, please elaborate a bit more on your VMware case.
If I understand the article correct, as far as performance concern, there should be no issues with sharing the same TCP connection by many NFS mounts. Correct? If not correct, please tell me why?
1. How the VMs are provisioned? Is it thin or thick provision?
2. What is NAS? Is it a single iSCSI LUN connected? What is the RAID level? What are its settings? Have you tweaked networking between NAS and VMware host?
You can't unfortunately. Grids do not support dropdowns/auto complete for fields.
The best you can do is run External Validation on it after they input their desired settings.
Dieter,
I have not been able to locate it, not at VMware's site, not at my network.
It's part of the latest VMware Workstation 10 (Download 10.0.6) or VMware Player (6.0.7), but ... you would need to download those, install them _and then_ extract that particular .iso file.
FWIW, you could do that in a VM, it's a bit of a long way to get there though.
In regards to the tools-winPre2k-8.1.4.exe.
No you don't copy that into the VM. The .exe will unpack an iso file (the WinPre2k.iso ). I think you can unpack directly using 7zip without running the .exe.
Otherwise you might have to go locate the .iso it extracts (IIRC it is under C:\Program Files\VMware\ ..."
You then point your Windows 2000 virtual cdrom to the .iso file, connect it and from within the VM you then run the setup installer for vmware tools.
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Wil
What does the provisioning diagram look like? It will show what decisions were made on the placement of the VM.