Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- VMware vSphere ESXi 6.x on Dell EMC PowerEdge Systems Installation Instructions and Important Information Guide
- Introduction
- Installing vSphere 6.0
- Download Dell EMC customized ESXi image
- Installing, Enabling and Disabling ESXi
- Overview - Dell NUMA Fault Resilient Memory
- Enable Dell NUMA Fault Resilient Memory
- Overview - Dell Fault Resilient Memory
- Enabling Dell Fault Resilient Memory
- Installing ESXi on flash media
- Installing ESXi on the hard drive
- Installing ESXi on the BOSS-S1 device
- Enabling or Disabling Internal SD card
- Configuring one-time boot to ESXi
- Configuring boot sequence to ESXi
- Downloading patches and updates for ESXi
- Creating vCenter Server installation media
- Installing vCenter Server
- Deploying vSphere 6.0
- Configuration back up and restore procedures
- Licensing information
- Troubleshooting ESXi
- Getting help
Licensing information
This section discusses the different modes of obtaining license for your Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.
NOTE: For more information about the different editions, see vmware.com.
Topics:
• License evaluation
• vSphere licensing
• Administering license keys
• VMware Product Licensing
License evaluation
VMware allows a 60-day free evaluation period for all enterprise-level features of vSphere 6.0. At the end of the evaluation period, your
ESXi hypervisor may stop managing all virtual machines in the inventory. To continue managing the virtual machines, upgrade the
evaluation license to the vSphere Essentials Plus, Standard, Enterprise, or the Enterprise Plus edition license that you purchased.
vSphere licensing
If you order any vSphere license (Essentials Plus, Standard, Enterprise, Enterprise Plus, Virtual SAN, or vCenter Server) with your server,
the license certificate is shipped on a media with the server. To use the software and receive the subscription services, register, and
exchange the Partner Activation Code (PAC) printed on the license certificate for a license key or license activation code. The registration
must be completed within 30 days from the date of product purchase. With registration of the licensing or use of the ESXi hypervisor, you
are agreeing to the VMware ESXi and/or VMware vCenter Server End User License Agreement (EULA) posted at Vmware.com/
download/eula/.
For information about product features and licensing methods, go to vmware.com.
Administering license keys
You can administer the license key by using vSphere Client to manage the licenses individually on the ESXi system. Alternatively, you can
use vCenter Server to manage the licenses centrally.
NOTE:
For more information about administering license keys and the VMware software licensing configuration, go to
Vmware.com/support/pubs.
NOTE: If you receive a warning that you are disabling certain features by switching out of evaluation mode, click OK,
and then click Yes.
NOTE: Use all licensing information according to VMware’s End User Licensing Agreement.
VMware Product Licensing
The list of the VMware product license offerings are:
• vCenter Server Standard
• vSphere Essentials Plus
• vSphere Standard
• vSphere Enterprise Plus
• vSphere Desktop for 100 VMs
• vSOM Standard
• vSOM Enterprise
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