We did pretty much the same thing here in Belvidere (bought Enterprise vSphere licenses, and voluntarily downgraded them for a year's time to add HA/vMotion capability to our existing VI3 infrastructure). We just upgraded our cluster to vSphere 4 over this past summer (which was a much less onerous process than I had anticipated/feared it would be).
David Kenny Network Administrator Belvidere CUSD #100 From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org [mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of BRIAN DICHTER Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 12:51 PM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] ESXi "Expert" needed That is interesting. We had actually purchased vSphere Enterprise licenses which was just around the time that VI3 was "discontinued" but downgraded the licenses to deploy VI3 so we're legal to upgrade and run vSphere. Unfortunately at the time, I knew more about VI3 than I did vSphere (which is why we deployed VI3) and didn't think Enterprise Plus would be a big deal over Enterprise especially since we were starting small with only a handful of hosts. So, we don't have the distributed switch feature. Upgrading will require a rebuild of each box (the easy part) and a reconfiguration of each virtual switch (the more work part). On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Joshua Halls <j...@joshhalls.com<mailto:j...@joshhalls.com>> wrote: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/small_business_editions_comparison.html If you are looking to move up to vsphere you might want to look into this. For some of our environments this will be sufficient (3 servers). It supports High Availability and they recently added vMotion to the one that runs around $3000. On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Ekhoff, Andrew <aekh...@sags.k12.il.us<mailto:aekh...@sags.k12.il.us>> wrote: VCP4 exam isn't bad. It's very similar to the VCP3 test. The main differences are maximums of ESX4 vs ESX3, memory, vswitches, etc.. The VCP4 test includes some of the newer vmware products too. When I took the test I was still consulting so I was knee deep in it everyday. I used Test Kings to supplement my hands on experience. The next iteration of the VCP I'm probably going to have to explore some other study methods. One book I have found helpful, not for the test but general design and administration, is VMware Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design Guide and Advanced Operations Guide. I was hoping they would have a new one for vSphere 4 but I haven't seen it yet. There are a lot of study materials on VMWare's website also. Good luck with the upgrade to vSphere, I've done a few of those too. ________________________________________ From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org<mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org> [tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org<mailto:tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org>] On Behalf Of BRIAN DICHTER [brian.dich...@d214.org<mailto:brian.dich...@d214.org>] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:37 AM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] ESXi "Expert" needed Hey Andrew, I think I'll call you for advice! I'm going to schedule it after I finish our upgrade to vSphere. How was the VCP4 exam for you? On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Ekhoff, Andrew <aekh...@sags.k12.il.us<mailto:aekh...@sags.k12.il.us><mailto:aekh...@sags.k12.il.us<mailto:aekh...@sags.k12.il.us>>> wrote: Feel free to contact me also. My experience with VMware is: 3 years with a consulting firm, heavy vmware work. Started with ESX2 up till current. I've configured HA clusters, DRS, Vmotion. iSCSI, NFS, replication configurations on NetApp and EMC sans. 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