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Hi Alex, the licensing depends on how many vm's you need backed up and what features you need i.e. just backup or you also require CDP for DR. If you go here and fill in your requirements they'll be able to provide a quote -> www.vinchin.com/how-to-buy.html What ever the quote comes back as, you'll get 50% off that for 3 months

Thank you Cortex, you're most welcome

Hi cs512tr, you're welcome, glad you enjoyed it :)

Thanks Inesa, such a cool product

You're welcome Francisco

Thanks Liora for the great feedback :)

Thanks Eyalzombek it surely is a great product and simple to use

​@@sysadmintutorialsFrom your experience, to which size is this tool mostly relevant?

no matter if the company is small or large, all sizes can benefit

Thanks for your comment Doritoren :)

Hi there, thanks for your comment, what's the query you have, as in how to do it in an Enhanced Linked mode setup ?

@@sysadmintutorials that’s correct. I am not finding a reliable article from VMware/Broadcom/or any third parties. Any thoughts? I know in a snapshot scenario, we could take offline snapshots all at same time to cover linked mode. However, I am not sure the same is applicable if we schedule file backups all at same time.

Hi Stephen, thanks for your comment, what's the error messages and do you see any indicators in the vcenter logs ?

iDRAC is a great option to if you wish to see the whole update process on console.

Thanks RamJ

Thank you for your kind words, and I'm happy you easily found my video in Google :)

From what I know, the license changes favors the big players, because the new vcf suite includes almost everything. As opposed to before they had to pay extra for additional products based on a tiering system and points per vram. For this top tier they could actually see a reduction in price. I have seen a few articles floating around about court cases within the EU against Broadcom due to these license changes, so will be interesting to see what comes of that.

@@sysadmintutorials Thanks for an informed response man! I appreciate it I had not heard about the possible EU court actions but I could see that happen.

Hi, you'll probably need to check if you system is compatible with the release of esxi you are intending to go to You can check here -> www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php

Yes that is correct, vcenter first followed by esxi hosts

@@sysadmintutorials thank you !!

Thank you, offline bundle you can download from vmware.com, once you have the image you can transfer it across to your other network with usb

Hi, can you list the incompatible info please ?

Thank you, link to the script is mentioned at the end of the video :) Yes also possible to do a stand alone host after setting IP.

awesome, you're welcome :)

Hi Steve, yes it will keep same ip and same hostname

Hi, you'll have to watch till the end of the video :)

Thank you Boris, you're very welcome.

Hola Jorge, thank you for your nice comment. I'm glad my content was able to help you. Have a Merry Christmas :)

Hi there, yes you can check your existing vcpu and ram allocation on the VM and then compare it to this table: magander.se/vmware-vcenter-server-6-7-resource-requirements/

Hi, 127.0.0.1 just means localhost, so refer to itself for dns. It's the same as entering the IP address used on the host. It then talks to the DNS server and either uses the forwarders (if you have them setup) or uses the root hint servers that are there by default.

⁠@@sysadmintutorials I'm going to active dorectory so bin static should give for dns 127.0.0.1 why

Hi, sorry what do you mean by "so bin static should give for dns" ?

Hey there Kennedy, thanks for the kind words, much appreciated :) Best of luck in your interviews, make sure to let us know when you secure a position!

@@sysadmintutorials Sure Sir, Thank you 💆‍♂️

Hi there, what you can do is build out your vsphere environment (vcenter and esxi host, vcenter sits inside esxi as a vm), then create your 2 vm's for gaming and editing.

@@sysadmintutorials I read some where of 8 VM cores max per vm is that true?

Hi Jong, no that's incorrect. It's much more than that. Depending on the version of vsphere here are the configuration maximums - configmax.esp.vmware.com/home for example for vsphere 7 and 8 it's 768 vcpu's per vm

@@sysadmintutorials can I run this all on one system or do I have to connect to it with separate pc

you would connect to it from another system. One example would be you have a windows vm running with RDP enabled, then from a laptop you would rdp to the vm. To be honest I wouldn't use this setup for gaming unless it's basic games. Complex video edit that you mentioned originally also requires some hefty ram and gpu.

Hi RomanyBibawy, no you don't need to, that's the beauty of DRS it can move your vm's live without any downtime :)

Thanks for the feedback, glad you enjoyed it :)

You're welcome!

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it

Hi Scriptmaster, if you find yourself in that scenario, I would recommend dedicating some additional time to ensure you have a robust monitoring system in place. While it may not be ideal to invest extra hours after your regular workday, it will yield significant benefits in the future

Thank you Cutlas, I'm finishing up another video this week which will be posted soon on server monitoring, I will add this to my list to ensure a video comes out with those additions for you :)

@@sysadmintutorials Thank you so much for your response !! 😀 I am. Waiting boss.

Hi there, in stage 1, step 4 do you see the FQDN there ?

Hi there thanks for your comment. What would you like to know about storage and network config ?

Thank you, you're welcome :)

Hi there, sorry can you rephrase ? Which manager ?

@@sysadmintutorials actually I want need to share the logs with another person but how. So how to download hosts, vpxa logs?

You can download a log bundle from vcenter, if you login to the vcenter management interface (<your vcenter ip>:5480) and select actions, create support bundle. Once the bundle has downloaded to your computer, unzip it with something like 7-zip and you'll have the logs there. Alternatively you can use WinSCP and connect to your vcenter IP, then browse to /storage/log and download the log files you need

Thank you for the nice comment :)

Thank you Mahareddy

Hi Almedogjurgji1446, what server are you using because there may be a few options available to you with multiple disks, raid types etc ?

@@sysadmintutorials hp proliant DL380 Gen10

Ok, you would create the raid volume before installing esxi, then you can place some vm's on the datastore. Is this a single server setup i.e. do you intend to use a cluster or multiple esxi hosts ?

@@sysadmintutorials it’s a unique physical server, one esxi host, 5-6 virtual machines on it. So can i install the esxi hypervisor and then the virtual machines (in general windows server 2016 machines) on the same datastore (raid volume) where is installed the esxi or do i need a separate raid volume (datastore) for the esxi and a separate one for the virtual machines (dedicated datastore)?

You can do either. Install esxi and use 1 big datastore for both esxi and vm's or you can create 2 volumes within your raid config so the first is used for esxi and 2nd is used for vm's. Is this a production server or a lab ?

Here it is psycl0ptic czcams.com/video/_pFezBKCW0Q/video.html :)

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You're welcome Sunilk :)

Well done on the upgrade. I'm working on some vSphere 8 videos and I'll be including and upgrade guide from 7 to 8 as well.

Hi ZoneVang, if that is the case you will need to shutdown some of your vm's until you have enough resources to place the host in maintenance mode.

Hi again Vincent, can you elaborate on what you mean by pasting the html in Chrome ? You should only need to double click the html file once and it will open in your browser.

@@sysadmintutorials hi My bad, syntax error I spelt my filename.hlmt instead of html. Fixed and thank you for replying.

Great that you fixed it, easy one :)

Hi Vincenton3535 thank you for your kind comments. I see that you downloaded the script from my Github page which is great. You can reach out to me via my email. Within my CZcams channel click on About tab.