I guess I'm vSphere 6.0 now....

So I swear I asked Dell to send me the licensing for VMware 5.5 but in normal fashion they sent me Enterprise Plus 6.0 licensing. I was waiting and waiting for the keys and then I screamed at them for it. I was using my VMUG keys since Dell was slow with the e-licensing. ....the things I do so the project wasn't delayed!

My cluster is 5.5 at work.

Just cause I haven't dealt with 6.0 yet the upgrade the process is still....

1. VUM - didn't get to install it yet - so don't need to do this.
2. vCenter.
3. ESXi hosts.
4. VM tools.

See I just didn't want to do 6.0 yet because it's still buggy...

pondering if I should make Dell just give me 5.5 licensing or say frack it and go to 6.0. I'm pondering about downgrading the license to 5.5 for now...

Thoughts?

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iBrokeIT

I'll be waiting another 6-12 months for vSphere 6.0 because I really don't like testing vSphere on my production environment for VMware.

Check the HCL and backups backups backups if you do upgrade.

Deathmage

iBrokeIT wrote: »

I'll be waiting another 6-12 months for vSphere 6.0 because I really don't like testing vSphere on my production environment for VMware.

Check the HCL and backups backups backups if you do upgrade.

^my thoughts exactly...

jibbajabba

For years vSphere was always the most expensive Beta software out there

joelsfood

Get your 5.5 keys. Don't use 6 in production yet.

Deathmage

Whelp took probably the smarter approach and downgraded to 5.5 - would much rather upgrade my home-cluster with 6 and test it out before doing it live.

jibbajabba

Unless your home lab reflects vendors and configs used in your production environment, the test is likely nice but not really meaningful. I have upgraded and installed vCAC / vRA in my lab countless times and for two weeks we are trying to do the same at a customer's site without success. To a point where people even wonder if I ever done it lol

Deathmage

jibbajabba wrote: »

Unless your home lab reflects vendors and configs used in your production environment, the test is likely nice but not really meaningful. I have upgraded and installed vCAC / vRA in my lab countless times and for two weeks we are trying to do the same at a customer's site without success. To a point where people even wonder if I ever done it lol

"What we have here is failure to communicate"

Luckily I haven't run into a instance were planning and implementing **** and it doesn't work, it normally works the 1st time. I do on occasion get those things that drive me bonkers and I do this a few times

and then I figure it out

google and I'm all

...

Home-lab is pretty darn close to live, I have so many switches/externals/ap's/servers/LCD's/firewalls in my closet it's nutso and I have 2 Wyse C10Le stations in my basement I use for 'client' testing. I got about 2000 ft of cat5e wiring in my house...

... I did the math once with all the stuff in my rack and my 'inventory' in the storage closet I have close to $35k worth of hardware. Licensing from Microsoft I have from 3 years ago when I was taking the MCSA exams I bought a Microsoft Volume license with 20 seats of pretty much everything, 2008 R2 still suffices...lets just say this shits only on during weekends cause my electric bill reflects it. lol!

Wagnaard

Going live with a massive VDI project with vSphere 6 and View 6 this summer. Go me!

DigitalZeroOne

Have you logged into your account to see if you can downgrade the keys in the licensing area on VMware's site?