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Helaine Timonere
So ideally, we'd like to trial ESXi Essentials. However, it appears you can only trial the full ESXi version (Enterprise Plus) with pretty much everything enabled, which doesn't really help us to see the limitations of ESXi Essentials.
I know that I could just ignore features that aren't enabled but there's still the risk that something that isn't in Essentials gets inadvertently enabled so a trial of Essentials would be preferable.
We often get into the situation where we need to apply VMware licenses to test VMware products. And most of them are not aware that, VMware provides 60 days trial period for most of the products. For, VMware vCenter Server & ESXi gets the default trial period as soon as you install it. However, for some products you have to ask VMware to provide evaluation license key to test the product. It is easy and simple to get trial licenses for VMware Products.
recently i got the Firewall xg virtual appliance ( VM ) for trial , i'm deploying it these days and when it comes to ports configuration i want to change the Speed that is at 10 mb and its in half duplex i wanna make it 100 mb and full duplex but i can't change it neither from the webadmin or console , is there any limits on the trial version or bcz its virtual ?
When you install ESXi, it will load into a free trial of the Enterprise Plus version. After the trial period ends, it will revert to the free version. Features such as the VADP storage and backup API will stop working, as well as the ability to manage the host from the vCenter server. At this point, the ESXi host will be running the free version of ESXi. Ensure your license key is correctly assigned at this point.
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VMware ESXi is free, which is the hypervisor product from VMware, and so is VMware player which you can use to run virtual machines on your Windows or Linux desktop. Other VMware products provide 60 day free trial.
So my question is , If i can work on VMware workstation? or are there any workaround to get it resorted ? In vmware workstation, I have built PA labs using VM series Images before . I don't know if this trial image has any particular restrictions!
Might need to boot into maintenance mode and factory reset the configuration prior to it coming up fully. The trial specifically seems to be having an issue actually booting without that step. Workstation will support the VM just fine, even if it's not officially supported.
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Are you working on lab VMWare ESXi which has got 60 days trial license? At times, you realize that you are almost end of the trial and you wont be able to use ESXi anymore until you install a license. Well, you can reset the license and you can again use ESXi for next 60 days. And when the trial ends again, reset the license again.
The first thing is to identify a use case of what you are looking to automate. Start with something easy and attainable for your first mission. If you don't have a good use case, then create one yourself in a lab. VMware vSphere can be deployed as a trial license to provide an environment to automate against. My use case dealt with exactly that, a VMware vSphere environment that I needed to automate restoring a virtual machine snapshot and powering the VM back on.
I found that Postman is a useful tool to test your API calls. With a lot of research and trial and error I was able to create API calls that authenticated a session and queried the numeric VM ID based on the virtual machine name. It is very easy to make REST calls within Ansible since you are just sending and receiving web requests to a URL. I reviewed the documentation for creating REST calls in Ansible, so I was comfortable doing this if a future project required it.
After declaring my host and variables, we drop into tasks. From here on every code section starting with a dash will be considered an individual task. This allows Ansible to know what tasks succeed and what tasks fail. It also allows us to pass output to the user or to another task. The module "vmware_guest" is from the VMware collection. I looked at the documentation for this method to determine the variables required. I am passing the vCenter credentials and also the variable "vm" that I defined in my project on Tower. The variable contains the name of the VM I want to power off.
This is the task to restore a VM snapshot. This task uses the "vmware_guest" module and I also pass the vCenter credentials it needs. This module requires a bit more information to run. The name of the VM is the same as the previous task. The module needs to also know the Data Center and VM Folder name from vCenter to target the VM. I also pass these to my playbook using variables that I define in Tower. The last lines tell the module to target the snapshot and that I want to revert to it.
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