On 2024-04-15 15:40, Kevin A. McGrail via mailop wrote:
We have four servers where we can't retrieve our free ESXi VMWare
license after Broadcom shut things down and they are in evaluation
mode for about 30 more days.
Does any one have any advice? Is there a product we can buy? Is
there an alternative you've been switching over to using? Anyone have
a spare license we can use?
Install Linux on the bare metal. Then:
Proxmox is popular. I believe it has a web interface.
or
libvirt + virt-manager (assuming your management computer runs Linux
with a GUI). I use this in production.
The transition might be a bit tricky depending on where the data is
stored. Assuming it's local, you're going to need to copy the VM disk
images off in some fashion before you reformat. If you have the
resources, the safest would be to move VMs off one server to the other
three to free up one server, then reformat that server, then move VMs
from one of the other three to it, then repeat. Note that the emulated
hardware will be slightly different too, which will take some tweaking.
If the guests are Linux, that's probably pretty straightforward. If they
are Windows, it might be more unhappy (e.g. triggering a need for
re-activation).
--
Richard
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