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Posted to dev@vcl.apache.org by 杨杰 <xt...@gmail.com> on 2009/05/16 05:11:09 UTC
Is the free license restricted in ESXi ?
HI, I have one more question, which is a problem in our experiment. We are
now using the esxi with free license. When trying to take the operations
like vmcreate or vmcontrol, we receive an error command saying that we are
trying a restricted operation. The cmds are as shown:
> Error in 'Redh5' under host esxi2.p12.edu.cn: VM 'Redh5' can't be powered
> off
>
> SOAP Fault:
>
-----------
>
Fault string: fault.RestrictedVersion.summary
>
The question has been submitted to the mailing list some days before. As
the reply, we confirmed the reason on the both conditions of non-license and
free-license, but the operations still succeeded without license and failed
with a free license. Some discussions in the vmware official forum show that
the free license is restricted from modification operations.
Have you encountered the problem ? And is there any way to solve the problem
?
--
Yang Jie（杨杰）
Team of MRMSS, Xi'an Jiaotong University
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University
TEL: +8613468883723;029-82665263 EXT.24
MSN: xtyangjie2004@yahoo.com.cn
E-mail: xtyangjie@gmail.com
Laurence J. Peter<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/laurence_j_peter.html>
- "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but
forgetting
where you heard it."
Re: Is the free license restricted in ESXi ?
Posted by Brian Bouterse <bm...@ncsu.edu>.
Here is a bit of interesting evidence to help you get to the heart of
the problem. I took your command and changed the variables to match a
configuration in the lab, here is the command I used:
./vmcontrol.pl --server 152.14.17.230 --username root --password
password_here --operation poweroff --vmname vdc
This command successfully turns on a host when executed on a linux box
wit viperl installed and running from the /usr/lib/vmware-viperl/apps/
vm/ directory.
Here's another consideration, when I look at at the Licensed Features
of my ESX 3i servers, I don't have any "Add-Ons," but I notice that
yours have VMware Consolidated Backup which is installed with the
"Evaluation License," when one first turns on an unlicensed ESX 3i
box. When the license file from vmware.com is installed, it removes
this Add-On capability. Yours is not removed, so this leads me to
believe that your license configuration is not correct.
Have you reproduced the problem on a different physical hypervisor?
When licensing an ESX server, what exactly is your procedure?
There is a prompt you are asked for during the licensing process, what
is your response to that?
In short, take another look at it, because that command works great on
our end, and we're using commodity ESX 3i with a license from vmware.com
Best,
Brian
Brian Bouterse
Secure Open Systems Initiative
919.698.8796
On May 17, 2009, at 9:22 AM, 杨杰 wrote:
> There are two conditions:
> 1. The free license is installed correctly( which has been confirmed
> today).
>
> When checking the licensed features, i get the information as follows:
>
>> Licensed Features
>>
>
>> Licensed Source
>>
> Serial Number: [the SN got from the website]
>>
>
>> ESX Server Edition
>>
> ESX Server Standalone Licensed for 2 CPUs
>>
> NAS Usage
>>
> iSCSI Usage
>>
> Up to 4-way virtual SMP
>>
> SAN Usage
>>
>
>> Add-Ons
>
> [Nothing here because no addons are installed]
>
>
> On the condition, the CMD i typed and the ERROR is:
>
>> [root@management vm]# ./vmcontrol.pl --server 192.168.4.202 --
>> username
>> root --password xjtudlc --operation poweroff --vmname Redh5
>
>
>> Error in 'Redh5' under host esxi2.p12.edu.cn: VM 'Redh5' can't be
>> powered
>> off
>
>
>> SOAP Fault:
>
> -----------
>
> Fault string: fault.RestrictedVersion.summary
>
>
> 2. No license is installed:
>
> After the former operation, i deleted the license and checked the
> licensed
> features, i get the information as follows:
>
>> Licensed Features
>>
>
>> Licensed Source
>>
> Evaluation 30 day(s) remaining
>>
>
>>
> ESX Server Edition
>>
> ESX Server Standalone Licensed for 2 CPUs
>>
> NAS Usage
>>
> iSCSI Usage
>>
> Up to 4-way virtual SMP
>>
> SAN Usage
>>
>
>> Add-Ons
>
> VMware Consolidated Backup Licensed for 2 CPUs
>
>
> Then i started the vm with the VIClient and executed the same cmd
> through
> the remote command console. The operation is successful without any
> error or
> warnings. The target vm is also stopped as the cmd.
>
> We have checked the installation of the license and the error is
> indeed
> here. i dont know how to solve it.
>
>
> virtual machine 'Redh5' under host esxi2.p12.edu.cn powered off
> 2009/5/16 Brian Bouterse <bm...@ncsu.edu>
>
>> The ESX 3i license given to you from the website, is that
>> installed? You
>> can check under Configuration -> Licensed Features to make sure you
>> have
>> your stuff licensed for N CPUs.
>>
>> I've used vmcreate and vmcontrol operations with the ESX 3i and it
>> worked
>> fine for me. Could you provide the commands which are
>> problematic? I don't
>> see them in the e-mail thread below.
>>
>> Best,
>> Brian
>>
>>
>> Brian Bouterse
>> Secure Open Systems Initiative
>> 919.698.8796
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 15, 2009, at 11:11 PM, 杨杰 wrote:
>>
>> HI, I have one more question, which is a problem in our experiment.
>> We are
>>> now using the esxi with free license. When trying to take the
>>> operations
>>> like vmcreate or vmcontrol, we receive an error command saying
>>> that we are
>>> trying a restricted operation. The cmds are as shown:
>>>
>>> Error in 'Redh5' under host esxi2.p12.edu.cn: VM 'Redh5' can't be
>>>> powered
>>>> off
>>>>
>>>>
>>> SOAP Fault:
>>>>
>>>> -----------
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Fault string: fault.RestrictedVersion.summary
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The question has been submitted to the mailing list some days
>>> before. As
>>> the reply, we confirmed the reason on the both conditions of non-
>>> license
>>> and
>>> free-license, but the operations still succeeded without license and
>>> failed
>>> with a free license. Some discussions in the vmware official forum
>>> show
>>> that
>>> the free license is restricted from modification operations.
>>>
>>> Have you encountered the problem ? And is there any way to solve the
>>> problem
>>> ?
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Yang Jie（杨杰）
>>>
>>> Team of MRMSS, Xi'an Jiaotong University
>>>
>>> Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong
>>> University
>>>
>>> TEL: +8613468883723;029-82665263 EXT.24
>>>
>>> MSN: xtyangjie2004@yahoo.com.cn
>>>
>>> E-mail: xtyangjie@gmail.com
>>> Laurence J. Peter<
>>> http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/laurence_j_peter.html>
>>> - "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but
>>> forgetting
>>> where you heard it."
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Yang Jie（杨杰）
>
> Team of MRMSS, Xi'an Jiaotong University
>
> Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong
> University
>
> TEL: +8613468883723;029-82665263 EXT.24
>
> MSN: xtyangjie2004@yahoo.com.cn
>
> E-mail: xtyangjie@gmail.com
> P. J. O'Rourke<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/p_j_orourke.html
> >
> - "Never fight an inanimate object."
Re: Is the free license restricted in ESXi ?
Posted by 杨杰 <xt...@gmail.com>.
There are two conditions:
1. The free license is installed correctly( which has been confirmed today).
When checking the licensed features, i get the information as follows:
> Licensed Features
>
> Licensed Source
>
Serial Number: [the SN got from the website]
>
> ESX Server Edition
>
ESX Server Standalone Licensed for 2 CPUs
>
NAS Usage
>
iSCSI Usage
>
Up to 4-way virtual SMP
>
SAN Usage
>
> Add-Ons
[Nothing here because no addons are installed]
On the condition, the CMD i typed and the ERROR is:
> [root@management vm]# ./vmcontrol.pl --server 192.168.4.202 --username
> root --password xjtudlc --operation poweroff --vmname Redh5
> Error in 'Redh5' under host esxi2.p12.edu.cn: VM 'Redh5' can't be powered
> off
> SOAP Fault:
-----------
Fault string: fault.RestrictedVersion.summary
2. No license is installed:
After the former operation, i deleted the license and checked the licensed
features, i get the information as follows:
> Licensed Features
>
> Licensed Source
>
Evaluation 30 day(s) remaining
>
>
ESX Server Edition
>
ESX Server Standalone Licensed for 2 CPUs
>
NAS Usage
>
iSCSI Usage
>
Up to 4-way virtual SMP
>
SAN Usage
>
> Add-Ons
VMware Consolidated Backup Licensed for 2 CPUs
Then i started the vm with the VIClient and executed the same cmd through
the remote command console. The operation is successful without any error or
warnings. The target vm is also stopped as the cmd.
We have checked the installation of the license and the error is indeed
here. i dont know how to solve it.
virtual machine 'Redh5' under host esxi2.p12.edu.cn powered off
2009/5/16 Brian Bouterse <bm...@ncsu.edu>
> The ESX 3i license given to you from the website, is that installed? You
> can check under Configuration -> Licensed Features to make sure you have
> your stuff licensed for N CPUs.
>
> I've used vmcreate and vmcontrol operations with the ESX 3i and it worked
> fine for me. Could you provide the commands which are problematic? I don't
> see them in the e-mail thread below.
>
> Best,
> Brian
>
>
> Brian Bouterse
> Secure Open Systems Initiative
> 919.698.8796
>
>
>
>
>
> On May 15, 2009, at 11:11 PM, 杨杰 wrote:
>
> HI, I have one more question, which is a problem in our experiment. We are
>> now using the esxi with free license. When trying to take the operations
>> like vmcreate or vmcontrol, we receive an error command saying that we are
>> trying a restricted operation. The cmds are as shown:
>>
>> Error in 'Redh5' under host esxi2.p12.edu.cn: VM 'Redh5' can't be
>>> powered
>>> off
>>>
>>>
>> SOAP Fault:
>>>
>>> -----------
>>
>>>
>>> Fault string: fault.RestrictedVersion.summary
>>
>>>
>>>
>> The question has been submitted to the mailing list some days before. As
>> the reply, we confirmed the reason on the both conditions of non-license
>> and
>> free-license, but the operations still succeeded without license and
>> failed
>> with a free license. Some discussions in the vmware official forum show
>> that
>> the free license is restricted from modification operations.
>>
>> Have you encountered the problem ? And is there any way to solve the
>> problem
>> ?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Yang Jie（杨杰）
>>
>> Team of MRMSS, Xi'an Jiaotong University
>>
>> Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University
>>
>> TEL: +8613468883723;029-82665263 EXT.24
>>
>> MSN: xtyangjie2004@yahoo.com.cn
>>
>> E-mail: xtyangjie@gmail.com
>> Laurence J. Peter<
>> http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/laurence_j_peter.html>
>> - "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but
>> forgetting
>> where you heard it."
>>
>
>
--
Yang Jie（杨杰）
Team of MRMSS, Xi'an Jiaotong University
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University
TEL: +8613468883723;029-82665263 EXT.24
MSN: xtyangjie2004@yahoo.com.cn
E-mail: xtyangjie@gmail.com
P. J. O'Rourke<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/p/p_j_orourke.html>
- "Never fight an inanimate object."
Re: Is the free license restricted in ESXi ?
Posted by Brian Bouterse <bm...@ncsu.edu>.
The ESX 3i license given to you from the website, is that installed?
You can check under Configuration -> Licensed Features to make sure
you have your stuff licensed for N CPUs.
I've used vmcreate and vmcontrol operations with the ESX 3i and it
worked fine for me. Could you provide the commands which are
problematic? I don't see them in the e-mail thread below.
Best,
Brian
Brian Bouterse
Secure Open Systems Initiative
919.698.8796
On May 15, 2009, at 11:11 PM, 杨杰 wrote:
> HI, I have one more question, which is a problem in our experiment.
> We are
> now using the esxi with free license. When trying to take the
> operations
> like vmcreate or vmcontrol, we receive an error command saying that
> we are
> trying a restricted operation. The cmds are as shown:
>
>> Error in 'Redh5' under host esxi2.p12.edu.cn: VM 'Redh5' can't be
>> powered
>> off
>>
>
>> SOAP Fault:
>>
> -----------
>>
> Fault string: fault.RestrictedVersion.summary
>>
>
> The question has been submitted to the mailing list some days
> before. As
> the reply, we confirmed the reason on the both conditions of non-
> license and
> free-license, but the operations still succeeded without license and
> failed
> with a free license. Some discussions in the vmware official forum
> show that
> the free license is restricted from modification operations.
>
> Have you encountered the problem ? And is there any way to solve the
> problem
> ?
>
>
> --
> Yang Jie（杨杰）
>
> Team of MRMSS, Xi'an Jiaotong University
>
> Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong
> University
>
> TEL: +8613468883723;029-82665263 EXT.24
>
> MSN: xtyangjie2004@yahoo.com.cn
>
> E-mail: xtyangjie@gmail.com
> Laurence J. Peter<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/laurence_j_peter.html
> >
> - "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but
> forgetting
> where you heard it."