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PowerPath Virtual Appliance Now Available - Simplified License Management and Reporting for PowerPath/VE
PowerPath Virtual Appliance is a VM-based virtual appliance. The PowerPath Virtual Appliance is installed and configured separately from the PowerPath/VE multi-pathing product. It provides simplified RTOOLS deployment and introduces enhanced license management for PowerPath/VE for VMware vSphere.
New Feature Summary
EMC PowerPath Virtual Appliance 1.2 provides license automation to support PowerPath/VE 5.9 for VMware vSphere. The following are new features:
- Browser-based GUI for administration
Provides graphical user interface for configuring, administering, and using Virtual Appliance.
Through the interface, an administrator can perform functions such as:
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- Add PowerPath/VE licenses to the Virtual Appliance
- Configure connections to one or more vCenter Servers
- View PowerPath/VE license needs, inventory, and details
- View and export PowerPath/VE license usage
- View VMware ESX and PowerPath/VE host details
- Simplified user licensing experience
Simplifies license deployment and management for PowerPath/VE for VMware vSphere. It provides automated deployment of licenses and keeps PowerPath/VE hosts licensed without the need for user-initiated 45-day host contact using rpowermt command.
PowerPath/VE Trial licensing for PowerPath/VE hosts
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- Provides 45-days trial licensing option.
- The PowerPath Virtual Appliance comes with a 45-day trial license period for an unlimited number of PowerPath/VE 5.9 hosts. On addition of Temporary or Permanent licenses, the PowerPath/VE 5.9 hosts that are using Trial licenses will transition to the respective licenses added.
- Vmware vCenter integration
- PowerPath Virtual Appliance integrates with VMware vCenter.
- The EMC PowerPath Virtual Appliance communicates with one or more vCenter servers to obtain vSphere host information and credentials for PowerPath/VE license management purposes.
JoGen1
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February 7th, 2014 14:00
Hi Neil, will the PP/VE 1.2 virtual appliance serve PP 5.4 P2 licenses to ESXi 4.1 hosts and 5.9 to ESXi 5.5 hosts?
Can it be installed on vCSA, vCenter Server Appliance?
Our old vm guest license server (ELM) serving PP/VE 5.4P2 for our ESXi 4.1 clusters was inadvertently decommissioned.
We need to build another license server and we are just now building a ESXi 5.5 cluster.
I have read a lot of documents - we can only have one license server - we need to serve licenses to ESXi 4.1 and 5.5 simultaneously as we move to 5.5. Is the virtual appliance the way to go and where should it be installed?
I know I have to re-host our existing 5.4 licenses .lic and I only want to do it once.
thank you for any help you can give.
Jo
Butch777
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February 10th, 2014 06:00
Jo - thanks for your post. Unfortunately the Virtual Appliance 1.2 cannot serve licenses to both PPVE 5.4 and PPVE 5.9. The Virtual Appliance 1.2 can report on all PPVE license types (from 5.4 up to 5.9) but it can only serve licenses for PPVE 5.9.
I'll have to defer to the more technical folks on this forum as to how, but it looks like you will need two types of license servers for this environment, an existing one for the 5.4 environment and a new Virtual Appliance 1.2 for the 5.9 licenses.
The other option is to re-host the 5.4 licenses using unserved licenses (ie, without a license server).
Bob Lonadier
PowerPath Product Manager
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February 10th, 2014 07:00
Hi Jo,
As Robert mentions, Virtual Appliance 1.2 doesn't serve licenses to PPVE 5.4 hosts, but it will report on them.
Also, take into account these limitations when managing your 5.4 hosts with the new vApp:
Inconsistencies in display of Node Locked and Master licenses: PowerPath/VE 5.4 hosts with Node Locked and Master licenses might not be displayed correctly in the web console. The EMC PowerPath Virtual Appliance cannot distinguish between Node Locked and Master licenses. It can distinguish between Permanent and Expiring licenses.
Inconsistencies in display of Served licenses:
Regards
victory_is_mine
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September 20th, 2014 07:00
Does it make sense to use vApp with only three ESXi hosts and PPVE5.9? Or I would be better off with unserved licenses?
nigelvenables
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November 13th, 2014 10:00
Can EMC please document the vCenter permissions needed by the user that logs into vCenter from Virtual Appliance.
It seems RO is not enough, it returns a host count of zero, can we have a list of the minimum permissions?