vSAN 8 witness node: Host Image Profile Acceptance Level set to "Community Supported"

[peetz]

Greetings,

I deployed vSAN 8.0 witness appliances in my lab, the one for OSA and the one for ESA (just out of curiosity). After adding the machines as hosts to vCenter 8.0 I noticed that their "Host Image Profile Acceptance Level" is set to "Community Supported". I have never seen that before. I compared to an existing vSAN 7.0 witness appliance host, and their the acceptance level is "Partner Supported".

Technically it should be possible to configure the acceptance level of a witness appliance to the highest level "VMware-certified", because it contains only VMware certified software packages by default.

So why is it set to the lowest level "Community Supported" with vSAN 8.0? This has for sure a security impact...

@depping : Can you comment on this?

Andreas

[depping]

I haven't even noticed myself, will have a look and ask the team.

[depping]

Bug filed and escalated to the Product Manager, PM agreed, this should be fixed asap.

[depping]

Got a reply from engineering, you are allowed to change it back, and they are working on fixing this for a future release.

[peetz]

Okay, good to know, thanks!