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lucasitteam · ‎07-02-2020

Just for others to take lessons from this. Joreg you also mentioned this. I have built the ESXi 6.7 host using Dell ISO Green line -Driver version, Yellow line Firmware version. By default/...

Just for others to take lessons from this. Joreg you also mentioned this. I have built the ESXi 6.7 host using Dell ISO Green line -Driver version, Yellow line Firmware version. By default/using ISO CD combination is not matching. Joreg, I have already have to report. Thanks a lot. Hope others learn from this thread.

lucasitteam · ‎07-02-2020

Sorry Joerg, I though I gave you above. I was wrong. 0000:b4:00.0 14e4:16d7 14e4:4141 vmnic4 0000:b4:00.1 14e4:16d7 14e4:4141 vmnic5 By the way I do not see a place to "iDRAC -> Troubles...

Sorry Joerg, I though I gave you above. I was wrong. 0000:b4:00.0 14e4:16d7 14e4:4141 vmnic4 0000:b4:00.1 14e4:16d7 14e4:4141 vmnic5 By the way I do not see a place to "iDRAC -> Troubleshooting/SupportAssist." to get this information. Though it is not important. This thread only tell me - I did nothing wrong. It is how the world is structure. I have to be careful in future. Thanks Joerg and vGuy Hope others learn lesson from this and do not end up in Resume generating events.

lucasitteam · ‎07-02-2020

I spend my time i finding 214.4.32.0. My GSS engineer was trying to give super explanation how they have moved the dots and took no responsibility about this data. Even though it is on their webs...

I spend my time i finding 214.4.32.0. My GSS engineer was trying to give super explanation how they have moved the dots and took no responsibility about this data. Even though it is on their website. This firmware version is not there on Vmware website. This is on dell website and you see only on iDRAC on via esxcli. To me . Dell says "Hello my name is Firmware" and VMware says "Hallo, ich bin Ware" As an engineer where should I read this and how do i make sense of this. Should I always burn fingers and create resume generating events because someone choose to play blame games.

lucasitteam · ‎07-01-2020

Joerg, you are right. I have installed ESXi6.7 from Dell ISO. And now Driver and firmware combination is not matching. In fact the firmware number do not even match with the firmware reported b...

Joerg, you are right. I have installed ESXi6.7 from Dell ISO. And now Driver and firmware combination is not matching. In fact the firmware number do not even match with the firmware reported by Dell. This is worst thing. It gives me a strong feeling driver is owned by VMware. This also explains why Driver is not there on Dell site irrespective it is async or not. NOTE: For recommendations on latest combination of supported driver and firmware refer to OEM vendor matrix. VMware Knowledge Base But the driver is not here on Dell site. This sound funny. VMware Support suggests we are not responsible for Driver and Dell says we only offer firmware. This is chicken and egg problem but at the cost of customer money.

lucasitteam · ‎07-01-2020

Andre, you mentioned it right. When I upgrade the firmware. The firmware and driver combination was not matching as per the HCL. But then are you saying driver is owned by VMware. It is only whe...

Andre, you mentioned it right. When I upgrade the firmware. The firmware and driver combination was not matching as per the HCL. But then are you saying driver is owned by VMware. It is only when I upgrade my firmware, 25 Gbps NICs are seen and I did not felt the need to upgrade the driver because driver was already on HCL What is does vendor async driver means?

lucasitteam · ‎07-01-2020

Hallo , I'm curious know this. I was bit hesitant to ask this but few colleagues is office thinks I'm did not follow the right procedure and blame gaming is starting. We have Dell R730 Ser...

Hallo , I'm curious know this. I was bit hesitant to ask this but few colleagues is office thinks I'm did not follow the right procedure and blame gaming is starting. We have Dell R730 Server. It has both 10 Gbps and 25 Gbps NICs. Initially only 10 Gbps card was used but then we decided to move the migrate to 25 Gbps. So our network team patched the cables and I inserted in all ESXi hosts. But the links showed down. After some troubleshooting we though that Network card drivers must be updated. I went to dell site and searched for the driver. Driver was not there. There is only firmware. So I download the firmware, update the firmware and the Link was up. So I repeated it on all 10 servers. After one week, 4 ESXi servers lost network connectivity, vSphere HA got triggered and shutdown the VMs. Issue got escalated big time. We asked VMware Support. GSS concluded the Network card was a problem. We went to dell. Dell asked me, why did you not upgraded the driver. I asked where is the driver. He said driver is owned by VMware. VMware says they do not own neither firmware or driver. My question - When the card is owned by Dell, am I wrong when I went to Dell site to update the firmware or you think I should first go to Vmware site , then update the driver and then firmware.

lucasitteam · ‎11-19-2019

ok, you not only mark yourself with correct answer but also gave incorrect link. It is big people do small mistake. Cheers.

lucasitteam · ‎11-19-2019

Hallo Team, anyone where can help/advice from where I can start learning more about VVD. I'm already VCAP-DCD. I've access to partner portal. I checked this link but most of the videos are ...

Hallo Team, anyone where can help/advice from where I can start learning more about VVD. I'm already VCAP-DCD. I've access to partner portal. I checked this link but most of the videos are VMware Validated Designs - YouTube private. Any suggestion. There used to be HOL but I think it is no longer valid. Thanks a lot.

lucasitteam · ‎10-30-2019

Ah! Found out. I have over-riding the Restart scenario but it is disabling APD/PDL

lucasitteam · ‎10-30-2019

Thanks a lot. I overlooked. Im interested/Curious why it is overridding.

lucasitteam · ‎10-30-2019

Hallo, Sorry it did not helped. I checked HA and DRS settings. Nothing I could find. Thanks for advice.

lucasitteam · ‎10-29-2019

Hallo All, I have configured VCMP on cluster. But I see few VMs are not getting this settings. I shared VM01 and VM02 below Both the VM are part of same cluster What could be the reas...

Hallo All, I have configured VCMP on cluster. But I see few VMs are not getting this settings. I shared VM01 and VM02 below Both the VM are part of same cluster What could be the reason I see different settings per VM? Here is what I see below. VM-01 (Good one) VM-02 (Settings not enabled)

lucasitteam · ‎09-30-2019

Thanks tayfundeger for your time and the answer I was looking for. So far I also found highly reliable results. Meanwhile I found few interesting articles. In case anyone was wondering what ...

Thanks tayfundeger for your time and the answer I was looking for. So far I also found highly reliable results. Meanwhile I found few interesting articles. In case anyone was wondering what caveats daphnissov was referring, Below articles will shared those inform. https://faststorage.eu/vsphere-replication-pros-and-cons/ Using Replication in vSphere 6 | JonKensy.com

lucasitteam · ‎09-30-2019

FT is not sure. Our processor do not support FT. SQL Server AAG license very expensive fur us. (I can imagine what are you thinking) But it is a reality.

lucasitteam · ‎09-30-2019

Hallo All, need expert guidance. we have some critical servers which we must protect for period of 2 months. This is the busiest period of our business. We have a backup solution. But restor...

Hallo All, need expert guidance. we have some critical servers which we must protect for period of 2 months. This is the busiest period of our business. We have a backup solution. But restore times are not matching the SLA. What do you suggest? Should we vSphere replication (it is part of Enterprise Plus license) I do not find a document which states MS SQL server is not supported. Amy comments or expert guidance. Though our DBA team is having their own strategy but the question comes in case OS gets corrupted or delete. I feel vRA is best solution for it.

lucasitteam · ‎08-20-2019

Thanks @daphnissov for writing the migration book. Excellent resource. May I ask one question on it, I just do know if this is the right place for it. We are migrating using Inter-C-02. Sin...

Thanks @daphnissov for writing the migration book. Excellent resource. May I ask one question on it, I just do know if this is the right place for it. We are migrating using Inter-C-02. Since this is storage vMotion but using FC traffic will it use VMNIC (phy nics) or FC SAN Switches?

lucasitteam · ‎03-22-2019

Hallo Guys, need some help. I'm trying to isolate replication traffic using a dedicated network card. I think I'm doing something wrong. Hope someone can help. Scenario I have single ...

Hallo Guys, need some help. I'm trying to isolate replication traffic using a dedicated network card. I think I'm doing something wrong. Hope someone can help. Scenario I have single vCenter spread across two sites. Sites are not far from each other. So it is a single Layer2 network. No routing. We have 2 clusters viz.Cluster-Site-A and Cluster-Site-B Replication appliance is deployed in the cluster-Site-A with following IP Details 1. 192.168.130.130 (Management IP) 2. 10.10.20.130 (configured as Incoming Storage traffic) 3. 10.10.20.130 ... 104 (VMK IP Configured on 4 ESXi Host ) Additional replication appliance is deployed in the cluster-Site-B Replication appliance is deployed in the cluster-Site-B with the following IP Details 1. 192.168.130.140 (Management IP) 2. 10.10.20.140 (configured as Incoming Storage traffic) 3. 10.10.20.140 ... 104 (VMK IP Configured on 4 ESXi Host ) I see all connectivity and replication going on. The most strange thing is, traffic is moving across all NICs. I have configured 2 Nics for VM traffic I have configured 2 Nics for vMotion and Management I have configured 1 Nic for vRA (appliance plus VMkernel) Attached is the reference image.

lucasitteam · ‎11-15-2017

Dear Bob, Thanks a lot for taking time to explain in detailed the challenges. For my understanding, if I wish to have N+1 capability even during the maintenance window you should have minimum...

Dear Bob, Thanks a lot for taking time to explain in detailed the challenges. For my understanding, if I wish to have N+1 capability even during the maintenance window you should have minimum 5 node vSAN cluster? Do we also need to consider Slack space when we are considering rebuild capacity?

lucasitteam · ‎11-14-2017

i'm unable to understand why 4 nodes are recommended for maximum availability. I understand for FTT=1, you need 3 nodes (2n+1). But then design guide states, if ESXi host fails you cannot rebu...

i'm unable to understand why 4 nodes are recommended for maximum availability. I understand for FTT=1, you need 3 nodes (2n+1). But then design guide states, if ESXi host fails you cannot rebuild component. Quoted "The implications of this are that if a node fails, vSAN cannot rebuild components, nor can it provision new VMs that tolerate failures" For example there are Node1, Node2 and Node3. For simplicity there is only one VM is running on it. By Design there are 2 replicas of the data and a witness, and these must all reside on different hosts. Assume, Node 3 is holding Witness, if Node 3 is down what will be impact? I believe VM will continue to run but then witness will not be rebuild right? Suppose we go with Four node cluster and put Node-3 into maintenance will it move the witness to Node-4? There is statement in "essential-virtual-san - second edition book " chapter -09. I unable to understand why 8 nodes and not 7 nodes. I'm sorry unless you have read the book only Author of the book can explain. Minimum of six hosts to support RAID-6. Additional host to allow for full recovery and re-protection (self-healing) after a failure, which means seven hosts minimum. Additional host to allow for recovery and re-protection during maintenance, which means eight hosts minimum.

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Re: Driver at VMware site and Firmware at Dell site ;)

Re: Driver at VMware site and Firmware at Dell site ;)

Re: Driver at VMware site and Firmware at Dell site ;)

Re: Driver at VMware site and Firmware at Dell site ;)

Re: Driver at VMware site and Firmware at Dell site ;)

Driver at VMware site and Firmware at Dell site ;)

Re: Where to start learning

Where to start learning

Re: VMCP Not shown for few VMs

Re: VMCP Not shown for few VMs

Re: VMCP Not shown for few VMs

VMCP Not shown for few VMs

Re: vSphere Replication for Critical Applications

Re: vSphere Replication for Critical Applications

vSphere Replication for Critical Applications

Re: vSphere Replication - Isolated networks

Traffic isolation using VMKernel

Re: Consider 4 or more nodes for the vSAN cluster design for maximum availability

Consider 4 or more nodes for the vSAN cluster design for maximum availability