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Can you check if you're not missing steps at NetGear side like the Allowed Initiators for the existing LUN? See the following guide: Using ReadyNAS OS 6 as a VMware ESX Datastore (iSCSI) | Answer... See more...
Can you check if you're not missing steps at NetGear side like the Allowed Initiators for the existing LUN? See the following guide: Using ReadyNAS OS 6 as a VMware ESX Datastore (iSCSI) | Answer | NETGEAR Support And also check if you configured the vSphere side with all required settings: How to configure ESXi 6.5 for iSCSI Shared Storage – 4sysops
Yes, you can, see the following blog post for additional details: With vSphere 5.0 and HA can I share datastores across clusters? And both clusters are under the same vCenter? Because if the ... See more...
Yes, you can, see the following blog post for additional details: With vSphere 5.0 and HA can I share datastores across clusters? And both clusters are under the same vCenter? Because if the answer is no, you cannot use Storage I/O Control, since one of SIOC requirements is that the datastores must be managed by a single vCenter, see: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1022091
Short answer is yes, see: Is a VMware Tools Upgrade Required When Upgrading vSphere? - VMware vSphere Blog It allows virtual machines running older versions of VMware Tools to run in a suppo... See more...
Short answer is yes, see: Is a VMware Tools Upgrade Required When Upgrading vSphere? - VMware vSphere Blog It allows virtual machines running older versions of VMware Tools to run in a supported configuration on newer versions of ESXi. It allows virtual machines running newer versions of VMware Tools to run in a supported configuration on older versions of ESX/ESXi. But, did you consider also apply at least the latest 5.5 patches in your host instead of upgrade only the VMware Tools? And what about the server firmware version? Are you already running the latest version available from vendor?
vRealize Automation can provide a self-service portal for users request virtual machines and other services based on policies (including approval policy) from a pre-defined pool of resources, and... See more...
vRealize Automation can provide a self-service portal for users request virtual machines and other services based on policies (including approval policy) from a pre-defined pool of resources, and all the deployment of the virtual machine, including network settings and even installed software can be automated, and the user do not need access to the vCenter console. If that is the solution you're looking for, vRealize Automation is for you. But there are other solutions like vRealize Orchestrator and vCloud Director that can also automate the deployment of virtual machines.
There is no vCPU limit for the paid version, then you can assign up to 128 vCPU, but depending of the virtual machine virtual hardware version you may have some limitation. To be able to assign 4... See more...
There is no vCPU limit for the paid version, then you can assign up to 128 vCPU, but depending of the virtual machine virtual hardware version you may have some limitation. To be able to assign 48 vCPU your virtual machine must be running virtual hardware version 9 or later, see: Hardware Features Available with Virtual Machine Compatibility Settings
Don't see a problem in run multiple VDP on the same cluster, depending of your vSphere edition, just create a DRS rule to keep VDP running on different hosts. Keep in mind that since all VDP appl... See more...
Don't see a problem in run multiple VDP on the same cluster, depending of your vSphere edition, just create a DRS rule to keep VDP running on different hosts. Keep in mind that since all VDP appliances and VMs are running on the same VSAN datastore, the backups job can impact production workload performance.
You need to use array based replication to protect MSCS virtual machine, see: Protecting Microsoft Cluster Server and Fault Tolerant Virtual Machines vSphere Replication support RDM in virtua... See more...
You need to use array based replication to protect MSCS virtual machine, see: Protecting Microsoft Cluster Server and Fault Tolerant Virtual Machines vSphere Replication support RDM in virtual mode only, but do not support replication of virtual machines with multi-write mode like MSCS nodes, see: VMware Knowledge Base
Based in your appliance .ovf file, you're using virtual hardware version 7 (vmx-07), and the virtual hardware version 7 is limited to 8 vCPU, see the following VMware KB article to configuration ... See more...
Based in your appliance .ovf file, you're using virtual hardware version 7 (vmx-07), and the virtual hardware version 7 is limited to 8 vCPU, see the following VMware KB article to configuration limits to each hardware version: Hardware features available with virtual machine compatibility settings (2051652) | VMware KB If you want more than 8 vCPU, you will need to upgrade the virtual hardware version, but if that OVA is a vendor appliance, check with the vendor if they will support that deployment after the virtual hardware upgrade, and always take a snapshot before the upgrade, just in case you need to rollback the change.
So, that explain the problem, because to be able to manage an ESXi 6.5 you will need vCenter at version 6.5 or higher. Another problem is that if you upgrade your vCenter to version 6.5 you will ... See more...
So, that explain the problem, because to be able to manage an ESXi 6.5 you will need vCenter at version 6.5 or higher. Another problem is that if you upgrade your vCenter to version 6.5 you will not be able to manage the 5.0 hosts, since vCenter 6.5 supports only hosts version 5.5 or higher.
Check if the following William Lam blog post helps: http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2015/09/which-platform-services-controller-psc-is-my-vcenter-server-pointing-to.html
Assuming you will need allow multiple VLAN traffic, you just need configure the Cisco switch port as trunk port. I also recommend you configure port-fast (spanning-tree portfast). I always recomm... See more...
Assuming you will need allow multiple VLAN traffic, you just need configure the Cisco switch port as trunk port. I also recommend you configure port-fast (spanning-tree portfast). I always recommend consider use LBT instead of LAG (with IP Hash Load Balancing), and the following blog post explain some reasons why to consider LBT: http://longwhiteclouds.com/2012/04/10/etherchannel-and-ip-hash-or-load-based-teaming/
You will need to upgrade your SRM to version 6.5.1, since your current SRM is not compatible with the vCenter 6.5 U1, see: VMware Product Interoperability Matrices The following VMware KB art... See more...
You will need to upgrade your SRM to version 6.5.1, since your current SRM is not compatible with the vCenter 6.5 U1, see: VMware Product Interoperability Matrices The following VMware KB article shows the correct upgrade sequence: Update sequence for vSphere 6.5 and its compatible VMware products (2147289) | VMware KB
Can you confirm if that volume is replicated by RecoverPoint? If yes, check the following: http://www.mikes.eu/index.php/how-to/254-how-to-resize-a-lun-that-is-already-replicated-by-emc-recoverpo... See more...
Can you confirm if that volume is replicated by RecoverPoint? If yes, check the following: http://www.mikes.eu/index.php/how-to/254-how-to-resize-a-lun-that-is-already-replicated-by-emc-recoverpoint.html
Keep in mind that if your hosts are all on the same subnet and your gateway goes offline it will not cause a network partition (or host isolation) since the heartbeat communication between master... See more...
Keep in mind that if your hosts are all on the same subnet and your gateway goes offline it will not cause a network partition (or host isolation) since the heartbeat communication between master and slave will continue to flow every second, because of that I don't see your idea as a viable option. See the following link for additional HA fundamentals: https://ha.yellow-bricks.com/fundamental_concepts.html
PSP Fixed is not alua-aware, see some references: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/hp-enterprise-virtual-array-family-vsphere-c… http://www.r... See more...
PSP Fixed is not alua-aware, see some references: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/hp-enterprise-virtual-array-family-vsphere-c… http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp5425.pdf
Unless I'm missing something, after you deploy the OVA in your environment you can clone that virtual machine without problem, no matter if VM was built from scratch or from a OVA/OVF deployment.
Check how is the host isolation response configured, see: VMware High Availability host isolation response types (1030320) | VMware KB
Check the first procedure on the following blog post: Updating vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 to Update 2 - VirtuallyBoring
The vCenter database do not include SSO configuration, since that configuration is stored on a different database, so you will need to do the SSO database backup separately, see how: Backing up a... See more...
The vCenter database do not include SSO configuration, since that configuration is stored on a different database, so you will need to do the SSO database backup separately, see how: Backing up and restoring the VMware vCenter Single Sign-On 5.5 configuration (2057353) | VMware KB You can always export the vDS configuration in case you need restore only the vDS configuration instead of the whole vCenter database, see: Exporting/importing/restoring Distributed Switch configs using vSphere Web Client (2034602) | VMware KB Another important thing to backup is the vCenter SSL certificates located at: %allusersprofile%\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter For additional vCenter upgrade best practices see the official documentation: Best Practices for vCenter Server Upgrades
The error messages looks like is related to the "compression", so please check if the following blog post helps: http://www.diyar.online/2016/12/vmware-vsphere-6-5-ovf-package-compressed-disks-no... See more...
The error messages looks like is related to the "compression", so please check if the following blog post helps: http://www.diyar.online/2016/12/vmware-vsphere-6-5-ovf-package-compressed-disks-not-supported-ovf-import/