Different versions of vSphere are supported at the protected in recovery site and as you have it configured, the recommendation is to have the newer version at the recovery site. The reason for t...
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Different versions of vSphere are supported at the protected in recovery site and as you have it configured, the recommendation is to have the newer version at the recovery site. The reason for this, and to be cautious about different versions, has to do with virtual hardware versions. vSphere hosts can run VMs with earlier virtual hardware versions, but not later (one's released after the vSphere version). You want to make sure that your VMs will run on the host at the recovery site. If you use a later version of vSphere at the recovery, as long as you don't deploy new VMs while running there, or if you do, that you use a virtual hardware version that is compatible with the hosts at what was your protected site, you will never run into the problem of trying to recover a VM with hardware version that is incompatible with vSphere. Questions: Can anyone confirm supportability with regards to different version of vSphere at protected and recovery site? - Yes Are there any nuances related to having different versions of vSphere at protected and recovery site? - See above Will we be able to successfully failover to recovery site, reprotect VMs back to protected site, and fail back to protected site without issue? - Yes (see above) Does this make sense?