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Do the workflows run and complete? There is a known bug that doesn't update the request information and there is a workaround. The other thing you can do is reset the vRO server in server configu... See more...
Do the workflows run and complete? There is a known bug that doesn't update the request information and there is a workaround. The other thing you can do is reset the vRO server in server configuration.
Hi vSohill‌, Greetings! Complete Site is considered as a Fault Domain in a vSAN Stretched Cluster. This means, the VMs will continue to run on the same Site till the time the complete site ... See more...
Hi vSohill‌, Greetings! Complete Site is considered as a Fault Domain in a vSAN Stretched Cluster. This means, the VMs will continue to run on the same Site till the time the complete site is not down. When complete site is down, then VMs will be restarted on another site. HA is required if you want your VMs to be restarted automatically in case of a Host Failure on a Site or a complete Site Failure. Affinity Rules are required to make sure that HA follows those rules while restarting VMs on the same site or across sites. You need to configure Affinity Rules in such a way that Site-A VMs are grouped with Site-A hosts and Site-B VMs are grouped with Site-B hosts. You should always configure Soft Rules. (More info on Page 43-44 of http://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/products/vsan/vmware-virtual-san-6.2-stretched-cluster-…‌) Let me try to explain it with your scenario: Site_A : 4 Hosts (1st Fault Domain) Site_B : 4 Hosts (2nd Fault Domain) Failure Scenario - Site_A with 1 Host Failure i.e 3 Hosts are up. Result - VMs which were running on the failed host will be restarted on on the other 3 hosts automatically provided the HA is enabled on the cluster. If HA is not enabled, you have to manually restart the VMs on the other 3 Hosts. Hope this answers your query. _________________________ Was your question answered correctly? If so, please remember to mark your question as "Correct" or "Helpful" when you get the correct answer. This helps others searching for a similar issue. Cheers! -Shivam
This is the vSphere CP v3.6 , please try and import this content pack from the content pack ui. Also when you upgrade vRLI next please keep an eye on the CP and let me know if you see similar ... See more...
This is the vSphere CP v3.6 , please try and import this content pack from the content pack ui. Also when you upgrade vRLI next please keep an eye on the CP and let me know if you see similar behavior, this is the first I have heard of the CP disappearing post upgrade , so I would like to know more. Hope this helps. Thanks.
Hello, Unfortunately you have picked a content pack with known performance issues. If you look at the extracted field definitions in the content pack it will give you an idea of why the querie... See more...
Hello, Unfortunately you have picked a content pack with known performance issues. If you look at the extracted field definitions in the content pack it will give you an idea of why the queries are slow, its due to the complex regexes. Unfortunately PAN OS has not updated the content pack in over a year and therefore do not take advantage of the features we put in ; in the content pack area to improve query performance. Hope this helps.
Hi, Log Insight does not support generating reports from dashboards and saving it as PDF format at this time. You can vote for this feature here - Send dashboard as PDF to recipient on sche... See more...
Hi, Log Insight does not support generating reports from dashboards and saving it as PDF format at this time. You can vote for this feature here - Send dashboard as PDF to recipient on scheduled basis You can open( or create) your query in Interactive Analytics and Export event results or Export Chart Data as csv or json and use Excel or Word to open the generated file and then save as a PDF file at this time. Thanks.
Hi Marius, When you launch the migrate wizard and select 'Change datastore' you will see an 'Advanced' button. That gives you the option of placing the individual disks and config files on spe... See more...
Hi Marius, When you launch the migrate wizard and select 'Change datastore' you will see an 'Advanced' button. That gives you the option of placing the individual disks and config files on specific datastores.
Yes vRLI stores events in compressed format. When the event is passed through the vRealize Log Insight ingestion pipeline, the following steps occur: A keyword index is created or updated. T... See more...
Yes vRLI stores events in compressed format. When the event is passed through the vRealize Log Insight ingestion pipeline, the following steps occur: A keyword index is created or updated. The index is stored in proprietary format on local disk. Machine learning is applied to cluster events. The event is stored in compressed proprietary format on the local disk in a bucket . Hope this helps.
You can power off the VM to change its properties but the small size is the lowest supported configuration for a vRealize Log Insight appliance. Also once a VM is created you can only go higher n... See more...
You can power off the VM to change its properties but the small size is the lowest supported configuration for a vRealize Log Insight appliance. Also once a VM is created you can only go higher not lower for these config changes. Also the configs minimums are based on what the vRLI appliance needs at a minimum to function effectively. Hope this helps.
I think you are referring to the maximum limit of 600 GB for a Disk Group Cache in All-Flash vSAN configuration. I believe 600 GB for Write Buffer in All-Flash Configuration is quite a good numbe... See more...
I think you are referring to the maximum limit of 600 GB for a Disk Group Cache in All-Flash vSAN configuration. I believe 600 GB for Write Buffer in All-Flash Configuration is quite a good number and we have never heard a customer “complain” about this limit. In your case, you want to use your 1.5 TB NVMe SSD disk for Cache (Write Buffer only) in All-Flash configuration which I believe is not a good idea as the Cache Algorithm (Write Buffer only) would not be using this drive entirely. I would suggest to buy small size SSD drives (may be 600 GB) and use your 1.5 TB NVMe SSDs for Capacity Tier. On the other side, the thumb rule of 10% cache is actually derived after exhaustive calculations and by considering different type of workloads. Also, this 10% cache to consumed capacity is a minimum recommendation as per vSAN Design and Sizing Guide‌‌‌ for both Hybrid and All-Flash vSAN configurations. However, if you want, you can have more than 10% Cache as well but again there is a maximum limit of 600 GB for a Disk Group Cache in All-Flash vSAN configuration. There is no such limit for vSAN Hybrid configuration. On a side note, this thumb rule of 10% cache is not as per the Total Capacity. It is based on the consumed capacity. Both hybrid vSAN clusters and All-Flash vSAN clusters carry a ‘‘10% of consumed capacity’’ recommendation for the flash cache layer. You may have a look at below blog posts for more details on this thumb rule of 10% Cache to Consumed Capacity. The 10% rule for VSAN caching, calculate it on a VM basis not disk capacity! - Yellow Bricks‌ Hope this is helpful. _________________________ Was your question answered correctly? If so, please remember to mark your question as "Correct" or "Helpful" when you get the correct answer. This helps others searching for a similar issue. Cheers! -Shivam
Greetings! Yes, mixed workloads are very much supported with VMware vSAN. You can run Virtual Desktops and Virtual Servers on the same vSAN platform. The only thing to consider is vSAN Lice... See more...
Greetings! Yes, mixed workloads are very much supported with VMware vSAN. You can run Virtual Desktops and Virtual Servers on the same vSAN platform. The only thing to consider is vSAN Licensing. vSAN for Desktop licensing is available for customers using vSAN exclusively for a virtual desktop infrastructure. While this limits the use of vSAN to virtual desktop workloads only, vSAN for Desktop provides unique pricing and packaging options to help further reduce the cost of a virtual desktop infrastructure while enabling the benefits and performance of a distributed storage platform. vSAN for Desktop is also available in the Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise editions. However, it is priced per-named user or per-concurrent user (CCU) in a virtual desktop environment and sold in packs of 10 and 100 licenses. vSAN for Desktop Advanced licenses are included with VMware Horizon® Advanced Edition and Enterprise Edition. For more details on vSAN Licensing - https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vsan/vmware-vsan-62-licensing-guide.pdf Hope this is helpful. _________________________ Was your question answered correctly? If so, please remember to mark your question as "Correct" or "Helpful" when you get the correct answer. This helps others searching for a similar issue. Cheers! -Shivam
If your USB flash drive fails and you need to revert to the clone you will lose the following: 1) any update to ESXi that you might have installed to the USB flash drive, as I'm sure you alrea... See more...
If your USB flash drive fails and you need to revert to the clone you will lose the following: 1) any update to ESXi that you might have installed to the USB flash drive, as I'm sure you already knew but just to be complete.  So anytime you update to a new version of ESXi you'll have to reclone.  There are better options and I'll mention those in a minute. 2) any update to the VMware tools that you may manually pull down.  I believe you can now can now avoid this by configuring to always pull the tools from the Web, but I haven't tried it myself so try at your own risk.  Again, there is a better option that avoids this. The above two happen in response to discrete actions that you will be aware of so you can reclone but it will be an extra step when you upgrade.  If your OEM supports it you can purchase RAIDed USB flash or SD card solution.  RAID 1 is used so all writes are duplicated but all reads are directed only one USB device.  The second device is effectively a hot standby clone constantly updated.  This solution solves both of the above issues plus the next one. 3) most importantly, any changes to your ESXi local configuration state that you have made.  These changes happen as configure and reconfigure networking, storage and other aspects of your host to optimize performance and etc. The above solution of RAIDed USB flash or SD cards handles this third exposure as well but for the manual reclone option that you are currently using it is probably impracticable to reclone every time you change the configuration state.  However you can pull most of this state out of your host using host profiles but note that you will still need to reclone whenever you update ESXi or the VMware tools..  Ordinarily pulling a host profile requires an operation from VC and might be scriptable there.  If not and you are feeling adventurous read on ... ************************************* Bleeding edge ... try at your own risk *************** Host profiles can be extracted and applied at ESXi command line using a tool "esxhpcli".  The tool has a terse but adequate help.  You need to generate and save both the host profile and the answer file.  You can run a cron job to pull those every night and save them on a network disk.  If the day comes when you need to use the clone simply boot from it, manually pull down the host profile (it will not be in a format compatible with VC) and apply it with esxhpcli.  Don't forget the answer file.  Also, realize that you'll need to first manually configure to get to the network share with, for example, esxcfg-nas or esxcli. Alternatively you could manually copy the proper host profile and answer file while the clone is attached to another host.  If an ESXi host you'll need to remove the device from USB passthrough using "esxcli hardware usb passthrough device" commands.  Good luck!
I have replied to your post - Re: VSAN Streched Cluster on nested host I believe this is also related to the ESXi version not supported with vSAN Stretched Cluster. _________________________ ... See more...
I have replied to your post - Re: VSAN Streched Cluster on nested host I believe this is also related to the ESXi version not supported with vSAN Stretched Cluster. _________________________ Was your question answered correctly? If so, please remember to mark your question as "Correct" or "Helpful" when you get the correct/helpful answer. This helps others searching for a similar issue. Cheers! -Shivam
Ah ok, here is the problem - vSAN Stretched Cluster is not supported with ESXi 6.0 GA Bulid 2494585 vSAN Stretched Cluster came into existence from vSphere 6 update 1 onwards. If you want 6.0... See more...
Ah ok, here is the problem - vSAN Stretched Cluster is not supported with ESXi 6.0 GA Bulid 2494585 vSAN Stretched Cluster came into existence from vSphere 6 update 1 onwards. If you want 6.0 version - I would suggest you to download latest ESXi 6.0 version i.e. ESXi 6.0 U2 - Download VMware vSAN (6.2) If you want 6.5 version - Download VMware vSAN (6.5) _________________________ Was your question answered correctly? If so, please remember to mark your question as "Correct" or "Helpful" when you get the correct answer. This helps others searching for a similar issue. Cheers! -Shivam
Is it possible that you deployed the appliance from a direct vSphere Client connection to the ESXi host?  If so, please try deploy using the Web Client instead. Otherwise, maybe something wrong ... See more...
Is it possible that you deployed the appliance from a direct vSphere Client connection to the ESXi host?  If so, please try deploy using the Web Client instead. Otherwise, maybe something wrong with the specific OVF so you could try downloading a new copy. It should be ready to register with the PSC right after deployment.
@gamexg, there is currently no support for datastores on USB storage devices.  See KB 2145210 (vSphere SSD and Flash Device Support (2145210) | VMware KB) for a full explanation of what is suppor... See more...
@gamexg, there is currently no support for datastores on USB storage devices.  See KB 2145210 (vSphere SSD and Flash Device Support (2145210) | VMware KB) for a full explanation of what is supported.  In the terminology of the KB a "vmfs [filesystem]" is a "datastore" and the relevant text is: SSD and Flash Device Use Cases A non-exhaustive survey of various usage models in vSphere environment are listed below. ... Regular datastore A (local) SSD is used instead of a hard disk drive. This usage model has been supported since vSphere 6.0 for SATA and SCSI connected SSDs. There is currently no support for USB connected SSDs or for low end flash devices regardless of connection type. ... Although you may have been able to create a VMFS filesystem on a USB storage device in vSphere 6.0 by using the Host Client the result was unsupported even in 6.0.
ESXi regularly runs a script to make any changes persistent, by writing them to the bootbank. I think it's once every hour but I may be wrong on that. You can also do this manually by running: ... See more...
ESXi regularly runs a script to make any changes persistent, by writing them to the bootbank. I think it's once every hour but I may be wrong on that. You can also do this manually by running: /sbin/auto-backup.sh
Greetings! Let's go step by step to this query: 1) If not already done, please have a complete vSAN analysis done by VMware team so that It is sure that the issue you faced was due to not ... See more...
Greetings! Let's go step by step to this query: 1) If not already done, please have a complete vSAN analysis done by VMware team so that It is sure that the issue you faced was due to not having enough capacity in the vSAN Cache Tier. 2) As per VMware sizing and design guideline - Ideally the cache size should be big enough to hold the repeatedly used blocks in the workload. We call this the active working set. However, it is not easy to obtain the active working set of the workload because typical workloads show variations with respect to time, changing the working set and associated cache requirements. 3) Looking at your environment specification, It is quite sure that the cache is not enough for Active Working Set and yes, your plan to move from 2 Disk Group per host to 5 Disk Group per host makes absolute sense as It will add more capacity to the cache tier of vSAN datastore. Please have a look at blog post One versus multiple VSAN disk groups per host‌ This post should give you more info on why having multiple disk groups per host is a good thing. 4) Moving vCenter to physical server is not a good option as you will again have a single point of failure. 5) Also see if you can upgrade your environment to vSphere 6.5 or at least vSphere 6.0 u2. vSphere 6.5 and 6.0 u2 has a lot more vSAN level view in vCenter UI than vSphere 5.5. Also, needless to say, there are many bug fixes in the latest releases of vSAN. Hope this is helpful and answers your query. _________________________ Was your question answered correctly? If so, please remember to mark your question as answered when you get the correct answer and award points to the person providing the answer. This helps others searching for a similar issue. Cheers! -Shivam
Sounds like you have connectivity to the remote VC, but not the remote SRM. Can you confirm you have all network ports open as per https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1009562 Maybe 9086 from local VC serv... See more...
Sounds like you have connectivity to the remote VC, but not the remote SRM. Can you confirm you have all network ports open as per https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1009562 Maybe 9086 from local VC server to remote SRM server could be the problem? Or, can you log into the remote VC and check that you are able to access SRM ok? Is it any different if you try to pair from that site?
Ah ok. Security groups are not supported in VDS mode.