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Re: The host shuts down from time to time

daphnissov — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 18:51:12 GMT

I'm not sure if that line literally means, "a human finger pressed the power" or if the system got sent SIGTERM as a graceful shutdown request.

Re: The host shuts down from time to time

daphnissov — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 15:10:59 GMT

You've got a script or process somewhere (internally or externally) that's calling for a graceful shutdown. Where that's occurring, no idea, but that appears to be what's happening. This doesn't look like ESXi is just suddenly deciding to go to bed.

Re: How much Vcenter will cost me ?

daphnissov — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 16:22:55 GMT

Yes, I'm sure that one vCenter will not properly manage hosts spread across the planet. It's not a question of licensing but of how well management will work. The only vCenter license you need (for one seat) is vCenter Standard.

Re: How much Vcenter will cost me ?

daphnissov — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 14:46:48 GMT

One vCenter is not appropriate to manage hosts in all those locations. Because of how dispersed they are, you'll need three to do this properly.

Re: vSphere with Tanzu CNI options

daphnissov — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 14:02:16 GMT

When you use vSphere with Tanzu, it's an opinionated stack and, as such, won't allow you to turn all the knobs. If that's something you want to be able to do, then TKG multi-cloud (AKA "standalone") gives you those controls.

Re: vRA 7.6 - How is the Disk & Storage Reservation Policy mapping preserved?

daphnissov — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 15:07:30 GMT

This should be stored in the IaaS database if I'm not mistaken, but this might also be a bug which was subsequently corrected in one of the hotfixes.

Re: Guest Script Manager and Linux/LDAP

daphnissov — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 15:05:55 GMT

Which version of vRA?

Re: VMware management Network

daphnissov — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 15:05:01 GMT

This doesn't sound like anything having to do with either the Host Client (where you posted this message) or ESXi in general (the product in use). This sounds like a general networking issue on your side, so check all the standard things like subnet, route tables, etc. If this is on unsupported hardware (using an officially unsupported NIC), that's also a possibility.

Re: Which is the best way to deploy a new virtual machine from an existing one (OVF or Converter)

daphnissov — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 15:02:43 GMT

Either method should work. Option 1 is less time. In case option 1 fails for whatever reason, you can certainly try option 2.

Re: Failed Skip level upgrade (4.0.1 > 4.1)

daphnissov — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 15:01:34 GMT

Have you opened a support case for this?

Re: Big Sur and "official support" in vSphere 7 doesn't exist.

daphnissov — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 15:00:44 GMT

My recommendation would be to take your SR number and talk to your TAM (if applicable) or your account manager and get some visibility. This doesn't sound like a "proper" response from GSS and sounds like an enhancement is needed in the product. Shopping that SR around internally is a good way to publicize it for resolution.

Re: ESXi 6.7 Boot Fails

daphnissov — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 14:57:29 GMT

If that fails, you might have corrupted boot media, and in those cases there's really no good recourse other than to install.

Re: vsphere Licensing (same key at two sites)

daphnissov — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 14:55:35 GMT

Yes, that configuration is fine.

Re: Do we have any tools or script to proactively monitor ESXi for hardware failures?

daphnissov — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:08:43 GMT

Aside from the CIM providers (in these vendor-customized ESXi images), there's really not. All these vendors do different things and use different machinery for these checks, which is why something like Proactive HA is created and depends on a vendor-specific provider.

Re: Extending ESXi partition on a USB SDCARD diskless 6.5

daphnissov — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 13:07:59 GMT

Same reply you won't like: You should be trying to do this. Need to reinstall with a larger device. Backup and restore the ESXi config and any VMs needed (if applicable).

Re: Deploying vcenter HA across datacenters

daphnissov — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 13:04:36 GMT

Linked mode does not provide resiliency. Each instance of vCenter manages separate hosts. It's not an alternative to vCHA.

Re: Deploying vcenter HA across datacenters

daphnissov — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 15:01:31 GMT

I think most of the answers you can divine here.

Re: Deploying vcenter HA across datacenters

daphnissov — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 15:06:04 GMT

vCHA is not really used to do what you're intending because of its strict latency requirements. You also require a private network which must be on the same segment. If you don't have this, and if your latency requirements don't match, it won't work.

Re: Reset the initial deployment wizard or join a cluster post deployment.

daphnissov — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 01:22:54 GMT

Not to my knowledge. Those are all redeployment triggers.

Re: Can i use free VMWare ESXi for commercial use?

daphnissov — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 15:44:27 GMT

No, there is no free version which allows for commercial use.