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

lucasitteam — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 11:22:10 GMT

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.

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

lucasitteam — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 10:06:31 GMT

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.

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

lucasitteam — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 07:51:17 GMT

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.

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

lucasitteam — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 05:58:29 GMT

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.

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

lucasitteam — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 20:34:34 GMT

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?

Driver at VMware site and Firmware at Dell site ;)

lucasitteam — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 19:55:53 GMT

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.

Re: Where to start learning

lucasitteam — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 22:28:10 GMT

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

Where to start learning

lucasitteam — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 20:04:11 GMT

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.

Re: VMCP Not shown for few VMs

lucasitteam — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:00:00 GMT

Ah! Found out.

I have over-riding the Restart scenario but it is disabling APD/PDL

Re: VMCP Not shown for few VMs

lucasitteam — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:55:20 GMT

Thanks a lot. I overlooked.

Im interested/Curious why it is overridding.

Re: VMCP Not shown for few VMs

lucasitteam — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:25:45 GMT

Hallo,

Sorry it did not helped.

I checked HA and DRS settings.

Nothing I could find.

Thanks for advice.

VMCP Not shown for few VMs

lucasitteam — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:50:42 GMT

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)

Re: VMWare Horizon 7 Named User licenses

lucasitteam — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:34:28 GMT

Here is what I did. I followed the VMware Knowledge Base

But end up spending 2 hours how to write SQL query.

Below might help you. But remember the prefix.

SELECT a.ModuleAndEventText,a.Time
From dbo.Event_event_historical a
INNER JOIN
(SELECT ModuleAndEventText,
MAX(Time) as Time
from dbo.Event_event_historical
GROUP BY ModuleAndEventText
) AS b
ON a.ModuleAndEventText = b.ModuleAndEventText
AND a.Time = b.Time
WHERE EventType = 'Agent_CONNECTED';

You get the output since the view environment was built.

Export result in Excel sheet anf filter by the year.

You will need do little excel trick to remove the duplicate users.

Named User license and Floating pool

lucasitteam — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 11:37:44 GMT

Hallo All,

We are using Named user licenses (Standard Version)

we have a floating pool VDI desktop. Anyone knows how the licensing work here.

e.g. If user1 logs in January and do not log back till March. Is the license still counted?

Re: vSphere Replication for Critical Applications

lucasitteam — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:53:41 GMT

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

Re: vSphere Replication for Critical Applications

lucasitteam — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:12:08 GMT

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.

vSphere Replication for Critical Applications

lucasitteam — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:37:33 GMT

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.

Re: vSphere Replication - Isolated networks

lucasitteam — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 18:07:42 GMT

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?

Re: Blocking everything except Printer

lucasitteam — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:56:00 GMT

yes.

Blocking everything except Printer

lucasitteam — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 10:30:43 GMT

Hallo All,

I would like to block all devices and only allow Printer. This setting i would like at agent level.

Here is what I have configured.

I would like what is the best way to do so. Because there will always be device which may not fall into this category.

I tried.

Exclude all devices : Enabled

Include Device Family: o:printer

But it is not working. Any help will be highly appreciated.