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shutdown DRS/HA cluster

vmb01 — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 15:16:16 GMT

Hi I need to shutdown all the hosts in a DRS/HA cluster but I'm not able to enable MAINTENACE mode because the vCLS VMs are powerd on. How can I do?

vSphere with tanzu networking requirements

vmb01 — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 14:57:11 GMT

I'm planning to install a vsphere with tanzu using an NSX ALB. I think to use the already existing VDS portgroup management network and to create another portgroup for workload network. This workload portgropup wil stay on a separate vlan/subnet.

Is it enough?

do the management network and workload network to be routables with each other?

am I forgetting something?

Thanks in advance

Re: Enable workload management hangs on configuring: timezone issue

vmb01 — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 15:45:18 GMT

Hi, I need to set a timezone, not to change the NTP servers

Enable workload management hangs on configuring: timezone issue

vmb01 — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 14:05:42 GMT

I'm enabling the workload management, the 3 VMs has been deployed correctly but the configuring supervisor task never ends.

I've cheched time in vcenter, ALB and supervisor. The time and NTP are correct but vcenter and ALB show time using the time zone set in vcenter. The supervisor shows the UTC time that is different. How to set a time zone into the supervisor cluster ?

ESXi free hypervisor limitations

vmb01 — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:39:21 GMT

which are the current limitations for the ESXi free hypervisor version 8?

I'm not speaking about the 60 days evaluation period but about the FREE version of ESXi

Thanks in advance

log insight and third parties products

vmb01 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:14:20 GMT

a customer asks for a tool to centrally manage the logs and alert datas coming from the various security tools like: BlackBerry CylancePROTECT for endpoint protection, Forescout for network and access control, Clavister as Firewall and Qualys for vulnerability management and application scanning to check if they have bugs.

Do you think tha log insight can be the right tool?

elevate admin rights on win10

vmb01 — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:19:38 GMT

Hi, using workspace one on windows 10 devices , is it possible to elevate a user to admin only when a particular application (already installed) is executed?

ESA nested fault domain

vmb01 — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 12:09:14 GMT

just seen that VSAN ESA supports the nested fault domain for a 2 nodes config.

As far as I know every single ESA host must have at least 4 NVMe.

Using 4 NVMe, is it posssible to configure a nested raid 1 and a nested raid 5 (2 + 1) ?

Re: MTU from DC to branch

vmb01 — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 09:01:00 GMT

Hi, I don't know about the RTT latency but which is the maximum latency tolerated?

Re: MTU from DC to branch

vmb01 — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:54:35 GMT

the customer would like to use a L2 segment not a L2 VPN so the network traffic will be incapsulated from the TEP in the main DC and will be decapsulated from the TEP in the branch.

MTU from DC to branch

vmb01 — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 13:06:40 GMT

A customer has a main DC and 9 branches . He would like to install NSX-T to have the same L2 segment in all the branches. The question is: does he nedd a 1600 MTU from the main DC to the branches and frome branch to branch ?

app ID

vmb01 — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 14:32:34 GMT

in the KB https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/86095?lang=en_US

I see 2 features:

Basic L7 Application Identification Rules

and

Advanced L7 Application Identification Rules

Wich is the main difference?

Re: Nested Fault Domains for 2-node STRECHED clusters

vmb01 — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 10:37:56 GMT

Hi Duncan, do you have any news, from the PM, about it ?

Nested Fault Domains for 2-node STRECHED clusters

vmb01 — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 14:37:30 GMT

If I deploy a streched cluster composed by 2 nodes (in the config guide I select streched NOT 2 hosts),

The "Nested Fault Domains for 2-node clusters" is available ?

Streched cluster and Affinity Rules

vmb01 — Thu, 26 May 2022 10:57:24 GMT

in a vSAN streched cluster it's possible to use DRS soft affinity rules to set a Preferred Fault Domain for a bounch of VMs.

If I need to move (vmotion) a VM or some VMs to the Secondary Fault Domain (without having any failure) what happens?

DRS will enforce the soft affinity rule and vmotion back the VMs to the preferred site?

And the same question for a simple, not streched, cluster. If I have a soft rule to prefer a couple of hosts for some VM and I need to move a VM to an host 'not preferred' what does DRS do?

Docker Volume Driver for vSphere,

vmb01 — Thu, 19 May 2022 15:16:06 GMT

I've a customer is using Docker managed by swarm in a vsphere environments.

He is asking me about persistent storage

I've found Docker Volume Driver for vSphere,

https://cormachogan.com/2016/06/01/docker-volume-driver-vsphere/

Is it a product available ?

Re: erasure coding and HA

vmb01 — Tue, 17 May 2022 08:48:16 GMT

If It works using "Force provisioning = ON" it's correct to say that the VSWP object receive the storage policy assigned to the VM.
Is it possible to define a different storage policy to be assigned to the VSWP objects?

erasure coding and HA

vmb01 — Mon, 16 May 2022 14:48:48 GMT

A customer has a 4 nodes vSAN cluster and created a storage policy using FTT=1 and RAID5 (erasure coding)

They states that if they have an host failure, HA is not able to power on the failed VMs.

It seems that to power on the VM is necessary to create a new VSWP using FTT=1 and RAID5 but having only 3 hosts is not possible to create a RAID5 object.

Is it correct?

Re: vtpm and ESS +

vmb01 — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 14:17:54 GMT

In both the essentials kits is included the VTPM feature

vtpm and ESS +

vmb01 — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 10:43:02 GMT

IHAC trying to install W11 as guest
As we know, W11 needs TPM (ok, there’re tons of sites about registry hack to avoid this check, but it is unsupported by MS)
We can supply vTPM to a guest.. easy.
vTPM needs vSphere Encryption (see documentation:

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-6F811A7A-D58B-47B4-84B4-73391D55C268.html)

VM encryption is only available in ENT+
So does it mean that only customer with ENT+ will be able to virtualize w11?