Plain Virtualization

With the release of vSphere 6.7, and the ability to have EVC on a per VM level instead of a per cluster level raise some questions. Before we start here is an article on how to check what level of EVC to use here . One of the questions often asked, does vMotion works across newer CPUs in the same generation without an EVC cluster? If you follow this KB , in the last paragraph: Once the virtual machine is power cycled: They are only able to move to other ESX/ESXi hosts that are at the same CPU generation or newer. What this state means if you have a new server with a new CPU generation, technically you can perform a vMotion without having the VM in an EVC cluster. However, there are cases where vMotion will fail even the CPU is of the same generation due to an older version of VM hardware which has a more stringent check. As stated here , due to the destination host with a newer CPU with ISA extension not found on the source host. In the above case, vMotion will stil...

Today marks the release of the next iteration of vSphere. Most changes are the improvement of existing features and that includes what is embedded together with ESXi which is vSAN . First, vCenter Appliance will support Single Sign On domain with embedded PSC with Hybrid Linked mode. During this release, support for the upgrade with older vCenter Server with External PSC will not be possible at release. External PSC setup is still supported. There is a Hybrid Linked Mode which will support on prem vCenter Server 6.7 with VMware Cloud on AWS vCenter Server 6.5. Lastly, this is also the last release support for vCenter Windows Server as mentioned in the last release . There will be a backup tool and can be scheduled to help manage vCenter recovery process. In terms of migration to vCSA, the migration tool allows asynchronize background process to reduce the amount of downtime. The HTML5 Client (Clarity UI) has not feature priority up to 95%, up from version 6.5. Yo...

Quite sometime back, I did wrote about how to use the compatibility site on VMware HCL page here .  Recently I saw that there was and additional page there was added just for CPU. It might be a little too much work to clicking through for one model and another just to check what are the Enhanced vMotion (EVC) modes supported. So here VMware just release one for CPU just to have a ease of check here .  Of cause you can still check out the KB to understand more on CPU class. Here is a video to illustrate how you can use the new section.

References: VMware Compatiblity Guide VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes Business Applications on VMware Platform I have been asked many times if this hardware will support that hardware or does this solution support the other solution?  What are the databases supported?  Which storage support VMware Site Recovery Manager? It's pretty easy to find this out but if you do not know how to you might end up goggling and find yourself with lots of links but not very closed to your expected results.  Reason is these are all based on search engines so unless someone posted that on the internet else it would be hard to come by. Below is a video on how you can easily navigate on VMware website to look for the compatibility matrix that you are looking for.  Do not that as not all hardware are send in for certification, the newest and greatest might not be listed in the database.  For that, you will need to check back with the respective hardware vendor. ...