Technical Information

System Administrator

Sebastian Talmon

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Worth questioning your choice of cluster name, as using the version number as a cluster name means you've have to rename it each time you upgrade. You could resolve this by using a different name :-)<br />
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Anyway, yes, you can rename this without a problem for VMware, but other 3rd party apps may be affected. As noted above Veeam should be fine but without knowing what other utilities you use we cant be sure that nothing else would be affected.
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Worth questioning your choice of cluster name, as using the version number as a cluster name means you've have to rename it each time you upgrade. You could resolve this by using a different name :-)

Anyway, yes, you can rename this without a problem for VMware, but other 3rd party apps may be affected. As noted above Veeam should be fine but without knowing what other utilities you use we cant be sure that nothing else would be affected.

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HI,<br />
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I'm upgrading a cluster of hosts to 6.5 and wondering if it would break anything if I rename the cluster to 6.5. At the moment its 5.5?<br />
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Its an easy process, just wondering if things like Veeam backup will stop working<br />
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Thanks
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HI,

I'm upgrading a cluster of hosts to 6.5 and wondering if it would break anything if I rename the cluster to 6.5. At the moment its 5.5?

Its an easy process, just wondering if things like Veeam backup will stop working

Thanks

VMware Cluster rename

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Veeam

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

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Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.