Hi All,

We are currently running a VMware environment with SAN as storage. We have two sites, production and disaster recovery. We are currently reviewing our backup site. At the backup site we have another VCenter, physical hosts with enough resources to run production and an equivalent SAN with double the production capacity. Volume replication occurs between the production SAN to DR SAN. We use VEEAM for backups.

We want to be able to use the DR site in the event the production site is unavailable due to disaster as quickly/easily as possible for all network services. Is it better to use VM site recovery or veeam replication. Should we continue to replicate the Volumes from the production SAN to the DR SAN? We also want to be able to recover single server very quickly, ie if our storage server got hit with ransomware we could simply roll it back to a known uninfected time.

Thoughts, suggestions and input very welcome.

Cheers,
Paul

Dear Team,

We have number of VMS which are having OS 2008 R2 and need to upgrade to 2016 standard.

Scenario :
I have 2 File Servers on 2008 R2 high Available using DFS. I want to upgarde the OS to windows 2016 Standard. Can you please share the best practice.

My setup is on VMware Standard (HCI) version 6.7.

My company is starting to look into HCI solutions with some of our vendors. One of the solutions they are looking at is Nutanix. We are a large VMware shop. If we go with Nutranix, can we still running ESXi like we would with VxRails? I know Nutanix is very proprietary on their OS.

Virtual Windows 2016 server constant update problems.
Once again trying to update VMs running 2016 this time the update is kb449440 it just hangs at zero or 95%.  Been doing this for over 18 years, I have never had issues like this before with updates.
Any ideas/thoughts as to how to prevent this and resolve it. Even after a reboot, it goes back to hanging on the download forever.  I am ready to just go back to the snapshots, which I did but then will hang indefinitely on the downloads.  Is 2016 just a mess or something I need to do that have not with all prior releases of windows?  These VMs are running on Vsphere 6.5
Thanks!!!

I have two Dell Poweredge R420 servers, with iDRAC, VMWare 5.1 (prepping for upgrade), and two Power supplies each.  One of them though refuses to setup the second power supply in redundant mode.  The iDRAC setup indicates that there is a missing license.    I looked at my licenses on my Dell Account and there is none,  other then the two licenses for the iDRAC's which are held in perpetuity.  I am thinking there is something else going on.  All of the current firmware and updates are installed.  (this was done last week in the hopes it would resolve this.)  Looking for Ideas while I wait for Dell to respond.

I have used VMware monitor products like vRealize and Foglight at other companies and looking at getting some monitoring tools for my new environment. I have been looking at vRealize, Logic Monitor, Opvizor and Foglight want wanted to get other people opinions who are using these products currently. I am looking for a product that provides in dept environment metrics, trending, forecasting and reporting. Not to mention is reasonably priced.

Hi
Im having issues editing settings of a VM in vcenter.  See attached error.
I found this but looks to be for windows vcenter not appliance. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2001804 
Ideas how to fix?
I have upgraded vcenter appliance to latest version.
Thanks
vcenter-appliance-error-editing-vm.jpg

Quick Question

Can Dell EMC UnityVSA

Provide stretched Cluster?

Note: That's the VSA (virtual SAN) product NOT VXRail

Anyone?

VCSA 6.7

I made a mistake with DNS config before confuguring VCSA  my bad.
Set up vcsa - login and DNS FQDN works in address window
However once I log in it displays as the IP address rather than the name of the vcsa ex vcsa1-67 etc.
Is there a way to change this?
Thanks!  If not we get to reinstall it again ;-)
Doesn't hurt to ask!
Thanks!

Greetings!

We have a virtual machine that sits in on an ESXi 5.5 development server, runs Scientific Linux 7 and is provisioned for 800 GB of space.  We want to move it to a production server, but since it is only using less than 50 GB of space, we would love to provision it to use 100 GB.  How should we proceed to move/compress this VM at the same time?  Use the converter?  Any guidance/instructions will be most welcome.