- #SPBM FILE TO VCF HOW TO#
- #SPBM FILE TO VCF PATCH#
- #SPBM FILE TO VCF UPGRADE#
Sending iSCSI/NFS/FCoE/vSAN storage traffic to an IDS/Firewall/Load balancer. If you want to know how much traffic is flowing and where, consider turning on SFLOW/JFLOW/NetFlow on the physical switches and monitoring from that point. 
While I”m not sure of a specific support statement, i’m going to kindly ask you not to do this.
Trying to mirror high throughput flows of storage or vMotion from a VDS is likely to cause performance problems. Some things we assume are such bad idea’s no one would try them, and there is only so much time to document all bad ideas. VSAN over VLAN backed port groups on NSX-T is supported.įrank Escaros- Buechsel with VMware support once told someone “While we do not document that as not supported, it’s a bit like putting peanut butter in a server. vSAN over VxLAN/VTEP in hardware is supported. vSAN is supported over layer 3 (may need to configure static routes!) and this is a “Good idea” on stretched clusters so spanning tree issues don’t crash both datacenters! Modern enterprise switches can route OSPF/Static routes etc at wire-speed just fine all in the ASIC offloads. While they may add complexity or not be supported on VCF or VxRAIL in certain configurations, they certainly are just fine with vSAN from a feasibility standpoint. Good Ideas! – There is some false assumptions you can’t do the following. There are a lot of misconceptions about vSAN routing or flowing or going places. There’s a trend of security people wanting to inspect “all the things!”. I’d like to use RSPAN against the vDS and mirror all vSAN traffic, I’d like to run all vSAN traffic through a ASA Firewall or Palo Alto or IDS, Cisco ISR, I’d like to route vSAN traffic through a F5 or similar requests… I do plan to merge this into the vSAN Networking Guide this quarter. If anyone at Cisco wants to work with me on a joint KB saying “don’t use a FEX for vSAN/HCI in 2019” please reach out to me! Before anyone accuses me of not liking Cisco, I’ll say I’m a big fan of the C36180YC-R (ultra deep buffers RAWR!), and have seen some amazing performance out of this switch recently when paired with Intel Optane.īeyond the FEX, I’ve written some neutral switch guidance on buffers on our official blog. The reality is there are politics to getting a KB written saying “not to use something”, and it would require cooperation from the switch vendors. While vSAN does not currently have a switch HCL (Watch this space!) I have written some guidance specifically about FEXs on this personal blog. Should I use a Nexus 2000K (or other low performing network switch) with vSAN? Note these solutions all use vSAN and avoid the VSA problem and have done the engineering work to make things play nice. The only exception to using SDDC manager with external lifecycle tooling tools are select vendor LCM solutions that done customization and interop (Examples include VxRAIL Manager, the Redfish to HPE Synergy integration, and packaged VCF appliance solutions like UCP-RS and VxRACK SDDC). You’ll have issues with SDDC Manager not understanding the state of the hosts, but also coordination of non-ESXi elements (NSX perhaps using a VIB) would also be problematic. The issue comes in, running multiple host patching systems is a “very bad idea” (TM). #SPBM FILE TO VCF PATCH#
What about if I use the VSA’s external lifecycle management to patch ESXi? If there is a virtual machine on the host that can not be powered off or moved, this will cause lifecycle to fail.
This process is triggered when a host is placed into maintenance mode and DRS carefully vMotions VMs off of the host. In order to patch a host, all running virtual machines must be removed.
#SPBM FILE TO VCF UPGRADE#
The issue is that SDDC Manager automates upgrade and patch management. This one has come up quite a lot recently with some partners, and storage vendors who use VSA’s (A virtual machine that locally consumes storage to replicate it) incorrectly claiming this is supported. How do I use VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) with a VSA/Virtual Machine that can not be vMotion’d to another host? There are a host of reasons why this may or may not be documented but here is my monthly list of “No/That is a bad idea (TM)!”. I’ll often fire back a simple “No” and then we get into a discussion about why VMware does not have a KB for this specific corner case or situation.
#SPBM FILE TO VCF HOW TO#
Peanut Butter is Not Supported with vSphere/Storage Networking/vSAN/VCFįrom time to time I get oddball questions where someone asks about how to do something that is not supported or a bad idea.
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