Search Results for: supermicro

vSphere UI Client Plugin named N/A after vSphere 8 upgrade

11.21.2022 by William Lam // 16 Comments

This past weekend I finally got a chance to upgrade my personal homelab to vSphere 8, which went super smooth! As shared on Twitter and Mastadon, I started with my VCSA which was running vSphere 7.0 Update 3h and once that had completed and running for a couple of days, I then upgraded my single ESXi host which was running 7.0 Update 3g which runs on Supermicro E200-8D.

just successfully upgraded Supermicro E200-8D from 7.0u3g to ESXi 8.0, though I had to add HW flag as CPU may not be supported in future

ESXI_VERSION=ESXi-8.0.0-20513097-standard
esxcli software profile update -d https://t.co/cs4yUyvnxQ -p ${ESXI_VERSION} --no-hardware-warning pic.twitter.com/hnEspuEDpE

— William Lam (@lamw.bsky.social | @*protected email*) (@lamw) November 20, 2022

After was functional after the upgrade, including the VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) UI Plugin 😀

This morning, I happened to navigate over to the vSphere UI Client Plugin screen under Administration->Solutions->Client Plugins and I noticed I had one plugin named "N/A" and was was showing incompatible.

I was not sure what the plugin was and raised this internally with the vSphere UI team on whether this was expected and if there was something I needed to do. It turns out this was the default vCloud Availability plugin for vCloud Director that ships with a vCenter Server deployment and it uses the deprecated local plugin architecture and this particular version of plugin is no longer applicable or compatible with vSphere 8.

[Read more...]

Homelab considerations for vSphere 8

09.14.2022 by William Lam // 128 Comments

There has been a lot of great technical content from both VMware and the broader community since the announcement of vSphere 8, which happened a few weeks ago. I know many of you are excited to get your hands on both vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 and while we wait for GA, I wanted to share some of my own personal experiences but also some of the considerations for those interested in running vSphere 8 in their homelab.

As with any vSphere release, you should always carefully review the release notes when they are made available and verify that all of your hardware and the underlying components are officially listed on the VMware HCL, which will be updated when vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 GA's. This is the only way to ensure that you will have the best possible experience and a supported configuration from VMware.

Disclaimer: The following considerations are based on early observations using pre-GA builds of vSphere 8 and it does not reflect any official guidance or support from VMware.

[Read more...]

How to limit the maximum supported VM Virtual Hardware/Compatibility in vSphere?

07.02.2022 by William Lam // 1 Comment

In the vSphere UI, customers have had the ability to specify the default VM Compatibility (formally known as Virtual Hardware Version) for some time now when creating a new VM by right clicking on either a vSphere Datacenter or Cluster object to set the default VM Compatibility.

However, this is simply just configures the default VM Compatibility and automatically fills in this value both from the UI/API standpoint but it does not actually prevent users from selecting another supported VM Compatibility.

While browsing the VMTN Community, I saw a question that asked if it was possible to limit the maximum supported VM Compatibility?

[Read more...]