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nickzaw
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‎07-27-2023 08:06 AM
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Have a great day!

Please kindly verify and mention the solutions as follows.

Currently EU has a VMware cluster with three physical Dell servers (PowerEdge R 720 two units and one R 730) vSphere version 6.5 with v-center.

Currently EU will purchase Dell PowerEdge R 750 and vSphere 8.0 license.

My questions

  *   Whether the new server R 750 with vSphere 8.0 can add to the current vSphere Cluster.
  *   If not , what are the requirements?
  *   If the new server will be the standalone , can we use VMware replication for replicating the VM on cluster and VM        on standalone?
  *   If not, what are the limitations?
  *   Can we do the VMware replication with third party backup software (VERITAS)?
  *   Can the EU upgrade the current vSphere 6.5 to 7.0 if the licenses are activated?
  *   If upgraded to vSphere to 7.0 , can we add the R 750 server with vSphere 8.0 to the current cluster?

Thanks for your time and appreciate your support.

Kind regards,
Zaw Min Myint

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degvm
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‎07-27-2023 09:05 AM
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  *   Whether the new server R 750 with vSphere 8.0 can add to the current vSphere Cluster.

You need an vcenter 8 running, for attaching hosts to that.  Upgrade of old vcenter to version 8 with hosts running version 6x is not supported.


  *   If not , what are the requirements?

see above, upgrade vcenter to 8, old hosts to 7 if possible. Create a new cluster with host version 8 an do a migration of the VMs to that new cluster


  *   If the new server will be the standalone , can we use VMware replication for replicating the VM on cluster and VM        on standalone? 

Try to attach the storage to the new hosts and power down the vm on the old host, cold-vmotion to the new hosts, and power up on Version 8.
  *   If not, what are the limitations? see above


  *   Can we do the VMware replication with third party backup software (VERITAS)? shutdown the VMs an do a replocate/migrate with compute and storage option.
  *   Can the EU upgrade the current vSphere 6.5 to 7.0 if the licenses are activated? yes if hardware is supported to run 7.0
  *   If upgraded to vSphere to 7.0 , can we add the R 750 server with vSphere 8.0 to the current cluster? no, vcenter needs to be on version 8. then, for migration time, you can mix the clusters with different versions.

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degvm
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  *   Whether the new server R 750 with vSphere 8.0 can add to the current vSphere Cluster.

You need an vcenter 8 running, for attaching hosts to that.  Upgrade of old vcenter to version 8 with hosts running version 6x is not supported.


  *   If not , what are the requirements?

see above, upgrade vcenter to 8, old hosts to 7 if possible. Create a new cluster with host version 8 an do a migration of the VMs to that new cluster


  *   If the new server will be the standalone , can we use VMware replication for replicating the VM on cluster and VM        on standalone? 

Try to attach the storage to the new hosts and power down the vm on the old host, cold-vmotion to the new hosts, and power up on Version 8.
  *   If not, what are the limitations? see above


  *   Can we do the VMware replication with third party backup software (VERITAS)? shutdown the VMs an do a replocate/migrate with compute and storage option.
  *   Can the EU upgrade the current vSphere 6.5 to 7.0 if the licenses are activated? yes if hardware is supported to run 7.0
  *   If upgraded to vSphere to 7.0 , can we add the R 750 server with vSphere 8.0 to the current cluster? no, vcenter needs to be on version 8. then, for migration time, you can mix the clusters with different versions.

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