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Like every hardware and software components, before apply a VMware vSphere...
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Before the decision of Broadcom to sell the VMware’s EUC Division, the compatibility between (VMware) Horizon and VMware vSphere was simply included in the Product Interoperability Matrix.
But now, of course this VMware site is no more updated because does not include recent versions of both products:
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VMware vSphere ships with many metrics and properties. If we take object by object, and document metrics by metrics, it will be both dry and theoretical. You will be disappointed as it does not explain how your real world problems are solved. You’re not in the business of collecting metric.
Iwan ‘e1’ Rahabok made an impressive book on VMware vSphere Metrics and now is at its 4th edition!
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Like every hardware and software components, before apply a VMware vSphere upgrade or update you have to check all compatibility aspects. One is related to the backup software that can be critical because you may loose the capability to perform backup and/or restore.
Of course this apply also to “minor” update, like vSphere 8.0U3.
For Veeam Backup & Replication there is a specific Veeam KB (KB 2443) that provides information about compatibility between VMware vSphere and Veeam Backup & Replication.
And finally, some weeks after ESXi 8.0.3 become GA, there is an official support for vSphere 8.0U3 starting with Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1.2 (build 12.1.2.172)!
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Backup content can be safe during the backup, but maybe there are some security threads that are not yet been identify (like 0-day attack) or maybe the backup data are corrupoted (like guest filesystem corruption).
SureBackup is the Veeam technology that allows you to test machines backups and check if you can recover data from them. You can verify any restore point of a backed-up machine.
For SureBackup, Veeam Backup & Replication uses a regular image-based backup. SureBackup job can operate in two different recovery verification modes:
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If you are are planning to upgrade your Horizon Connection Server’s OS, there are two different paths. One is using an in-place upgrade of Windows Server that can work (in theory). The second one is decommisioning your connection server and replace with a new one (and repeat if you have more).
The strategy really depends of the size of your environment and how much is production critical.
With a dev or lab environment single server, the in-place OS upgrade could make sense.
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VMware ESXi partitions layout includes some old FAT partitions used for the two bootbanks. A strange choice that can bring, in some cases, the corruption of those partitions and you may notice during an upgrade.
With vSphere 8.0 the suggested update procedure is using the images instead of the (old) baselines.
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Debian like distributions have a nice option to manage distribution upgrade (apt-get dist-upgrade), not available on RedHat like distributions… in-place upgrade are still possible, but maybe much more tricky and sometimes not supported at all.
For Rocky Linux in-place upgrades from one major version to the next aren’t supported (see https://docs.rockylinux.org/release_notes/9_0/) at all and there is a good reason… if somethings goes wrong you cannot revert the operation. There are also other good reasons, like that the new version may require more resources (for example, disk space).
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