[New] - Heads Up - ESXi 8.0 Update 2 requires XSAVE CPU instruction even with allowLegacyCPU=true https://williamlam.com/2023/10/heads-up-esxi-8-0-update-2-requires-xsave-cpu-instruction-even-with-allowlegacycputrue.html

🚨📢 For those with 12+ year old CPUs & looking to upgrade to #vSphere80U2 👀☝️

While its only vSphere UI feature currently - In #vSphere80U2 you can now easily export an existing vSphere w/Tanzu deployment and either re-use that or even templatize that for future deployments.

Strange UX that it provides you zip on export, but import only allows JSON ...

[New] - Heads Up - New image identifier required by VM Service in vSphere 8.0 Update 2 https://williamlam.com/2023/09/heads-up-new-image-identifier-required-by-vm-service-in-vsphere-8-0-update-2.html

#vSphere80U2

With #vSphere80U2, you can now also deploy Windows VM using the VM Service in vSphere w/Tanzu! 🥳

One thing to note, there's behavior change from earlier releases, you need to now use Name (vmi-* string) versus Image Name which avoids any potential naming conflicts.

If you're looking to use the new Reduced Downtime Time (RDU) feature for vCenter Server in #vSphere80U2

Be sure to check out this KB https://kb.vmware.com/kb/92659 that was just published yesterday w/lot of useful info, including supported topologies (current/future)

Just completed my #vSphere80U2 rollout, ESXi upgrade was last. My Supermicro E200-8D is still running like a champ!

ESXI_VERSION=ESXi-8.0U2-22380479-standard

esxcli software profile update -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml -p ${ESXI_VERSION} --no-hardware-warning

#vSphere80U2 now has over 2K+ Events in vCenter Server https://github.com/lamw/vcenter-event-mapping/blob/master/vsphere-8.0u2.md

That's a LOT of #EventDrivenAutomation potential with #VEBA 😎 Quick diff, shows a lot more new core storage/vSAN events along with bunch of other operational events that would benefit admins

Updated Nested ESXi Virtual Appliance for #vSphere80U2 is now available including latest #vSphere70U3N

Happy lab deployments! Enjoy 😎

vmwa.re/nestedesxi