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  • 1.  I didn't think Lifecycle Manager Single Images could get worse - I was wrong again! (another rant)

    Posted 30 days ago
    Edited by Carl Power 30 days ago

    After upgrading to vSphere 8, it dawned on me what was before me - single images for standalone servers, my new nightmare.

    Now you may see this as not a big problem, but heres my current environment:

    • 160+ standalone physical servers (all are ML30 Gen10)
    • 150+ secondary servers for vSAN witnesses
    • 160+ vSAN clusters (2 hosts + witness, all are DL360 Gen10)

    Where baselines were able to be implemented at the root folder and apply to all child items, I now have 470+ unique single images to manage in my environment, and each needs to be independently updated every time I want to update my environment...

    Please VMware Gods, allow me to link single images to a master image!!!



  • 2.  RE: I didn't think Lifecycle Manager Single Images could get worse - I was wrong again! (another rant)

    Posted 29 days ago

    Not really a rant if you see it as a chance to throw a solid idea at the VMware devs, but yeah, I get the struggle.
    I know that you can still use baselines in vSphere 8 regardless - is this not an option for you anymore?




  • 3.  RE: I didn't think Lifecycle Manager Single Images could get worse - I was wrong again! (another rant)

    Posted 27 days ago

    I'm trying to follow the design, but I may actually do just that.
    We already have vSAN clusters in single image mode, but now applying it to standalone servers essentially triples the wasted time managing 470+ individual images instead of the 3 different platforms...