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Rapid Recovery 6.5 and VMWare ESXi 5.5 Create VM

slarkinsol
over 3 years ago

Looking to upgrade my cores to RR 6.5 for VMWare ESXi 7.0 support. I still have a ESXi 5.5 cluster in my environment. I use agent based backups for all my servers. Only process i would need the core to be able to do on ESXi is create virtual standby or VM export to create a VM from a backup in case of a server failure. I realize 5.5 is out of support and Quest wont help with issues. My question is, will RR 6.5 connect correctly to ESXi 5.5 to create the VMs as needed. The ESXi is a full license (not free)

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I do not know this offhand, but I will be happy to try this. I can attempt this for you.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to phuff

    thanks...i would appreciate that

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to slarkinsol

    Initial thoughts, I would not recommend going to RR 6.5 if you are running ESXi 5.5. I have yet to get an export to even start. There are vddk errors as soon as the jobs begin. I have tried a couple cores and a few jobs, none even create the VM, they fail on the initial api call to create the VM. Now, the only other ambiguity is that this build isn't up to date, however my VCs are old enough I can't run update manager against a 5.5. host (sorry). I'd highly recommend NOT upgrading to RR 6.5 if you were/are running ESXi 5.5 still. If you're not on 6.4 I can try 6.4 too, didn't think about that in fact. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to slarkinsol

    Initial thoughts, I would not recommend going to RR 6.5 if you are running ESXi 5.5. I have yet to get an export to even start. There are vddk errors as soon as the jobs begin. I have tried a couple cores and a few jobs, none even create the VM, they fail on the initial api call to create the VM. Now, the only other ambiguity is that this build isn't up to date, however my VCs are old enough I can't run update manager against a 5.5. host (sorry). I'd highly recommend NOT upgrading to RR 6.5 if you were/are running ESXi 5.5 still. If you're not on 6.4 I can try 6.4 too, didn't think about that in fact. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to phuff

    I need 6.5 in order to talk to my ESXi 7.0 cluster...I do have an older set of what was Dell DL appliances running 5.4.3.100....maybe i update those to 6.1.3 to keep compatibility for my one site that is going to be ESXI 5.5 only until 2022....I am just wondering what the newest version is that still works with 5.5...i think 6.4 still lists 5.5 but not supported...if its not too much trouble...can you test 6.4?

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to slarkinsol

    Gotcha. Yeah man, I can test that. Not a biggy. I actually wonder what the last VC version was that allowed me to update 5.5 so I can fully update 5.5. Unless you have the ability to get me an .iso for 9919047 or 9313066? Either way, I'll do a 6.4 core sure thing. 

  • +1 over 3 years ago in reply to phuff

    I just tried a 6.4 core against esxi 5.5 and I can not get a VMware export started. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to phuff

    thanks...i guess i will upgrade my older DL's to 6.1.9 and the newer servers to 6.5...thanks for all the work you did testing this out

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to slarkinsol

    You're welcome - honestly I'd kinda fun to tinker around now and again. I'd been awhile in fact. Also RR 6.3 appears to be able to export to ESXi 5.5. At least the GA versions of both RR and ESXi. I'll run the 5.5 through update manager to see you can go higher. However it looks like 6.3 would be an option for you if you are still using 5.5. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to phuff

    thanks...i am going to download 6.3 if i decide to go that high....i didnt realize the DL appliances had a specific RR installer up to 6.1.3..which cant be downloaded any more....trying to get support to help me with that. My DL is out of support...so dont know how high my chnaces are...