VMware vSphere 8 Unsupported Properties in Compatibility Mode

Product version: 10.7.2

Last modified: 7 November 2022

Question

Which vSphere v8 properties are skipped in the course of workload protection?

Background

With v10.7.2, NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers support for vSphere v8 (Initial Availability) in Compatibility Mode. This means that new workload properties introduced in vSphere 8 are skipped during backup, replication, and recovery if a workload is protected in Compatibility Mode.

Answer

The following new vSphere 8 properties are skipped when using Compatibility Mode:

Structure Property name Type
VirtualMachineConfigSpec rebootPowerOff Boolean
motherboardLayout String
vmxStatsCollectionEnabled Boolean
vmOpNotificationTimeout Long
simultaneousThreads Integer
virtualNuma VirtualMachineVirtualNuma
deviceSwap VirtualMachineVirtualDeviceSwap
deviceGroups VirtualMachineVirtualDeviceGroups
  • VirtualMachineVirtualNuma
coresPerNumaNode Integer
exposeVnumaOnCpuHotadd Boolean
  • VirtualMachineVirtualDeviceSwap
lsiToPvscsi VirtualMachineVirtualDeviceSwapDeviceSwapInfo
    • VirtualMachineVirtualDeviceSwapDeviceSwapInfo


enabled

 Boolean

applicable

 Boolean

status

 String
  • VirtualMachineVirtualDeviceGroups
deviceGroup VirtualMachineVirtualDeviceGroupsDeviceGroup
    • VirtualMachineVirtualDeviceGroupsDeviceGroup


groupInstanceKey

 int
deviceInfo Description
  • VirtualMachineSgxInfo
requireAttestation Boolean
VirtualDevice numaNode Integer
deviceGroupInfo VirtualDeviceDeviceGroupInfo
  • VirtualDeviceDeviceGroupInfo
groupInstanceKey int
sequenceId int
VirtualPCIPassthroughVmiopBackingInfo vgpuMigrateDataSizeMB Integer
enhancedMigrateCapability Boolean
VirtualSriovEthernetCard dvxBackingInfo VirtualPCIPassthroughDvxBackingInfo
VirtualPCIPassthroughDvxBackingInfo

deviceClass

 String
configParams com.vmware.vim25.OptionValue
VirtualVmxnet3Vrdma uptv2Enabled Boolean
VirtualDeviceConfigSpec changeMode String ref VirtualDeviceConfigSpecChangeMode (FAIL/SKIP)