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 | |
| coresPerNumaNode | Integer |
| exposeVnumaOnCpuHotadd | Boolean | |
| lsiToPvscsi | VirtualMachineVirtualDeviceSwapDeviceSwapInfo |
| enabled | Boolean |
applicable | Boolean | |
status | String | |
| deviceGroup | VirtualMachineVirtualDeviceGroupsDeviceGroup |
| groupInstanceKey | int |
| deviceInfo | Description | |
| requireAttestation | Boolean |
| VirtualDevice | numaNode | Integer |
| deviceGroupInfo | 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) |