Differences Between Legacy FT and vSphere FT in vSphere 6.5
Uno schema 'rubato' a VMware per sintetizzare una delle novità di vSphere 6.5. In sintesi, vmware consiglia di abbandonare la Legacy FT, che viene mantenuta per retrocompatibilità. Differences Between Legacy FT and vSphere FT Legacy FT vSphere FT Extended Page Tables/Rapid Virtualization Indexing (EPT/RVI) Not supported Required IPv6 Not supported for legacy FT logging NICs. Supported for vSphere FT-logging NICs. DRS Fully supported for initial placement, load balancing, and maintenance mode support. Only power on placement of Secondary VM and maintenance mode are supported. vStorage APIs - Data Protection backups Not supported Supported Eager-zeroed thick .vmdk disk files Required Not required because vSphere FT supports all disk file types, including thick and thin .vmdk redundancy Only a single copy Primary VMs and Secondary VMs always maintain independent copies, which can be placed on different datastores to increase redundanc...