What are the pros and cons of doing it this way instead of blowing it away and starting from scratch? This seems so easy that it looks too good to be true!
Hey @Ruben - If you blow an existing cluster away you would have to move any workloads on the cluster to another location. The cluster conversion demonstrated in this video allows for very little downtime for VMs (basically just a reboot) and as you mentioned is easy to do. If your cluster is greenfield it would definitely be easier to just Foundation it with AHV then move your workloads over, but if you already have clusters with ESXi you can do this live conversion.
@@EricWamsley Just did a conversion yesterday following your video steps! Only obstacle we found was that it can't convert VMs that boot via UEFI. I had to VMotion them to another cluster. For a 3 node cluster it took 30 minutes to complete (No VMs on cluster). Thanks for your informative video!
What are the pros and cons of doing it this way instead of blowing it away and starting from scratch? This seems so easy that it looks too good to be true!
Hey @Ruben - If you blow an existing cluster away you would have to move any workloads on the cluster to another location. The cluster conversion demonstrated in this video allows for very little downtime for VMs (basically just a reboot) and as you mentioned is easy to do.
If your cluster is greenfield it would definitely be easier to just Foundation it with AHV then move your workloads over, but if you already have clusters with ESXi you can do this live conversion.
@@EricWamsley Just did a conversion yesterday following your video steps! Only obstacle we found was that it can't convert VMs that boot via UEFI. I had to VMotion them to another cluster. For a 3 node cluster it took 30 minutes to complete (No VMs on cluster). Thanks for your informative video!
@@rubengutierrez5141 Glad to hear it works. Apologies for not mentioning the UEFI boot limitation. I think that is resolved in 5.19 or is coming soon.