Bug 2249488

Summary:	Mention clearly that which version of VMware vCenter is supported as Compute Resource in Satellite 6
Product:	Red Hat Satellite	Reporter:	Sayan Das <saydas>
Component:	Provisioning	Assignee:	Zuzana Lena Ansorgova <zuansorg>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Satellite QE Team <sat-qe-bz-list>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.13.4	CC:	chrobert, gtalreja, igkioka, rlavi, sshtein, vijsingh, zuansorg
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Description Sayan Das 2023-11-13 14:19:47 UTC

Document URL: 

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.13/html-single/provisioning_hosts/index#Creating_a_VMware_User_vmware-provisioning


Section Number and Name: 

11.3. Creating a VMware User


Describe the issue: 

This is the only section where we mention any version of VMware vSphere but It only talks about the user permission-related changes in those versions. 

We don't mention that only those versions are truly supported by RH Satellite 6 ( 6.10 - 6.14 ) and that creates confusion. 

Example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247345#c6 


Suggestions for improvement: 

Since we only consider those versions as supported that are completely tested by QE, Let's ensure that, under section "11.2. Prerequisites for VMware Provisioning", a separate point is added and we have mentioned the versions of VMware that are expected to work with Satellite without any issues. 

If we don't support VMware vSphere 8, then we better be clear about it. 


Additional information:

Comment 5 Zuzana Lena Ansorgova 2023-11-28 18:18:12 UTC

I've decided to include the information in the documentation directly, instead of the KCS article: https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-documentation/pull/2609
For upstream, I mention a note that 8.0.0-8.0.1 is known to work, but is not officially supported. For Satellite, this note will not be included.
How does that sound?

Comment 7 Zuzana Lena Ansorgova 2023-11-29 14:41:45 UTC

Published:

- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.14/html-single/provisioning_hosts/index#Prerequisites_for_VMware_Provisioning_vmware-provisioning
- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.13/html-single/provisioning_hosts/index#Prerequisites_for_VMware_Provisioning_vmware-provisioning
- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.12/html-single/provisioning_hosts/index#Prerequisites_for_VMware_Provisioning_vmware-provisioning
- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.11/html-single/provisioning_hosts/index#Prerequisites_for_VMware_Provisioning_provisioning