VMware: Update to RHEL8, EFI, HW15

[jcpowermac]

This change modifies the OVF setting
the VM hardware version to 15, using the
guest os type as RHEL8 and switching from
BIOS to EFI.

[openshift-ci]

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[jcpowermac]

We might not be able to merge this until at least vSphere 6.5 is EOL

[cgwalters]

Did you test this?

We might not be able to merge this until at least vSphere 6.5 is EOL

Or I guess in theory we could make a new vsphere-legacy image.

[cgwalters]

/ok-to-test

[dustymabe]

tagging in @bgilbert since he has a lot of expertise here (for when he gets back from vacation).

[jcpowermac]

Did you test this?

Yep built an ova with cosa and imported to our VMC env which is running vSphere 7.

Also used okd-machine-os to build an image that can be used with OKD. The cluster failed to install but I think it was more related to other issue than the changes within the PR. Bootstrap came up as expected and ignited.

[miabbott]

Thanks for the PR, Joe!

We might not be able to merge this until at least vSphere 6.5 is EOL

I'll see if I can confirm with Product Management when this happens.

[jcpowermac]

Thanks for the PR, Joe!

We might not be able to merge this until at least vSphere 6.5 is EOL

I'll see if I can confirm with Product Management when this happens.

https://lifecycle.vmware.com/#/

ESXi 6.5
2016-11-15
2022-10-15 <- End of Technical Guidance

https://www.vmware.com/support/policies/enterprise-infrastructure.html

[miabbott]

Thanks for the PR, Joe!

We might not be able to merge this until at least vSphere 6.5 is EOL

I'll see if I can confirm with Product Management when this happens.

https://lifecycle.vmware.com/#/

ESXi 6.5 2016-11-15 2022-10-15 <- End of Technical Guidance

https://www.vmware.com/support/policies/enterprise-infrastructure.html

Oh, I thought we were speaking about support for 6.5 in OCP

[jcpowermac]

Oh ok, 4.11 will only be able to run on vSphere 6.7 U3 or later - based on:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZUKVhxuLjryEs96EGvdvN65lw3jhIi9DqFSk5zD_JZQ/edit#slide=id.gec19e10f47_0_464

[gnufied]

Also see - openshift/openshift-docs#42232 . 4.10 is last version that will support anything less than 6.7u3

[miabbott]

I got confirmation from the PM side on OCP that 4.11 will drop support for vSphere 6.5, so this change is safe to make for RHCOS.

However, since this affects both RHCOS + FCOS, I think we should evaluate the impact (if any) for FCOS.

@dustymabe tagging you again here for visibility about any impact to FCOS. Maybe worth raising at the community meeting?

[dustymabe]

can we open an issue against https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker and add the meeting label to it?

[miabbott]

can we open an issue against https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker and add the meeting label to it?

coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker#1119

[bgilbert]

Alternative in #2762 that allows setting different OS types and hardware versions for FCOS and RHCOS.

[jcpowermac]

Going to close for in favor of #2762