I've used ASUS motherboards and graphics cards for the past 2 generations because they offered the best features I was looking for in comparison to the competition (the little things, like Intel NICs and half decent BIOS interfaces).
HA is only designed to respond when a host becomes isolated, or becomes entirely unavailable (ie. fails). Removing a cable from a single NIC, unless as you say, it is the last NIC in the team that heartbeat traffic is traversing, will not do anything.
Isolation being when a host cannot...
Why not just start again with a new virtual vCenter? Short of reimporting the hosts and reconfiguring any cluster settings, the only thing you'll lose is performance data.
You need to escalate the matter to your TAM, if you have one.
If not, escalate via the help desk person you were working with; at the very least they should not refuse support but ask you to replicate it on physical hardware.
So to clarify, RiDDLeRThC meets the target requirement, but not the HBA requirement, so the datastores are still considered "Partial/No Redundancy"?
To meet the HBA requirement, you're saying that he'd need to move to 2 hardware iSCSI initators, as even having path redundancy with a software...
Congratulations once again dude.
Have you seen the new roadmap for VCDX4? I think the addition of the VCAP is nice as it did seem like a big jump between VCP and VCDX - this way there is immediate recognition of passing the more advanced exams.
Congratulations, dude.
I must admit I was put off VMware tests a bit when I did my VCP3; I found a lot of the questions irrelevant or (intentionally?) vague and misleading. I think a technical exam should be exactly that, something that tests technical ability. Either way, I got it...not...
Assuming you have all the obvious integration features disabled and there are no exploitable security holes in the hypervisor, you run the same risk as if the VM were another machine on your network (depending obviously how your networking is setup) if one were to be compromised.