What’s New in VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.6
We’re blissful to announce that VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.6 is now Usually Accessible as of June 15, 2023.
This new launch combines new performance with operational enhancements to present Cloud Suppliers and their tenants a fair smoother expertise whereas replicating workloads.
The Tunnel equipment is chargeable for dealing with all of the replication administration and information site visitors making it a important a part of the VMware Cloud Director Availability structure. Earlier than 4.6, solely a single Tunnel equipment was supported to be a part of the setup, which many Cloud Suppliers thought-about a possible bottleneck for the standard of their DR companies.
The Tunnel Equipment Excessive Availability addresses that concern by permitting a second Tunnel equipment to be deployed. The 2 function in Lively / Lively mode and require an exterior load balancer (for instance, VMware NSX Superior Load Balancer).
We are going to publish a weblog publish shortly to recommend completely different design choices and comprise every part regarding the configuration.
Observe: This structure is simply obtainable for VMware Cloud Director clouds.
Since introducing the assist for devoted vSphere clouds as a replication vacation spot, we have now prolonged the listing of obtainable options with each new launch. This one is not any exception and brings a number of vital enhancements:
- Restoration Plans to outline the failover order of the replicated VMs the identical method it’s performed for VMware Cloud Director clouds
- Bandwidth throttling to implement site visitors limits on a particular community interface of the Tunnel equipment
- Public API, which was lacking earlier than. Please examine https://developer.vmware.com for a reference
In VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.3.1, we enabled migrating templates from one catalog to a different in the identical or a distant VMware Cloud Director cloud.
In 4.6, we enhanced that characteristic to examine for template adjustments and carry out an automatic migration if a modification is detected. It may end up in overwriting the present template on the vacation spot catalog or creating a more recent model.
Together with all talked about, we have now additionally improved product administration and operability.
For clouds operating VMware Cloud Director 10.3 or later, VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.6 now helps replicating:
- The DHCP service on vApp remoted networks
- Routed vApp networks
- vApp community companies
This implies VMware Cloud Director Availability not converts routed vApp networks to direct with all community companies eliminated. The identical is legitimate for the remoted the place DHCP assist is not dropped.
There are additionally some enhancements to the Restoration Settings, resulting in a extra unified feel and appear for all circumstances:
- For on-premises to cloud replications (Cloud Director vacation spot clouds), the supply and the vacation spot networks could be mapped, equally to cloud-to-cloud replications
- For vSphere DR and migration:
- Restoration settings are validated based mostly on the replication settings
- Supply and vacation spot community mappings permit community mapping per VM
One other new characteristic is the Visitor Customization World Setting, which may management the Visitor Customization Settings – activated or deactivated for all new replications. It could nonetheless be overwritten by way of the Restoration Settings of every replication.
Auditing can be improved with all the brand new occasions added to the VMware Cloud Director audit path, similar to logins/logouts, settings adjustments, equipment configuration, and so forth. You’ll be able to overview and export these from the VMware Cloud Director Occasions console. That is extraordinarily helpful across the Sovereign Cloud initiative.
The notifications additionally get refined in VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.6. The e-mail channel is prolonged and may now be used for transmitting messages about all of the obtainable occasions and actions, together with replication-related info.
As well as, each tenants and Cloud Suppliers can subscribe to obtain a weekly exercise abstract through e-mail. The Cloud Suppliers can manually generate this new report by way of the UI too.
VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.6 helps direct upgrades from 4.4.x and 4.5.x. for Cloud Director clouds and from 4.5.x for vSphere clouds.
For the precise improve steps or in case you want to improve from an older model, please consult with the improve documentation.
VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.6 Release notes
VMware Cloud Director Availability Interoperability Matrix
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