What’s New in VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.6
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We’re comfortable to announce that VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.6 is now Usually Obtainable as of June 15, 2023.
This new launch combines new performance with operational enhancements to offer Cloud Suppliers and their tenants a good smoother expertise whereas replicating workloads.
The Tunnel equipment is chargeable for dealing with all of the replication administration and knowledge 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 of 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 Energetic / Energetic mode and require an exterior load balancer (for instance, VMware NSX Superior Load Balancer).
We’ll publish a weblog publish shortly to recommend totally different design choices and include the whole lot regarding the configuration.
Be aware: This structure is just accessible for VMware Cloud Director clouds.
Since introducing the assist for devoted vSphere clouds as a replication vacation spot, we’ve prolonged the record of accessible options with each new launch. This one is not any exception and brings a number of important enhancements:
- Restoration Plans to outline the failover order of the replicated VMs the identical method it’s completed for VMware Cloud Director clouds
- Bandwidth throttling to implement visitors limits on a selected 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 function to examine for template modifications 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 moderen model.
Together with all talked about, we’ve 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 look for all instances:
- 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 primarily based on the replication settings
- Supply and vacation spot community mappings enable community mapping per VM
One other new function is the Visitor Customization International Setting, which may management the Visitor Customization Settings – activated or deactivated for all new replications. It might nonetheless be overwritten by the Restoration Settings of every replication.
Auditing can be improved with all the brand new occasions added to the VMware Cloud Director audit path, reminiscent of logins/logouts, settings modifications, equipment configuration, and many others. You possibly can evaluation 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 accessible occasions and actions, together with replication-related info.
As well as, each tenants and Cloud Suppliers can subscribe to obtain a weekly exercise abstract by way of e-mail. The Cloud Suppliers can manually generate this new report by 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 confer with the improve documentation.
VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.6 Release notes
VMware Cloud Director Availability Interoperability Matrix
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