We are joyful to announce that VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 is now Generally Available as of December 8, 2022. With this announcement, we herald some new options and improve some present ones.
Networking Updates
AVI Transparent Load Balancing:
Transparent Load Balancing has been added to VMware Cloud Director to shut a niche between Cloud Director backed by NSX-V and Cloud Director backed by NSX-T. The objective of Transparent Load Balancing is to go the IP deal with of the shopper to the actual server. The strategy is designed to manage the circulation of the info path such that each one communication from the shopper to the actual server flows by the Load Balancer. When the digital service is created within the tenant portal, there may be an choice to protect the shopper’s IP deal with. To spherical out the clear load balancing function, VMware Cloud Director now permits quite a lot of actual service “groups” to be added to digital service. These embrace IP units and dynamic and static teams.
SEG tagging for monitoring
In 10.4.0, VCPP companions utilizing VCD ought to set up and configure NSXT ALB (AVI) with Enterprise Licensing. Chargers to Providers won’t be based mostly on AVI licensing stage however on the supplier’s utilization of Premium or Standard function units. VCD manages these function units by a setting on the SEG indicating whether or not or not the SEG and any related gateway help Premium or Standard function units. For this to work, the NSXT ALB (Avi) billing crew wants to find out service core consumption inside an SEG of a particular service stage. VCD will facilitate this by tagging the SEG’s VCD Service Level inside AVI.
A use case for automated assortment for UM 4.7 and VMware Chargeback.
IP Name Space (Rolling updates)
In VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1, we’ve got launched an improved IP Address Management service within the type of IP Name Spaces. IP Name Spaces is a brand new assemble supposed to offer a structured strategy to allocating Public and Private IP addresses throughout Organizations with a particular concentrate on the Provider T0 Gateway. VMware Cloud Director IP namespace is designed to simplify the allocation and consumption of IP ranges and prefixes by stopping overlapping IP addresses throughout Organizations or Organization VDCs.
IP Name Spaces provides tenant-level observability to the T0/VRF and, with that, the power for the Service Provider to produce allotted Public IP addresses to every group within the type of IP Prefixes (for networks) and IP Ranges for community companies. The allocation of Public IP addresses is backed by Service Provider assigned quotas for every group. The tenant can devour Public IP addresses for Provider T0/VRF interfaces till both the quota is reached or the provision has been exhausted. IP Names Spaces may be named by the Service Provider to point the geographic affinity of the Public IP prefixes (e.g. Public_West, Public_East) to information the tenant in making use of a given IP Name Space to a regional digital knowledge middle.
Additionally, the tenant can use IP Name Spaces for personal addressing. The tenant can create non-public IP names to be used on Organization VDC networks. There are not any quotas on non-public IP namespaces. IP Name Spaces will proceed to evolve throughout future releases of VCD to additional simplify the method of including tenant Organizations to VCD by automating a lot of the configuration of T0/VRF.
L2 options (External Network to Edge)
You can now join External Networks backed by NSX-T segments to Edge Gateways.
Service Accounts Multisite Support
The service account now helps multisite. Make certain the location affiliation has been configured appropriately and on the time of making a brand new person on web site 2, make certain to make use of the identical software program ID as of the service account on web site 1.
Solution Add-On Management
VMware Cloud Director gives quite a few extensibility mechanisms like UI plugins, Runtime-Defined entities, API companies and many others. Most of the options delivered as value-added companies in VCD encompass a number of extensibility parts. For instance, If we’re extending the VCD native UI with a UI plugin, we are going to most certainly have a backed service within the type of VM or containers. Usually, the deployment and configuration of an answer consisting of a number of guide steps are susceptible to human error.
The VCD extensibility SDK improves the supply and lifecycle of Solution Add-Ons by offering a platform for constructing, packaging, putting in and configuring a number of extensibility parts. It delivers a one-click set up and configuration expertise on your entire resolution with no additional steps.
Remap Users between Identity Providers (Deprecation of Local Users) (API solely)
Announcing depreciation of native customers in VMware Cloud Director. However, native customers will nonetheless be supported as it’s for not less than 18+ months till the ultimate bulletins.
Local person migration to SAML, LDAP or OIDC is supported. Ensure the Identity supplier (IDP) is configured and accessible inside the group. You have to migrate the customers throughout the Identity suppliers utilizing API calls.
Usecase: Generally, native customers have been a part of VCD since VCD 1.0. They present a primary system of storing usernames and passwords securely hashed in VCD. There are not any trendy password administration insurance policies in place (e.g. password rotation, dimension or complexity necessities, lockout and unlock procedures, and many others.), no possibility for 2FA/MFA, biometrics, and many others. So to beat these limitations, this undertaking was began.
New Branding & Theming Experience
A totally new person interface the place suppliers can create, handle and assign themes for his or her tenants and the supplier portal. The UI gives a stay preview of the Cloud Director portal’s look and feels when altering the theming, branding, hyperlinks and menus.
Please Note:
- The Branding & Theming is launched as an Alpha function and must be enabled by suppliers. This motion will end result within the default gentle theme being assigned for the supplier and throughout all organizations.
- Migration of the themes created with the outdated branding APIs can also be potential.
Support for EFI boot and Secure Boot
Cloud Director permits the creation of a brand new VM with both BIOS or EFI boot firmware. If EFI is chosen, then, SecureBoot may be enabled. SecureBoot, together with EFI, gives sturdy assurance that the firmware code is verified and trusted.
- The safe Boot possibility can solely be enabled on Virtual Machines which have
- EFI firmware
- Virtual {hardware} model 13 or later
- The working system that helps UEFI safe boot.
Fast Cross vCenter Instantiation (Enhancement)
Fast cross-vCenter instantiation was launched in Cloud Director 10.4, permitting fast instantiating vApps from catalog templates throughout vCenter boundaries. The present launch provides quick instantiation for ISO photographs, such that ISO photographs hosted in a catalog can be utilized for instantiating a brand new VM in a distinct vCenter so long as shared NFS storage is on the market between the catalog’s vCenter and the vacation spot vCenter.
Support for vSphere 8.0
VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 brings help for vSphere 8.0.
Support for NSX 4.0.1
VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 brings help for NSX 4.0.1.
UI Enhancements
- Changes within the Networking steps when making a vApp from the template wizard
- Show switch pace for transferred objects when syncing a catalog
- Show the general progress of duties within the Task Steps tab
- Legacy Console Proxy is now not obtainable and doesn’t seem within the checklist of options beneath Feature Flags.
General Updates
- Open API Certificate Format Change
- Embedded database upgraded to PostgreSQL 14
- Improved Database Password Security
Other Useful Resources:
You can obtain VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 binaries from right here.
To study extra about VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1, please use the next assets: Release notes, Product Documentation and the Web Page.
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