We are completely happy to announce that VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.6 is now Generally Available as of June 15, 2023.
This new launch combines new performance with operational enhancements to offer Cloud Providers and their tenants a fair smoother expertise whereas replicating workloads.
The Tunnel equipment is accountable for dealing with all of the replication administration and knowledge visitors making it a important a part of the VMware Cloud Director Availability structure. Before 4.6, solely a single Tunnel equipment was supported to be a part of the setup, which many Cloud Providers thought of a possible bottleneck for the standard of their DR companies.
The Tunnel Appliance High Availability addresses that concern by permitting a second Tunnel equipment to be deployed. The two function in Active / Active mode and require an exterior load balancer (for instance, VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer).
We will publish a weblog put up shortly to recommend totally different design choices and comprise every thing in regards to the configuration.
Note: This structure is just out there for VMware Cloud Director clouds.
Since introducing the assist for devoted vSphere clouds as a replication vacation spot, we now have prolonged the record of obtainable options with each new launch. This one is not any exception and brings a number of vital enhancements:
- Recovery Plans to outline the failover order of the replicated VMs the identical manner it’s completed for VMware Cloud Director clouds
- Bandwidth throttling to implement visitors limits on a particular community interface of the Tunnel equipment
- Public API, which was lacking earlier than. Please test 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 test 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 moderen model.
Along with all talked about, we now have additionally improved product administration and operability.
For clouds working 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 means 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 Recovery Settings, resulting in a extra unified feel and look for all circumstances:
- For on-premises to cloud replications (Cloud Director vacation spot clouds), the supply and the vacation spot networks will be mapped, equally to cloud-to-cloud replications
- For vSphere DR and migration:
- Recovery settings are validated primarily based on the replication settings
- Source and vacation spot community mappings enable community mapping per VM
Another new function is the Guest Customization Global Setting, which may management the Guest Customization Settings – activated or deactivated for all new replications. It can nonetheless be overwritten by way of the Recovery Settings of every replication.
Auditing can also be improved with all the brand new occasions added to the VMware Cloud Director audit path, equivalent to logins/logouts, settings adjustments, equipment configuration, and so forth. You can evaluation and export these from the VMware Cloud Director Events console. This is extraordinarily helpful across the Sovereign Cloud initiative.
The notifications additionally get refined in VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.6. The electronic mail channel is prolonged and might now be used for transmitting messages about all of the out there occasions and actions, together with replication-related data.
In addition, each tenants and Cloud Providers can subscribe to obtain a weekly exercise abstract through electronic mail. The Cloud Providers 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 could 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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