Together with the already introduced enhancements to vSphere DR and Migration and the set of Supplier-oriented options, VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.5 additionally brings some extra operational enhancements.
One of the crucial thrilling new options is the brand new restoration settings menu that provides an entire set of replication customizations primarily based on the VMware Cloud Director Visitor Customization settings.
Up to now variations, customers might solely specify the community settings and the pc title. Now, all of the out there Visitor Customization settings could be configured, corresponding to altering the pc title or SID, resetting the administrator password, becoming a member of a website, and even specifying a script to be executed on the recovered VM on the vacation spot web site for extra modifications. Setting the trail to the script shouldn’t be supported. As an alternative, the script code needs to be provided.
Primarily based on the Visitor OS, the script needs to be a batch file for Home windows digital machines and a shell script for Unix digital machines. Examples could be discovered on this KB.
There’s additionally an choice to make use of the supply settings if the replication is carried out between two VMware Cloud Director clouds. It preserves the Visitor Customization properties of the supply VM.
You may nonetheless outline completely different settings for testing and failover/migration. There’s additionally a replica button that you need to use for copying the settings to the check tab as an alternative of configuring them as soon as once more for the properties that you simply wish to be equivalent.
Along with the prevailing VM placement coverage choice, in VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.5, a VM Sizing coverage could be chosen from the record of obtainable ones through the replication configuration wizard.
The choices to select from are none for circumstances one shouldn’t be used, the default coverage for the group, or a selected one from the record of obtainable insurance policies.
Primarily based on the VM Sizing coverage, the recovered VM is allotted particular compute assets predefined by the Cloud Supplier.
One other new factor that’s launched by VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.5 is Function-Primarily based Entry Management. There are two new roles out there in VMware Cloud Director for the Group Administrator to assign to the Group customers: View and Modify.
VCDA_MODIFY_RIGHT function grants administrative rights for all VMware Cloud Director Availability operations, much like the Group Administrator.
VCDA_READ_RIGHT function permits solely viewing however not modifying the incoming/outgoing replications, their restoration settings, the peer websites, and so forth.
To get began with the brand new roles, the System Administrator must create a brand new rights bundle that accommodates them and publish it to the related tenants.
Then, the Group Administrator can create new roles primarily based on these rights and assign them to customers.
Please take into account that assigning each VCDA_MODIFY_RIGHT and VCDA_READ_RIGHT roles to a consumer will allow read-write entry to VMware Cloud Director Availability for it. Assigning the Group Administrator function together with VCDA_READ_RIGHT will lead to the identical.
This instance exhibits the distinction in viewing the Incoming Replications as a consumer with VCDA_MODIFY_RIGHT (or Group Administrator) function and a consumer with VCDA_READ_RIGHT function.
VCDA_MODIFY_RIGHT:
VCDA_READ_RIGHT:
Such a view-only consumer could be utilized for monitoring or reviewing functions with out risking any adjustments to the replications and their settings. It is likely to be sensible for cloud suppliers who run a managed service on behalf of their tenants.
The System Well being view additionally obtained enhanced with some new details about the uptime of every service and equipment. It’s out there for all cloud and on-premises home equipment.
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