We’re glad to announce that VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 is now Typically Out there as of December 8, 2022. With this announcement, we usher in some new options and improve some present ones.
Networking Updates
AVI Clear Load Balancing:
Clear 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 aim of Clear Load Balancing is to go the IP tackle of the consumer to the actual server. The method is designed to manage the stream of the info path such that every one communication from the consumer 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 consumer’s IP tackle. To spherical out the clear load balancing characteristic, VMware Cloud Director now permits quite a lot of actual service “teams” 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 Suppliers is not going to be based mostly on AVI licensing degree however on the supplier’s utilization of Premium or Commonplace characteristic units. VCD manages these characteristic units by a setting on the SEG indicating whether or not or not the SEG and any related gateway assist Premium or Commonplace characteristic 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 degree. VCD will facilitate this by tagging the SEG’s VCD Service Degree inside AVI.
A use case for automated assortment for UM 4.7 and VMware Chargeback.
IP Title House (Rolling updates)
In VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1, we’ve got launched an improved IP Deal with Administration service within the type of IP Title Areas. IP Title Areas is a brand new assemble meant to supply a structured method to allocating Public and Non-public IP addresses throughout Organizations with a particular deal with the Supplier 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 Group VDCs.
IP Title Areas provides tenant-level observability to the T0/VRF and, with that, the power for the Service Supplier to produce allotted Public IP addresses to every group within the type of IP Prefixes (for networks) and IP Ranges for community providers. The allocation of Public IP addresses is backed by Service Supplier assigned quotas for every group. The tenant can devour Public IP addresses for Supplier T0/VRF interfaces till both the quota is reached or the availability has been exhausted. IP Names Areas will be named by the Service Supplier 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 Title House to a regional digital knowledge heart.
Moreover, the tenant can use IP Title Areas for personal addressing. The tenant can create non-public IP names to be used on Group VDC networks. There are not any quotas on non-public IP namespaces. IP Title Areas 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 (Exterior Community to Edge)
Now you can join Exterior Networks backed by NSX-T segments to Edge Gateways.
Service Accounts Multisite Support
The service account now helps multisite. Be certain that the positioning affiliation has been configured appropriately and on the time of making a brand new consumer on web site 2, be certain that to make use of the identical software program ID as of the service account on web site 1.
Resolution Add-On Administration
VMware Cloud Director supplies quite a few extensibility mechanisms like UI plugins, Runtime-Outlined entities, API providers and so forth. Many of the options delivered as value-added providers in VCD encompass a number of extensibility components. For instance, If we’re extending the VCD native UI with a UI plugin, we’ll almost definitely have a backed service within the type of VM or containers. Normally, the deployment and configuration of an answer consisting of a number of handbook steps are liable to human error.
The VCD extensibility SDK improves the supply and lifecycle of Resolution Add-Ons by offering a platform for constructing, packaging, putting in and configuring a number of extensibility components. It delivers a one-click set up and configuration expertise on your entire resolution with no further steps.
Remap Customers between Identification Suppliers (Deprecation of Native Customers) (API solely)
Saying depreciation of native customers in VMware Cloud Director. Nonetheless, native customers will nonetheless be supported as it’s for at the very least 18+ months till the ultimate bulletins.
Native consumer migration to SAML, LDAP or OIDC is supported. Make sure the Identification supplier (IDP) is configured and accessible throughout the group. It’s essential to migrate the customers throughout the Identification suppliers utilizing API calls.
Usecase: Typically, native customers have been a part of VCD since VCD 1.0. They supply 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, measurement or complexity necessities, lockout and unlock procedures, and so forth.), no choice for 2FA/MFA, biometrics, and so forth. So to beat these limitations, this venture was began.
New Branding & Theming Expertise
A totally new consumer interface the place suppliers can create, handle and assign themes for his or her tenants and the supplier portal. The UI supplies a dwell preview of the Cloud Director portal’s look and feels when altering the theming, branding, hyperlinks and menus.
Please Be aware:
- The Branding & Theming is launched as an Alpha characteristic 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 previous branding APIs can also be potential.
Assist for EFI boot and Safe Boot
Cloud Director permits the creation of a brand new VM with both BIOS or EFI boot firmware. If EFI is chosen, then, SecureBoot will be enabled. SecureBoot, together with EFI, supplies robust assurance that the firmware code is verified and trusted.
- The safe Boot choice can solely be enabled on Digital Machines which have
- EFI firmware
- Digital {hardware} model 13 or later
- The working system that helps UEFI safe boot.
Assist for vSphere 8.0
VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 brings assist for vSphere 8.0.
Assist for NSX 4.0.1
VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 brings assist for NSX 4.0.1.
UI Enhancements
- Adjustments within the Networking steps when making a vApp from the template wizard
- Present switch velocity for transferred objects when syncing a catalog
- Present the general progress of duties within the Activity Steps tab
- Legacy Console Proxy is now not obtainable and doesn’t seem within the checklist of options beneath Function Flags.
Common Updates
- Open API Certificates Format Change
- Embedded database upgraded to PostgreSQL 14
- Improved Database Password Safety
Different Helpful Assets:
You possibly can obtain VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 binaries from right here.
To be taught extra about VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1, please use the next sources: Launch notes, Product Documentation and the Net Web page.
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