We’re glad to announce that the VMware Cloud Supplier Lifecycle Supervisor (VCPLCM) 1.4 is now typically accessible for our Cloud Suppliers. With this launch, we proceed to ship operational simplicity together with the enhancements that allow our Cloud Suppliers to enhance and ship seamless and safe companies to their clients.
What’s new with 1.4?
Simplified Operations
The wait is over!! The foremost addition on this model is the “import operation” , in contrast to earlier ones, now you can import an present product with just a few particulars – only a matter a couple of clicks within the UI – that permits Cloud Suppliers to are wanted to import a product and handle brownfield environments utilizing VCPLCM.
Below Environments, Click on on Register Surroundings to import a product and handle.
Day-2 Operations assist by GUI
This launch brings many characteristic enhancements to shut the hole between the API and GUI features. Cloud Suppliers can now use the GUI to operationalize Day 2 duties like:
- Product Upgrades
- Certificates Administration
- Node Administration
The ‘Uncover’ characteristic has been launched to trace the modifications or modifications made to the deployed product and sync it with the Lifecycle Supervisor Repository.
Now you can uncover modifications made to the deployed product in an atmosphere and a registered datacenter. To know extra about Datacenter, please confer with the VMware Documentation.
Concurrent Activity Execution
This new characteristic tremendously decreases the supply instances as Cloud Suppliers needn’t await a job to finish to begin one other, as VCPLCM 1.4 is able to operating a number of duties for various merchandise concurrently. This may be useful particularly if you find yourself upgrading a number of product deployments concurrently. Customers can request duties in sequence, ought to there be no free “execution slot” will probably be queued and executed as soon as potential.
Detailed Product View
With numerous merchandise and variations deployed, it consumes effort to maintain observe of the main points of all of the parts. This enhancement helps Cloud Suppliers to view product particulars which might be operating of their environments – deployed or registered product specs – by clicking Open (as proven in Fig. 1) and the identical is relevant for registered Datacenter(s)
Improved Troubleshooting
With model 1.4 you may retrieve logs and error messages simply utilizing GUI and API as towards its predecessors the place, one needed to log in to the VCPLCM host through SSH to retrieve logs. We’ve got launched separate log recordsdata corresponding to every job ID for ease of troubleshooting (Fig. 1a).
We’ve got additionally offered the choice to generate a assist bundle to retrieve all vital log and config recordsdata bundled in an archive by API and GUI. (Fig. 1c)
In-place Interop Bundle Replace
Model 1.4 simplifies the method of checking and deploying Interop Bundles. You possibly can verify the supply of the most recent interop bundle and replace it from the UI, the place now we have offered choices like Test for Interop Bundle Replace and Replace Interop Bundle below Administration tab (Fig 2a).
To additional simplify, now we have launched a banner which shall be introduced once you log in to GUI that will periodically verify the supply of the most recent interop bundle and immediate you to replace in order that your VCPLCM host is updated.
Please word, that this perform requires VCPLCM host wants VMware Buyer Join to entry for respective binaries.
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