The VMware Cloud Foundation team is proud to announce general availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 3.11. The VMware Cloud Foundation 3.11 release includes the following:
- Security fixes for Apache Log4j Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: This release fixes CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046. See VMSA-2021-0028 for more information.
- Security fixes for Apache HTTP Server: This release fixes CVE-2021-40438. See VMSA-2021-0020 for more information.
- Improvements to upgrade prechecks: Upgrade prechecks have been expanded to verify filesystem capacity, file permissions, and passwords. These improved prechecks help identify issues that you need to resolve to ensure a smooth upgrade.
- Skip-level upgrade to VMware Cloud Foundation 3.11: Upgrade directly to VMware Cloud Foundation 3.11 using the skip-level upgrade CLI tool, which has been updated with additional guardrails, prechecks, and usability improvements.
- Scaling improvements: VMware Cloud Foundation 3.11 supports up to 1000 ESXi hosts per SDDC Manager instance. See VMware Configuration Maximums for details on all supported maximums.
- BOM Updates: Updated Bill of Materials with new product versions, including ESXi 6.7 EP23, vCenter Server 6.7 U3q, NSX-v 6.4.12 and NSX-T 3.0.3.1, vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 2.1 Patch3, and VMware Horizon 7.10.3.
Upgrades
VMware Cloud Foundation 3.11 can either be upgraded from VMware Cloud Foundation 3.10.2.2 (sequential upgrade) or from VMware Cloud Foundation 3.5 or later (skip-level upgrade). It cannot be deployed as a new release. VMware Cloud Foundation 3.11 is supported as a source version for migration to VMware Cloud Foundation 4.x.
Supported Hardware
For details on vSAN Ready Nodes in Cloud Foundation, see VMware Compatibility Guide (VCG) for vSAN and the Hardware Requirements section in the VMware Cloud Foundation Planning and Preparation Guide.
Documentation
Read about what’s new, learn about what was fixed, and find workarounds for known issues in the VMware Cloud Foundation 3.11 release notes. An FAQ for Cloud Foundation 3.11 is available here.
To access the Cloud Foundation 3.11 documentation, go to the VMware Cloud Foundation product documentation.
To access the documentation for VMware software products that SDDC Manager can deploy, see the product documentation, using the drop-down menu on the page to choose the appropriate version:
- VMware vSphere product documentation, also has documentation about ESXi and vCenter Server
- VMware vSAN product documentation
- VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere product documentation
- VMware NSX-T Data Center product documentation
- VMware vRealize Log Insight product documentation
- VMware vRealize Automation product documentation
- VMware vRealize Operations Manager documentation
- VMware Horizon 7 documentation
