It’s only been a few weeks since our January update, and in that time VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4. was made generally available on February 10th. The key focus of this month’s VMware Validated Solutions update has been to validate our solutions with this latest release of VMware Cloud Foundation. Highlights for this Validated Solutions update include:
- Additional support for VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4.0
- Additional automation across solutions based on the PowerValidatedSolutions v1.4.0 release
Added Support for VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4.0
We are delighted to announce support for VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4.0 for the following Validated Solutions:
- Identity and Access Management for VMware Cloud Foundation
- Developer Ready Infrastructure for VMware Cloud Foundation
- Intelligent Logging and Analytics for VMware Cloud Foundation
- Intelligent Operations Management for VMware Cloud Foundation
- Private Cloud Automation for VMware Cloud Foundation
- Site Protection and Disaster Recovery for VMware Cloud Foundation
- Advanced Load Balancer for VMware Cloud Foundation
Identity and Access Management for VMware Cloud Foundation
- Added a procedure for configuring a Ping adapter for the standalone Workspace ONE Access.
- Uses PowerValidatedSolutions PowerShell module version 1.4.0.
- Validated solution now requires installation of the ImportExcel PowerShell module, when reading directly from the Planning and Preparation Workbook.
Developer Ready Infrastructure for VMware Cloud Foundation
- Enhanced all Developer Ready Infrastructure Solution cmdlets for better error handling and message output
- Added Undo cmdlets to allow the rollback of procedures.
- Uses PowerValidatedSolutions PowerShell module version 1.4.0.
- Validated solution now requires installation of the ImportExcel PowerShell module, when reading directly from the Planning and Preparation Workbook.
Intelligent Logging and Analytics for VMware Cloud Foundation Updates
- Starting with VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4, installation, and life cycle management of vRealize Log Insight is performed by using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.
- Uses PowerValidatedSolutions PowerShell module version 1.4.0.
- Validated solution now requires installation of the ImportExcel PowerShell module, when reading directly from the Planning and Preparation Workbook.
Intelligent Operations Management for VMware Cloud Foundation Updates
- Added a procedure for configuring Ping adapters for the clustered Workspace ONE Access.
- Starting with VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4, installation, and life cycle management of vRealize Operations Manager is performed by using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.
- Uses PowerValidatedSolutions PowerShell module version 1.4.0.
- Validated solution now requires installation of the ImportExcel PowerShell module, when reading directly from the Planning and Preparation Workbook.
Private Cloud Automation for VMware Cloud Foundation Updates
- Starting with VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4, installation, and life cycle management of vRealize Automation is performed by using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.
- Required storage for installation of vRealize Automation 8.6.2 is 738 GB compared to 708 GB for vRealize Automation 8.5 and earlier.
- Added design decision and procedure to install and use the vRealize Orchestrator content pack for vRealize Log Insight as part of the logging section in the solution.
- Uses PowerValidatedSolutions PowerShell module version 1.4.0.
- Validated solution now requires installation of the ImportExcel PowerShell module, when reading directly from the Planning and Preparation Workbook.
Site Protection and Disaster Recovery for VMware Cloud Foundation Updates
- Uses PowerValidatedSolutions PowerShell module version 1.4.0.
Advanced Load Balancer for VMware Cloud Foundation Updates
- Extend support for VMware Cloud Foundation 4.3.1 and 4.4.0.
- Enable support for Avi with Cloud Services (SaaS subscription).
General Availability of PowerValidatedSolutions v1.4.0
Release of PowerValidatedSolutions v1.4.0, which is a PowerShell module that we have developed to not only accelerate the implementation of Validated Solutions, but ensure consistency and robustness. Here’s a list of what’s changed (this and previous updates can be tracked by reading the CHANGELOG.md file stored in the Git Hub repository):
- Enhanced all Developer Ready Infrastructure Solution cmdlets for better error handling and message output.
- Added Undo-NetworkSegment cmdlet to remove an NSX segment from an NSX Management Cluster.
- Added Undo-PrefixList cmdlet to remove an NSX Prefix List from an NSX Management Cluster.
- Added Undo-RouteMap cmdlet to remove an NSX Route Map from an NSX Management Cluster.
- Added Undo-DatastoreTag cmdlet to remove the vSphere Tag and Category from a datastore in vCenter Server.
- Added Undo-StoragePolicy cmdlet to remove a VM vSphere Storage Policy from vCenter Server.
- Added Undo-Registry cmdlet to disable the Embedded Harbor Registry on the Supervisor Cluster.
- Added Undo-SupervisorCluster cmdlet to remove the Supervisor Cluster.
- Added Undo-ContentLibrary cmdlet to remove a Content Library from the Workload Domain vCenter Server.
- Added Undo-Namespace cmdlet to remove a Namespace from the Supervisor Cluster.
- Added Undo-NamespacePermission cmdlet to remove permissions from a Namespace.
- Added Undo-TanzuKubernetesCluster cmdlet to remove a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster from the Supervisor Cluster.
- Added Add-NsxtNodeProfileSyslogExporter cmdlet to add a syslog exporter to the default node profile or specified node profile id.
- Added Undo-NsxtNodeProfileSyslogExporter cmdlet to remove all syslog exporter from the default node profile or specified node profile id.
