| VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.5.0.1 | 23 FEB 2023 | Build 21291908 (Product version: 4.5.0.5855303-21231906fd) Check for additions and updates to these release notes. |
| VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.5.0.1 | 23 FEB 2023 | Build 21291908 (Product version: 4.5.0.5855303-21231906fd) Check for additions and updates to these release notes. |
VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.5.0.1 includes important resolved issues.
VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.5.0.1 supports an in-place upgrade directly from versions 4.3.x, 4.4.x, and 4.5.0.
For information about the upgrade process, see Upgrading in the Cloud Director Site and Upgrading On-premises and Provider Site.
Note:When upgrading from 4.3.x or 4.4.x:
vSphere DR and migration between vCenter Server sites requires when upgrading that both sites upgrade to version 4.5.0.1 or 4.5.0. After upgrading one of the sites, the existing replications continue to replicate and the workloads can be recovered in case of disaster. The other site must be upgraded before creating new replications or new pairing or before performing any management tasks. After upgrading both sites to version 4.5.0.1 or 4.5.0, as a tenant you must Re-pair with the provider site. For information about re-pairing from the tenant site, see step 3 in Repair a Site.
Also for vSphere DR and migration, if using a single-sign-on administrator user with custom privileges in vSphere, you must add the StorageViews.View privilege. For information about all the required vSphere privileges, see Users Roles Rights and Sessions in the Security Guide.
For replications using the VMC data engine, after an upgrade to 4.5.0.1 or 4.5.0 you must regenerate each Replicator Service certificate. For information about replacing these certificates, see Replace the Replicator Service Certificate.
For the tested uptime, concurrency, and scale limits, see VMware configuration maximums.
For replications using the Classic data engine, VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.5.0.1 uses vSphere Replication module called Host-based Replication (HBR) version 8.6. For information about its inherited caveats and limitations, see vSphere Replication 8.6 Release Notes.
The VMware Cloud Director Availability vSphere Client Plug-In requires vSphere Client support. When using an earlier vSphere version:
To configure replications, use the VMware Cloud Director Availability Tenant Portal.
Alternatively, in VMware Cloud Director use the VMware Cloud Director Availability plug-in.
In on-premises sites backed by VMware Cloud Director, to access the VMware Cloud Director Availability vSphere Client Plug-In in previous versions, the tenants had to authenticate with a user member of the Administrators group. Since version 4.5.0, once configured with the vCenter Server Lookup Service, the On-Premises to Cloud Director Replication Appliance creates the VrOnpremUsers group. Membership of this group allows access to the VMware Cloud Director Availability vSphere Client Plug-In.
For interoperability between paired sites with mismatching VMware Cloud Director Availability versions, see Managing Pairing with Cloud Director sites.
For interoperability between VMware Cloud Director Availability and other VMware products, see the VMware product interoperability matrix.
The following issues have been resolved in this release.
Cannot change from password to key-based SFTP authentication
For a scheduled backup, attempting to change the SFTP server authentication method from password-based to key-based has no effect and VCDA continues to use the previously saved password-based authentication.
For encrypted replications VMware Cloud Director does not report the storage space that is taken
In VMware Cloud Director, you cannot see the storage space consumed by encrypted replications.
Cannot configure the Cloud Director Replication Management Appliance with VMware Cloud Director if the Tunnel Appliance cannot connect to it
When the Tunnel Appliance has no connectivity to the local VMware Cloud Director in the cloud site, you cannot configure the Cloud Director Replication Management Appliance with the same VMware Cloud Director.
Randomly ordered cloud sites in drop-down menus
In the New replication wizard, on the Replications page, and in the Tasks pane, the drop-down menus that list the paired cloud sites are not sorted and show the cloud sites in random order on every page visit.
Note: The on-premises sites are always sorted by name.
