| VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.7.2 | 04 JUL 2024 | Build 24058656 (Product version: 4.7.2.10056114-4ada44c9c3) Check for additions and updates to these release notes. |
What's new
VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.7.2 includes important resolved issues and updates of third-party libraries that provide security fixes.
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Added support for protection and migration of virtual machines with enabled vTPM, and with full, partial, or no encryption of the attached storage disks.
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Added support for encryption of non-encrypted VM as a part of the protection or migration process.
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Added support for protection or migration processes with storage policies that use mixed encryption capabilities.
Upgrade
VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.7.2 supports an in-place upgrade directly from versions 4.5.x, 4.6.x, 4.7, and 4.7.1.
For information about the upgrade process, see Upgrading in the Cloud Director site and Upgrading on-premises and provider site.
APIs
The step-by-step guides to configure a deployed appliance by using APIs are available at VMware Cloud Director Availability Cloud Director DR and Migration API Reference and VMware Cloud Director Availability vSphere DR and Migration API Reference.
Configuration maximums
For information about the tested and verified uptime, concurrency, and scale limits, see VMware Configuration Maximums.
Caveats and limitations
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When replicating a VM with enabled vTPM, the VM must follow an encrypted storage policy.
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Encryption of an attached storage disk during the replication process is supported only when the configuration files of the VM are encrypted and the VM follows an encrypted storage policy at the destination site.
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Replication of an encrypted VM, originally protected or migrated as a non-encrypted VM, is not supported.
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For replications using the Classic data engine, VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.7.2 uses vSphere Replication module called Host-based Replication (HBR) version 9.0.1. For information about its inherited caveats and limitations, see the vSphere Replication 9.0.1 Release Notes.
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With deactivated telemetry in VMware Cloud Director 10.5 and later, when opening VMware Cloud Director Availability from the plug-in in VMware Cloud Director, providing Feedback is not possible.
Resolved issues
The following issues have been resolved in this release.
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When using seed disks, you cannot create a virtual machine replication from a Cloud Director site to an on-premises site
This issue is fixed in this release.
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When using the default online repository, upgrading VMware Cloud Director Availability might fail
The default online repository of VMware Cloud Director Availability changed to
https://packages-prod.broadcom.com/vcav/. When VMware Cloud Director Availability tries to access the legacy repository, the upgrade process might fail. This issue is fixed in this release. -
After a migration from an on-premises site to a Cloud Director site, the network settings of the new VM are missing
When using VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.7 and later to migrate a VM from an on-premises site to a Cloud Director site with version 10.5.1 and later, and with enabled Replication tracking placement solution, the NIC adapter type of the new VM changes from VMXNET3 to E1000, which results in losing all network settings from the source VM. This issue is fixed in this release.
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Replicating workloads to a Cloud Director site might fail
When performing a protection or migration to a Cloud Director site and a source VM has attached storage disks with the same name on different datastores, VMware Cloud Director Availability attempts to recreate the disks with the same name on the destination, which results in the replication process failing with an error message: Unable to create replica placeholder disk. This issue is fixed in this release.
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This release resolves CVE-2024-22277
For more information on this vulnerability and its impact on VMware by Broadcom products, see VMSA-2024-0016.
Known issues
There are no known issues identified in this release.
