VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.1 Release Notes

VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.1 | 31 JAN 2023 | Build 21143829 Check for additions and updates to these release notes.

About VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions

VMware Cloud Director extension for VMware Data Solutions extends VMware Cloud Director's multi-tenant-safe cloud consumption surface to VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes, VMware SQL with Postgres for Kubernetes and VMware SQL with MySQL for Kubernetes support.

VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions offers a simple tenant-facing self-service UI for the lifecycle management of these data services with a single view across multiple instances, and with URL to individual instances for service specific management. Service instances are deployed in the service provider’s VMware Cloud Director-managed VMware vSphere or VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on-premises infrastructure. The full stack – management to individual data services – is VMware-supported and available on a consumption basis. Service providers have a choice to offer VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions as self-service to data-experienced tenant customers, as a managed data service, or as a sovereign cloud data service.

What's New

VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.1 introduces the following new capabilities:

• Support for VMware SQL with Postgres for Kubernetes and VMware SQL with MySQL for Kubernetes

  VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.1 introduces VMware SQL with Postgres for Kubernetes and VMware SQL with MySQL for Kubernetes. Tenants are now able to easily provision and manage MySQL databases and Postgres SQL databases within their organizations. As with VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes, the SQL instances are containerized and are deployed within CSE-created Kubernetes clusters.

• Upgrade of data solution instances

  With VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions, tenants can upgrade the versions of the different data solution instances.

• VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions Operator installation

  Tenants can prepare CSE Kubernetes clusters for VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions by installing a VMware Cloud Data Solutions operator. 

  The VMware Cloud Director Data Solutions operator (DSO) is a backend service, which runs within each tenant Kubernetes cluster. DSO manages the lifecycle of user resources in Kubernetes clusters upon user requests, sent through VMware Cloud Director Runtime Defined Entities (RDE). The resources include both data solution operators like VMware RabbitMQ operators for Kubernetes and data solution instances like VMware RabbitMQ instances. It deploys, upgrades and updates various data solutions in Kubernetes clusters on behalf of the user.

  Tenants can delete the DSO, if it is no longer required.

Upgrade

You can updage to VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.1 from version 1.0. See Upgrade VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions.

Supported Browsers

VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions is compatible with the current major and previous major release of the following browsers:

• Google Chrome

• Mozilla Firefox

• Microsoft Edge

Note: You access VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions by using the VMware Cloud Director service provider admin and tenant portals. The Web browsers that VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions supports depend on the VMware Cloud Director version that you run.

Caveats and Limitations

• Installation on MacOS fails with an error

  When you attempt to install VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions on MacOS, you receive the following error messages:

  macOS cannot verify the developer of darwin.run

  and

  macOS cannot verify the developer of hook

  You must authorize the permission to an unidentified developer temporarily. The permission is open for short period. If the permission error occurs again, you need to re-authorize the temporary permission in MacOS. See Open a Mac app from an unidentified developer in the MacOS User Guide.

• Grafana/Prometheus does not work with VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes cluster instances, when using self-signed certificates and enabled TLS

  To monitor TLS-enabled VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes cluster instances, you must make an additional configuration of Prometheus. You must use the scrape target rabbitmq-https, which is defined in the Prometheus config file for RabbitMQ. See Monitor RabbitMQ Without Prometheus Operator in the RabbitMQ documentation.

Documentation

In addition to the current release notes, you can use the VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions documentation set at VMware Cloud Director extension for VMware Data Solutions Documentation.

Known Issues

• The Data Solutions Operator deployment fails

  When you attempt to deploy the Data Solutions Operator to an organization with a name, which is only in numeric characters, for example 123456, the DSO installation result does not appear as Active in the Kubernetes Clusters page.

  Workaround: Change the name of the organization, so that it also includes alphabetic characters.

• VMware SQL with MySQL for Kubernetes instance deletion takes too long

  When you attempt to delete a VMware SQL with MySQL for Kubernetes solution instance, the deletion process takes too long.

  Workaround: Delete the VMware SQL with MySQL for Kubernetes instance directly from the cluster by using the command kubectl delete mysql <instance_name>

• VMware SQL with MySQL for Kubernetes instance stuck on Pending status after solution operator upgrade

  When you attempt to upgrade the VMware SQL with MySQL for Kubernetes solution operator from 1.5 to version 1.6, the solution instance is stuck on Pending status.

  Workaround: After you upgrade the solution operator, upgrade the instance to the same version or later.