VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.2 Release Notes

VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.2 | 18 JUL 2023 | Build 22062036 Check for additions and updates to these release notes.

About VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions

VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions offers a simple tenant-facing self-service UI for the lifecycle management of data solutions 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.

This extension widens VMware Cloud Director's multi-tenant-safe cloud consumption surface to support the following data solutions on Kubernetes:

• VMware RabbitMQ

• VMware SQL with Postgres and VMware SQL with MySQL

• Mongo DB Enterprise Advanced and Community editions

What's New

VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.2 introduces the following new capabilities:

• Support for MongoDB Enterprise Advanced Edition

  • Service Providers can configure a repository, sizing templates and publish MongoDB Enterprise Advanced Edition for Kubernetes to their tenant organizations.

  • Tenants can create and manage MongoDB instances with secure connection to MongoDB Ops Manager.

• Support for MongoDB Community Edition

  • Service Providers can review sizing templates and publish MongoDB Community Edition for Kubernetes to their tenant organizations.

  • Tenants can create and manage MongoDB Community instances.

• Multi-language support

  The user interface is available in English, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Italian, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese.

Upgrade

You can upgrade to VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.2 from versions 1.X. 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.

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

• 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.