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VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.5 | 23 JUL 2024 | Build 24125353

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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.

  • VMware RabbitMQ

  • VMware SQL with Postgres and VMware SQL with MySQL

  • Mongo DB Enterprise Advanced and Community editions

  • Apache Kafka - Confluent Platform

  • VMware Data Services Manager Postgres

  • VMware Data Services Manager MySQL

What's New

VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.5 introduces the following new capabilities:

  • Access Control of Data Instances

    VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.5 allows data instance owner and users with Full Control permission to manage the access control of the instance.

  • VMware Data Services Manager Integration

    VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.5 adds two new data solution types, that are a VM-based Postgres database and a MySQL database, provisioned by VMware Data Services Manager. Provider Administrators can configure VMware Data Services Manager for VMware Cloud Director and publish the two VM-based databases to tenants for consumption. Tenant users can create, update, delete, upgrade and backup VMware Data Services Manager Postgres and VMware Data Services Manager MySQL instances. 

  • Air-gapped Installation of the Data Solution Operator

    For a VMware Cloud Director environment that does not have outbound access to internet, Provider Administrators now can install VMware Cloud Director Extension for Data Solutions and its Kubernetes Operator in an air-gapped environment.

  • Provider Access to Tenant Data Solutions Portal

    VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.5 allows Provider Administrators to access tenant Data Solutions portal and perform tenant administrative operations.

Product Support Notices

  • Deprecation of localized languages

    Beginning with the next major release, we will be reducing the number of supported localization languages. The three supported languages will be:

    • Japanese

    • Spanish

    • French

    The following languages will no longer be supported: Brazilian Portuguese, German, Italian, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese.

    Impact:

    • Users who have been using the deprecated languages will no longer receive updates or support in these languages.

    • All user interfaces, help documentation, and customer support will be available only in English or in the three supported languages mentioned above.

Localization

VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.5 is available in the following languages:

  • English

  • French

  • German

  • Italian

  • Spanish

  • Brazilian Portuguese

  • Japanese

  • Korean

  • Traditional Chinese

  • Simplified Chinese

Upgrade

You can upgrade to VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions 1.5 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.

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

  • New - The provider cannot complete the onboarding process after installing VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions to VMware Cloud Director 10.6

    After you complete the VMware Cloud Director extension for Data Solutions installation successfuly and proceed to the onboarding process, the onboarding screen is stuck with no available data.

    Workaround: Log out and log in to the VMware Cloud Director provider portal again.

  • Upgrading the VMware RabbitMQ solution to version 3.12 fails with an error

    If you upgrade the VMware RabbitMQ solution to version 3.12, the Kubernetes pod crashes and the status message in the instance Resource Details tab is NoEndpointsAvailable: The service has no endpoints available.

    The issue is observed when the pre-upgrade actions are not completed. See Upgrading RabbitMQ in the VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes Product Documentation.

    Workaround 1:

    1. Enable all feature flags by using the entering the following command for the target RabbitMQ instance: rabbitmqctl enable_feature_flag all.

    2. Retry the VMware RabbitMQ solution upgrade to version 3.12.

    Workaround 2:

    1. Enable all feature flags in the Rabbit MQ management console. See Feature Flags in the VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes Product Documentation.

    2. Retry the VMware RabbitMQ solution upgrade to version 3.12.

  • VMware data solutions deployment fails with an error

    When the cloud provider tries to deploy an instance of VMware RabbitMQ, VMware SQL with Postgres, or VMware SQL with MySQL, the deployment fails with the following error:

    pull access denied for registry.tanzu.vmware.com/packages-for-vmware-tanzu-data-services/tds-packages, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login': denied: The EULA for this release can be accepted ...

     The issue is observed because the EULA agreement has been changed.

    Workaround: Re-sign the EULA for Packages for VMware Tanzu Data Services, similar to the process in Accept Tanzu Application Platform EULAs and installing Tanzu CLI in the VMware Tanzu Application Platform Product Documentation.

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