VMware Cloud Foundation 2.1.3c Release Notes

VMware Cloud Foundation 2.1.3c | 11 JAN 2018

IMPORTANT NOTE: Per VMware Security Advisory and KB article 52345, do not download and install the ESXi 6.0 LCM bundle. This bundle is no longer available on the VMware Depot. If you have already installed the ESXi bundle, please contact VMware Support.

Cloud Foundation 2.1.3c is a minor patch release, resulting in abbreviated release notes. The content of the Cloud Foundation 2.1.3 release notes also applies to version 2.1.3c.

What's in the Release Notes

The release notes cover the following topics:

What's New

The VMware Cloud Foundation 2.1.3c release includes the following:

  • Patches that provide part of the hypervisor-assisted guest remediation of CVE-2017-5715 for guest operating systems. For important details on this remediation, see VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2018-0004.

    • Upgrade VMware Platform Services Controller and vCenter Server to 6.0 Update 3d.

    • Upgrade vSphere (ESXi) to ESXi-6.0.0-20180104001-standard patch. For more information, see KB article 52238.
      Note: Do not download or install this bundle. If you have already installed it, contact VMware Support.

Cloud Foundation is a software product that deploys the VMware SDDC Software Stack. For information about what is new in those products, as well as their known issues and resolved issues, see the release notes for those software versions. You can locate their release notes from their documentation landing pages at docs.vmware.com.

Updated Installation and Upgrades Information

You can upgrade to Cloud Foundation 2.1.3c from a 2.1.3b deployment.

NOTE If you downloaded or installed the Cloud Foundation upgrade bundle that included ESXi 6.0 EP12, released on 11 JAN 2018, please contact VMware Support.

Supported Upgrade Paths

The following upgrade paths are supported in sequential manner:

  • 2.0 to 2.1 to 2.1.1 to 2.1.2 to 2.1.3
  • 2.1.3 to 2.1.3a
  • 2.1.3a to 2.1.3b
  • 2.1.3b to 2.1.3c

LCM Upgrade Bundles

The Cloud Foundation 2.1.3c software BOM contains the VMware software components described in the table below. This patch bundle is hosted on the VMware Depot site and available via the Lifecycle Management feature in SDDC Manager. See Lifecycle Management in the Administering VMware Cloud Foundation guide.

Software Component Date Build Number
VMware Software Update, VMware Platform Services Controller 11 JANUARY 2018 7464101
VMware Software Update, vCenter Server on vCenter Server Appliance 11 JANUARY 2018 7464101

 

For more information on applying the patch bundle, see the following resources: