VMware Cloud Foundation 2.2.1.1 Release Notes

What's in the Release Notes

The release notes cover the following topics:

• What's New
• Installation and Upgrades Information
• Known Issues

What's New

The VMware Cloud Foundation 2.2.1.1 release includes the following:

• Patches that provide vCenter Server and ESXi 6.5 P02:

  • Upgrade VMware Platform Services Controller and vCenter Server to 6.5 Update 1d

  • Upgrade vSphere (ESXi) to ESXi-6.5.0-20171204001-standard patch. For more information, see KB article 2151112.

• 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 6.5 U1e.

  • Upgrade vSphere (ESXi) to ESXi-6.5.0-20180104001-standard patch. For more information, see KB article 52200.
    Note: Do not download or install this bundle. If you have already installed it, contact VMware Support.

Cloud Foundation 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.

Installation and Upgrades Information

You can upgrade to Cloud Foundation 2.2.1.1 from a 2.2.1 deployment.

NOTE If you downloaded or installed the Cloud Foundation upgrade bundle that included ESXi 6.5 EP05, released on 11 JAN 2018, please see the following instructions:

• If you downloaded but did not install the bundle, follow the procedures in Knowledge Base article 52402.
• If you downloaded and installed the bundle, follow the procedures in Knowledge Base article 52381.

LCM Upgrade Bundles

The Cloud Foundation 2.2.1.1 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.

Before upgrading, perform the following tasks:

1. Clean out out-of-date bundles. See Knowledge Base article 52402.
2. Before scheduling an upgrade, run the pre-check utility with the following command from the SDDC Manager Controller VM:

./sos --pre-upgrade-check

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

• Patching and Upgrading Cloud Foundation in the Administering VMware Cloud Foundation document
• VMware Cloud Foundation 2.2 Release Notes: LCM Known Issues

Known Issues

• ESXi update may fail on a VDI domain

  While upgrading a VDI domain, ESXi update may fail on the stage “ESX UPGRADE VUM STAGE INSTALL UPDATE”.

  Workaround: Wait for the update to be available again and retry upgrade.