VMware Cloud Foundation 3.7.2 on Dell EMC VxRail Release Notes

VMware Cloud Foundation 3.7.2 on Dell EMC VxRail | 28 MAY 2019 | Build 13774914

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VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) on Dell EMC VxRail is a solution offering that provides best-in-class serviceability and lifecycle management capabilities for customers looking to automate the deployment and management of the full VMware Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC) stack on Dell EMC VxRail.

 

The release notes cover the following topics:

What's New

This release has the following features:

  • Support for Bundle Transfer Utility - Provides the support for the command line utility to manually download the VMware Cloud Foundation and Dell EMC VxRail bundles on to your local computer or storage and then manually upload them manually to SDDC Manager.
  • Unstretching a Cluster - Provides the support for unstretching a vSAN stretched cluster.
  • Support for Dell EMC VxRail 4.7.111 - Provides the suppport for the integration of VMware Cloud Foundation 3.7.2 with Dell EMC VxRail 4.7.111.

VMware Cloud Foundation over Dell EMC VxRail Bill of Materials (BOM)

The Cloud Foundation software product is comprised of the following software Bill-of-Materials (BOM). The components in the BOM are interoperable and compatible.

Software Component Version Date Build Number
Cloud Builder VM 2.0.2 28 MAY 2019

13774914

SDDC Manager 3.7.2 28 MAY 2019

13774914

VMware vCenter Server Appliance vCenter Server 6.7 Update 2a 14 MAY 2019

13643870

VMware vSphere (ESXi) ESXi670-201905001 14 MAY 2019

13644319

VMware vSAN

6.7 Express Patch 09

14 MAY 2019


VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4.4 13 DEC 2018 11197766
VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.4 28 FEB 2019 12456646
VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 2.0.0 Patch 2 26 DEC 2018 11187327
VMware vRealize Log Insight 4.7 04 OCT 2018 9983377
vRealize Log Insight Content Pack for NSX for vSphere 3.8 n/a n/a
vRealize Log Insight Content Pack for Linux 1.0 n/a n/a
vRealize Log Insight Content Pack for vRealize Automation 7.3+ 2.1 n/a n/a
vRealize Log Insight Content Pack for vRealize Orchestrator 7.0.1+ 2.0 n/a n/a
vRealize Log insight Content Pack for NSX-T 3.2 n/a n/a
VSAN content pack for Log Insight 2.0 n/a n/a
VxRail Manager 4.7.111 04 APR 2019 n/a
vRealize Operations Manager 7.0 24 SEP 2018 10098133
vRealize Automation 7.5 20 SEP 2018 10053539
Horizon7 7.7.0 13 DEC 2018 11038474

Note: 

  • vRealize Log Insight Content Pack for vRealize Automation is installed during the deployment of vRealize Automation.
  • vRealize Log Insight Content Pack for vRealize Orchestrator is installed during the deployment of vRealize Automation.
  • vRealize Log Insight Content Pack for NSX-T is installed alongside the deployment of the first NSX-T workload domain.
  • VMware Solution Exchange and the vRealize Log Insight in-product marketplace store only the latest versions of the content packs for vRealize Log Insight. The software components table contains the latest versions of the packs that were available and automation at the time VMware Cloud Foundation released. When you deploy the VMware Cloud Foundation components, it is possible that the version of a content pack within the in-product marketplace for vRealize Log Insight is newer than the one used for this release.

 

Documentation

The following documentation is available:

VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC VxRail Admin Guide

VMware Cloud Foundation 3.7.2 Release Notes

Support Matrix of VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC VxRail

 

Known Issues

The known issues and limitations for are as follows:

  • Upgrade bundles cannot be applied even after all of them have been downloaded

    Symptoms of this issue:

    • All upgrade bundles have been downloaded from the online depot but show up with the status of Future on the LCM Upgrade GUI.
    • Trying to upload the offline bundles produces the error Invalid Software Compatibility Metadata Set in /var/log/vmware/vcf/lcm/lcm.log

    Workaround: See KB 74727.

  • Workload domain vcenter upgrade is failing

    The vCenter upgrade is failing for the workload domain due to the missing vc rsa-key in SDDC Manager inside the known host file("~/.ssh/known_hosts).

    Workaround:

    1. SSH of SDDC Manager using vcf user.
    2. Execute ssh -o HostKeyAlgorithms=ssh-rsa root@ <VC_IP>.

  • NSX-T is not supported for the VMware Cloud Foundation 3.7 deployments on VxRail

    Currently, only NSX-V 6.4.4 is supported for VMware Cloud Foundation 3.7 deployed on Dell EMC VxRail.

    Workaround: None

  • The add secondary cluster operation on the management domain fails.

    After deploying the VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC VxRail management domain, when you try to add the secondary cluster to it, the task fails.

    Workaround: None