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:
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.
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.
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
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:
- SSH of SDDC Manager using
vcf user .
- 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
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