Life Cycle Management Design for vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager

The life cycle management of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager involves the process of performing patch updates, upgrades or product support packs to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.

In VMware Cloud Foundation, life cycle management of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager is performed by using SDDC Manager.

Table 1. Design Decisions on Life Cycle Management of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager

Decision ID	Design Decision	Design Justification	Design Implication
VCF-VRS-vRSLCM-LCM-001	Use vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to manage its own life cycle.	You can upgrade vRealize Suite products based on their general availability and endpoint interoperability. You can perform skip-level upgrades of vRealize Suite products.	None.