Logical Design for vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager

You deploy vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to provide life cycle management capabilities for vRealize Suite components and a Workspace ONE Access cluster.

Logical Design

In a VMware Cloud Foundation environment, you use vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager in VMware Cloud Foundation mode. In this mode, vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager is integrated with VMware Cloud Foundation in the following way:

• SDDC Manager deploys the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager appliance. Then, you deploy the vRealize Suite products that are supported by VMware Cloud Foundation by using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.

  Supported versions are controlled by the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager appliance and Product Support Packs. See the VMware Interoperability Matrix.

• To orchestrate the deployment, patching, and upgrade of Workspace ONE Access and the vRealize Suite products, vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager communicates with SDDC Manager and the management domain vCenter Server in the environment.

• SDDC Manager configures the load balancer for Workspace ONE Access, vRealize Operations Manager, and vRealize Automation.

Figure 1. Logical Design of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager

For information on the design and deployment of a certain vRealize Suite product on VMware Cloud Foundation, see VMware Cloud Foundation Validated Solutions.

Table 1. vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Logical Components

Single VMware Cloud Foundation Instance	Single VMware Cloud Foundation instance with Multiple Availability Zones	Multiple VMware Cloud Foundation Instances
A single vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager appliance deployed on the cross-instance NSX segment. vSphere HA protects the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager appliance. Life cycle management for: Workspace ONE Access vRealize Suite	A single vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager appliance deployed on the cross-instance NSX segment. vSphere HA protects the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager appliance. A should-run vSphere DRS rule specifies that the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager appliance should run on an VMware ESXi™ host in the first availability zone. Life cycle management for: Workspace ONE Access vRealize Suite	In each VMware Cloud Foundation instance, a vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager appliance deployed on the cross-instance NSX segment. vSphere HA protects the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager appliance in each VMware Cloud Foundation instance. The vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager instance in the first VMware Cloud Foundation instance provides life cycle management for: Workspace ONE Access vRealize Suite vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager in each additional VMware Cloud Foundation instance provides life cycle management for: vRealize Log Insight