Life cycle management details the design decisions for the life cycle management of the HCX Connector appliance.

Life cycle management of Cross Cloud Mobility for VMware Cloud Foundation involves a manual upgrade for the HCX Connector appliance.

Table 1. Design Decisions on Life Cycle Management of the HCX Connector appliance

Decision ID

Design Decision

Design Justification

Design Implication

CCM-CDP-LCM-001

Manually upgrade the HCX Connector appliance using the built-in tools.

An upgrade package must be downloaded and applied to the HCX appliance to perform an upgrade.

None.

CCM-CDP-LCM-002

Use the VMware Cloud Services automatic over-the-air service to perform the upgrades to the HCX Connector appliance.

The VMware HCX service pushes upgrades automatically.

None.