Life Cycle Management Design for Intelligent Logging and Analytics for VMware Cloud Foundation

Life cycle management design details the design decisions covering the life cycle management of vRealize Log Insight.

Life cycle management of vRealize Log Insight involves the process of performing patch updates or upgrades to the vRealize Log Insight cluster.

In this validated solution, life cycle management of vRealize Log Insight is performed by using SDDC Manager.

Table 1. Design Decision on Life Cycle Management of vRealize Log Insight

Decision ID	Design Decision	Design Justification	Design Implication
ILA-VRLI-LCM-001	For VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4, use vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to perform the life cycle management of vRealize Log Insight in each VMware Cloud Foundation instance. For VMware Cloud Foundation 4.3.1 and earlier, use SDDC Manager to perform the life cycle management of vRealize Log Insight in each VMware Cloud Foundation instance.	For VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4, vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager manages the product binaries and vRealize Log Insight upgrades. For VMware Cloud Foundation 4.3.1 and earlier, SDDC Manager provides the upgrade bundles to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager and manages vRealize Log Insight upgrades through the integration with vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager.	You must deploy vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager by using SDDC Manager. vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager manages patches, updates, and hot fixes for vRealize Log Insight.