Life Cycle Management Design for Intelligent Operations Management for VMware Cloud Foundation

Life cycle management design details the design decisions covering the life cycle management of vRealize Operations Manager.

Life cycle management of vRealize Operations Manager involves the process of performing patch updates or upgrades to the vRealize Operations Manager analytics cluster and remote collector nodes.

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

Decision ID	Design Decision	Design Justification	Design Implication
IOM-VROPS-LCM-001	For VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4, use vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to perform the life cycle management of vRealize Operations Manager . For VMware Cloud Foundation 4.3.1 and earlier, use SDDC Manager and vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to perform the life cycle management of vRealize Operations Manager .	For VMware Cloud Foundation 4.4, vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager manages the product binaries and vRealize Operations Manager upgrades. For VMware Cloud Foundation 4.3.1 and earlier, SDDC Manager provides the upgrade bundles to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager and manages vRealize Operations Manager 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 Operations Manager .