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 VMware Aria Operations.

Life cycle management of VMware Aria Operations involves the process of performing patches, updates, or upgrades to the VMware Aria Operations analytics cluster and VMware Cloud Proxy appliances.

Table 1. Design Decisions on Life Cycle Management of VMware Aria Operations

Decision ID	Design Decision	Design Justification	Design Implication
IOM-VAOPS-LCM-001	Use VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle to perform the life cycle management of VMware Aria Operations .	VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle manages the product binaries and VMware Aria Operations upgrades.	You must deploy VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle by using SDDC Manager. VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle manages patches, updates, and hot fixes for VMware Aria Operations .