Cloud administrators can select the preferred date and time for the routine maintenance of the SDDC recommended by VMware.

Scheduling routine maintenance allows you to choose your preferred time and align them with weekly or monthly maintenance windows for your organization.

Activities that you can schedule include:
  • Certificate replacement or renewal.
  • Remediation of SDDC components requiring a restart of the NSX Edge or services on the vCenter Server Appliance.
  • Host BIOS updates requiring a host reboot.
  • Cluster maintenance.

VMware deploys routine maintenance activities for cloud SDDCs in a rollout. When a rollout is available for your organization, you receive an email notification and a notification in the VMware Cloud Console. Each rollout has a start date and a deadline. All SDDCs in a rollout must be updated by the deadline.

When scheduling maintenance, keep in mind that only one maintenance workflow can be executed at any given time.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the VMware Cloud Console at https://vmc.vmware.com.
  2. Click the Maintenance (maintenance tab icon) tab.
  3. Click the Rollouts tab.
  4. Select the rollout that you want to schedule.
  5. Select the SDDCs you want to schedule and click Schedule.
    You cannot select an SDDC until it has been assigned a deadline.
  6. In the Date range dropdown menu, select the week within which you want to schedule the maintenance activity.
  7. In the Available Time Slots dropdown menu, select the time slot for the maintenance.
    Maintenance times are specified in UTC time. For information on converting UTC to your local time zone, see Convert UTC Time to Local Time.
  8. Click Next and review the details of the scheduling request.
  9. Click Submit.

Results

The status of the SDDC on the Rollouts tab changes to Scheduled. When maintenance begins, the status changes to In Progress. When the maintenance activity is complete, the status changes to Completed.

What to do next

If you need to re-schedule the maintenance activity, you can return to the Rollouts tab, select the SDDC, and click Schedule. You can then select a new time slot as described above, or select the option to reset the maintenance activity to the deadline.