VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure includes core, mandatory, and optional components. The mandatory components are required for the solution to function and the optional components provide useful additional capabilities.

For the list of all these components and the supported versions, see the Telco Cloud Infrastructure - Cloud Director Edition 3.0 Release Notes.

Telco Cloud Infrastructure is based on the 3-Pod design comprising of Management Pod, Edge Pod, and Resource Pod. Management Pod contains all management components such as VMware vSphere®, VMware NSX® Manager™, VMware Cloud Director™ (VIM), and Operations and Analytics. Load Balancer edges for VMware Cloud Director and VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator must be deployed in the Management Pod.

Figure 1. Virtual Building Blocks
Virtual Building Blocks
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Based on the upgrade path, review the appropriate VMware products required for the solution.

The following table lists the source and target versions of components to be upgraded:

Component

Telco Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Director Edition 2.2

Telco Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Director Edition 3.0

VMware ESXi™

7.0 U3c

8.0 U1a

VMware vCenter™ Server Appliance™

7.0 U3c

8.0 U1b

VMware vSAN™

7.0 U3

8.0 U1

VMware Cloud Director™ (formerly called VMware vCloud Director® for Service Providers)

10.3.3.3

10.4.2

VMware NSX® (formerly VMware NSX-T® Data Center)

3.2.2

4.1.1.0

VMware vSphere® Replication™

8.5.0.2

8.7

VMware Site Recovery Manager™

8.5.0.2

8.7

VMware Aria Operations™( formerly VMware vRealize® Operations™)

8.6.2

8.12

VMware Aria Operations™ for Logs (formerly VMware vRealize® Log Insight™)

8.6.2

8.12

VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator™ (formerly VMware vRealize® Orchestrator Appliance™)

8.6.2

8.12.2

VMware Aria Operations™ for Networks (formerly VMware vRealize® Network Insight™)

6.5.1

6.10

VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™

22.1.3

Note: The NSX Advanced Load Balancer support is introduced in Telco Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Director Edition 3.0. After upgrading the existing components of Telco Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Director Edition from 2.2 to 3.0, install the NSX Advanced Load Balancer.