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 VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure OpenStack Edition 3.0 Release Notes.
Telco Cloud Infrastructure is based on the 3-Pod design comprising Management Pod, Edge Pod, and Resource Pod. Management Pod contains all management components such as VMware vCenter Server®, NSX Manager, VMware Integrated OpenStack™ (VIM), and Operations and Analytics.
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 OpenStack Edition 2.2 |
Telco Cloud Infrastructure OpenStack Edition 3.0 |
|---|---|---|
VMware ESXi™ |
7.0 U3c |
8.0U1 |
VMware vCenter® Server Appliance™ |
7.0 U3c |
8.0U1 |
VMware vSAN™ |
7.0 U3c |
8.0U1 |
VMware NSX® (formerly VMware NSX-T™ Data Center) |
3.2.0.1 |
4.1.0.2 |
VMware® Integrated OpenStack |
7.2.0.1 |
7.3 |
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 |
8.10.2 |
VMware Aria Operations™ for Logs (formerly VMware vRealize® Log Insight™) |
8.6.2 |
8.10.2 |
VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator™ (formerly vRealize® Orchestrator™) |
8.6.2 |
8.11.2 |
VMware Aria Operations™ for Networks (formerly vRealize® Network Insight™) |
6.5.1 |
6.9 |
