VMware Telco Cloud Platform 4.0.1 supports the following upgrade paths:
Telco Cloud Platform 4.0 > 4.0.1
Telco Cloud Platform 3.1 > 4.0.1
Telco Cloud Platform 3.0 > 4.0.1
Telco Cloud Infrastructure - Cloud Director Edition 3.0 > Telco Cloud Platform 4.0.1
Telco Cloud Infrastructure - Cloud Director Edition 2.2 > Telco Cloud Platform 4.0.1
VMware Telco Cloud Platform 4.0 supports the following upgrade paths:
Telco Cloud Platform 3.1 > 4.0
Telco Cloud Platform 3.0 > 4.0
For information about features supported in these Telco Cloud Platform releases, see the Telco Cloud Platform 4.0 Release Notes and Telco Cloud Platform 4.0.1 Release Notes.
The following table lists the source and target versions of the components to be upgraded:
To download these components, see the VMware Telco Cloud Platform Essentials or Advanced downloads page.
Depending on whether you upgrade the CNF or VNF workload deployment, you can skip upgrading the components that are not relevant.
Component |
Telco Cloud Infrastructure - Cloud Director Edition 2.2 |
Telco Cloud Infrastructure - Cloud Director Edition 3.0 |
Telco Cloud Platform 3.0 |
Telco Cloud Platform 3.1 |
Telco Cloud Platform 4.0 |
Telco Cloud Platform 4.0.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
VMware ESXi™ |
7.0 U3c |
8.0 U1a |
8.0b or 8.0 U1 |
8.0 U1c |
8.0 U2b |
8.0 U2b |
VMware vCenter |
7.0 U3c or later patch versions |
8.0 U1b or later patch versions |
8.0b, 8.0 U1, or 8.0 U1d |
8.0 U1d |
8.0 U2c |
8.0 U2c |
VMware vSAN™ |
7.0 U3c |
8.0 U1 |
8.0b or 8.0 U1 |
8.0 U1c |
8.0 U2b |
8.0 U2b |
VMware Cloud Director™ |
10.3.2a, 10.3.3.x Note: x indicates any minor patch versions. |
10.4.2 |
NA |
NA |
10.4.2 |
10.4.2 |
VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator™ (formerly vRealize® Orchestrator™) |
8.6.2 |
8.12.2 |
8.11.1 or 8.12 |
8.13.1 |
8.16.1 |
8.16.1 |
VMware NSX® (formerly NSX-T™ Data Center) |
3.2.2 |
4.1.1 |
4.1.0.2 or 4.1.1 |
4.1.1 |
4.1.2.1 |
4.1.2.1 |
VMware Telco Cloud Automation™ |
NA |
NA |
2.3 |
3.0 |
3.1 |
3.1.1 |
VMware Tanzu™ Kubernetes Grid™ |
NA |
NA |
2.1.1 |
2.3.1 |
2.5 Note: Tanzu Kubernets Grid 2.1.1 is also supported with Telco Cloud Platform 4.0. |
2.5.1 Note: Tanzu Kubernets Grid 2.1.1 is also supported with Telco Cloud Platform 4.0.1. |
VMware® Avi™ Load Balancer (formerly VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™) |
NA |
22.1.3 |
22.1.3 |
22.1.4 or 22.1.5 |
22.1.6 |
22.1.6 |
Avi Kubernetes Operator (AKO) |
NA |
NA |
1.9 |
1.10 |
1.11.3 |
1.11.3 |
VMware Bare Metal Automation™ for VMware Telco Cloud Platform™ |
NA |
NA |
NA |
3.1 |
4.0 |
4.0 |
VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance™ |
NA |
NA |
NA |
2.2 |
2.4 |
2.4 |
VMware Aria Operations™ |
8.6.2 |
8.12 |
NA |
NA |
8.18 |
8.18 |
VMware Aria Operations™ for Logs |
8.6.2 |
8.12 |
NA |
NA |
8.16 |
8.16 |
VMware Aria Operations™ for Networks |
6.5.1 |
6.10 |
NA |
NA |
6.12.1 |
6.12.1 |
VMware vSphere® Replication™ |
8.5.0.2 |
8.7 |
NA |
NA |
9.0 |
9.0 |
VMware Site Recovery Manager™ |
8.5.0.2 |
8.7 |
NA |
NA |
9.0 |
9.0 |
AKO: To know the AKO version that is compatible with VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and Kubernetes versions, see the AKO Compatibility Guide.
Bare Metal Automation: Direct upgrade from Bare Metal Automation (BMA) 3.1 to 4.0 is not supported. To use BMA in Telco Cloud Platform 4.0, do a fresh installation of BMA 4.0. For instructions, see Using Bare Metal Automation for VMware Telco Cloud Platform.
