Updated Information

This vSphere IaaS Control Plane Concepts and Planning is updated with each release of the product or when necessary.

This table provides the update history of vSphere IaaS Control Plane Concepts and Planning.

Revision	Description
21 AUG 2024	Minor revisions.
18 APR 2024	Updated the licensing information for the new Solution Licenses. See Licensing for vSphere IaaS Control Plane.
29 FEB 2024	Added content for clouds. See NSX Advanced Load Balancer Components.
07 FEB 2024	Updated a link in Supervisor Networking.
13 DEC 2023	Updated NSX requirements with a note about preparing all ESXi hosts participating in the vSphere Cluster as NSX transport nodes. See Requirements for Zonal Supervisor with NSX and Requirements for Cluster Supervisor Deployment with NSX.
29 SEP 2023	Updated load balancer requirements for deploying HAProxy. See Requirements for Zonal Supervisor Deployment with HA Proxy Load Balancer and Requirements for Cluster Supervisor Deployment with VDS Networking and HAProxy Load Balancer
21 SEP 2023	Added content for Supervisor networking with NSX and NSX Advanced Load Balancer. See vSphere IaaS Control Plane User Roles and Workflows and Supervisor Networking.
03 AUG 2023	Minor revisions.
30 JUN 2023	Added a statement about the distribution of vSphere Zones across physical cites: Supervisor Zonal and Cluster Deployments
09 JUN 2023	Added the following statement to vSphere IaaS Control Plane Security: The same encryption model applies to the data in the database (etcd) that is installed on the control plane for each TKG cluster. Added a statement that Storage vMotion is not supported with persistent volumes. See How Supervisor Integrates with vSphere Storage and Storage for TKG Clusters. Added a recommendation for separating the management and workload domains as a best practice in Requirements for Zonal Supervisor Deployment and Requirements for Cluster Supervisor Deployment.
02 JUN 2023	Added a link to the NSX Reference Design Guide. See Requirements for Zonal Supervisor with NSX and Requirements for Cluster Supervisor Deployment with NSX. Minor updates.
30 MAY 2023	Added GENEVE encapsulation support requirement for NSX deployments. See Requirements for Zonal Supervisor with NSX and Requirements for Cluster Supervisor Deployment with NSX. Minor updates.
12 MAY 2023	Added a note that if you have upgraded your vSphere IaaS control plane environment from a vSphere version earlier than 8.0 and want to use vSphere Zones, you must create a new three-zone Supervisor. See Requirements for Zonal Supervisor Deployment.
09 MAY 2023	Added a separate topic about What is a vSphere Namespace?. Updated the content about vSphere IaaS Control Plane Identity and Access Management. Added a note that vSphere Pods are only supported with the NSX networking stack. See What Is a vSphere Pod?.
01 MAY 2023	Minor revisions.
18 APR 2023	General updates for the vSphere 8 Update 1 release.