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Announcing VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0.1 on Dell EMC VxRail 7.0
Announcing VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0.1 on Dell EMC VxRail 7.0
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:48:47 -0000
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The latest Dell Technologies Cloud Platform release introduces new support for vSphere with Kubernetes for entry cloud deployments and more
Dell Technologies and VMware are happy to announce the general availability VCF 4.0.1 on VxRail 7.0.
This release offers several enhancements including vSphere with Kubernetes support for entry cloud deployments, enhanced bring up features for more extensibility and accelerated deployments, increased network configuration options, and more efficient LCM capabilities for NSX-T components. Below is the full listing of features that can be found in this release:
- Kubernetes in the management domain: vSphere with Kubernetes is now supported in the management domain. With VMware Cloud Foundation Workload Management, you can deploy vSphere with Kubernetes on the management domain default cluster starting with only four VxRail nodes. This means that DTCP entry cloud deployments can take advantage of running Kubernetes containerized workloads alongside general purpose VM workloads on a common infrastructure!
- Multi-pNIC/multi-vDS during VCF bring-up: The Cloud Builder deployment parameter workbook now provides five vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) profiles that allow you to perform bring-up of hosts with two, four, or six physical NICs (pNICs) and to create up to two vSphere Distributed Switches for isolating system (Management, vMotion, vSAN) traffic from overlay (Host, Edge, and Uplinks) traffic.
- Multi-pNIC/multi-vDS API support: The VCF API now supports configuring a second vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) using up to four physical NICs (pNICs), providing more flexibility to support high performance use cases and physical traffic separation.
- NSX-T cluster-level upgrade support: Users can upgrade specific host clusters within a workload domain so that the upgrade can fit into their maintenance windows bringing about more efficient upgrades.
- Cloud Builder API support for bring-up operations – VCF on VxRail deployment workflows have been enhanced to support using a new Cloud Builder API for bring-up operations. VCF software installation on VxRail during VCF bring-up can now be done using either an API or GUI providing even more platform extensibility capabilities.
- Automated externalization of the vCenter Server for the management domain: Externalizing the vCenter Server that gets created during the VxRail first run (the one used for the management domain) is now automated as part of the bring-up process. This enhanced integration between the VCF Cloud Builder bring-up automation workflow and VxRail API helps to further accelerate installation times for VCF on VxRail deployments.
- BOM Updates: Updated VCF software Bill of Materials with new product versions.
Jason Marques
Twitter - @vwhippersnapper
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