Function Fridays 98 – VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.4 GA

It’s right here! Cloud Director 4.4 has landed, and what a touchdown, this launch has extra new capabilities than any prior!

New for Cloud Suppliers is on-premises vSphere to Cloud Supplier devoted vSphere DR and Migration, now permitting DR and Migration to non-public cloud vSphere situations, no Cloud Director required! This characteristic leverages the vCenter Replication administration equipment or seamless on-premises equipment configuration, replication, failover and reverse setup with full management over the administration of RPO, retention coverage, compression, quiescing and storage coverage.  

vSphere DR & Migration functionality presents extremely aggressive compute useful resource, community mapping and restoration setting options for Cloud Suppliers. It maintains characteristic parity in opposition to VMware Cloud Director as an endpoint DR and migration functionality so Cloud Suppliers can get a constant, built-in and standardized expertise throughout their migration journey. 

1-click migration – getting your tenants onto your cloud sooner and extra successfully than ever earlier than. One-click migration characteristic is an extra enchancment to simplify and pace up tenants’ migration expertise by including the potential to execute a migration straight from vSphere UI. To assist save time tenants have the choice to mechanically run this characteristic with pre-defined standards if there is no such thing as a want for superior replication configuration.  

Elevated operational excellence with RPO compliance reporting and Restoration Plan execution reporting to assist troubleshoot challenges with failover and replications.

Improve help with the flexibility to validate compatibility with all of your distant on-premises replicators and perceive the impression of an improve earlier than it occurs – getting your tenants prepped prior will assist keep away from service outages.

New product suggestions mechanism to assist our engineering and product administration groups ship a greater expertise on-going sooner or later. Assist for Layer 2 community extension to VMware Cloud on AWS for one-way migration and full DR and Migration assist for Cloud Director service Google Cloud VMware Engine.

And far way more!

Try our this Function Friday to get the deep dive!