Life Cycle Management Design of NSX-T Data Center for the Management Domain
You decide on the life cycle management of the NSX-T Data Center components in VMware
Cloud Foundation according to the amount of time and effort to perform a deployment,
upgrade, or patch operation. You also consider the impact such an operation has on the
management solutions that are connected to NSX-T Data Center for the management
domain.
Life Cycle Management for a Single VMware
Cloud Foundation Instance
Life cycle management of NSX-T Data Center involves the process of applying patches, updates or upgrades to the NSX-T Data Center appliances and hypervisor components.
In a typical environment, you perform life cycle
management by using the upgrade coordinator service in NSX Manager. When you
implement a solution by using VMware Cloud Foundation, you use SDDC Manager for life
cycle management where additional components, such as automatic patching, upgrade,
and product compatibility verification, are included as part of the life cycle
management process.
Life Cycle Management for Multiple VMware
Cloud Foundation Instances
The NSX Global Manager and NSX instances in the
individual management domains must be compatible and supported version with each
other both during the upgrade and post-upgrade. To manage the life cycle of NSX
Global Manager, use the upgrade coordinator. The version of SDDC Manager in this
design does not handle the life cycle of NSX Global Manager nodes.