However, there is no longer necessary to update the pairing with the on-premises sites, which means there will be no service interruptions and no actions need to be taken by the tenants. To save this effort, in VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.3, changing the Cloud Service certificate requires only re-establishing trust with the rest of the Cloud appliances. It caused significant troubles to Providers as it led to all their tenants' on-premises sites needing to be re-paired to their cloud. The Cloud Service certificate requires to be regularly changed primarily due to its expiration and other reasons. By editing it, the Provider can specify which Endpoint Address will be used for what kind of traffic. Now in the Settings menu of the Cloud Tunnel and Cloud Replicator Appliances, there is a new option called Traffic Control.

This new feature simplifies the configuration process and replaces the command line with a UI. Having multiple network adapters on each VMware Cloud Director Availability appliance to separate the network traffic is common among Providers. Instead of restoring all appliances when one stops operating correctly, you can now do it for the single one that has issues.Īlso, the backups are now encrypted by a new algorithm that improves their security. There is no need to deploy fresh appliances for restoring a backup anymore as there is now the in-place restore. Together with the already announced DR and Migration Plans, 1 minute RPO, and Advanced Retention Policies, VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.3 has several newly added enhancements in terms of service operation and administration.īacking up and restoring the VMware Cloud Director Availability appliances was added as a feature in the previous versions, but with 4.3, it is extended to support:

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