VMware offers cloudy upgrade lifeline to legacy vCenter users
It's not often that a double dot release of a product adds significant functionality, but VMware did just that on Thursday with version 4.4.1 of its Cloud Director Availability product, which adds the ability to migrate aged and unsupported versions of vCenter to the cloud.
"Due to various reasons, a considerable number of organizations still rely on legacy VMware vCenter Server versions in their datacenters even though they have been out of support for a long time,"senior technical product manager Nikolay Patrikov, who reckons the complexity of cloudy migration/upgrades is the reason some stick with unsupported product.
Cloud Director Availability 4.4.1 makes it possible to shift vCenter and ESXi versions 5.5 U3, 6.0 U2, and 6.0 U3 to clouds. The migration process is billed as"simple", but Patrikov's post outlines a few steps that will require considerable care and attention. He also points out that moving an unsupported setup to the cloud does not mean restoration of support!
While VMware has given a lifeline to users of the vCenter versions mentioned above, it's also warned more of its customers they have some pain coming.product line manager Todor Raykov made the exciting disclosure that VMware plans an"upcoming major release of vSphere".Raykov explained the upcoming release will deprecate the local plugin architecture introduced with vSphere 6.5.
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