NCD – User Bulletin: vCloud Director 9.1 Update
The production version of vCloud Director (vCD) will be updated from version 8.20 to version 9.1 in all Navisite datacenters (Andover, Santa Clara, Woking, and Redhill). This update is expected to be performed in early-mid March, 2019.
While vCD 9.1 introduces many new features that are accessible using VMware's native interface, Navisite is not yet supporting all of these features. Customers are welcome to experiment with the new functionality, but should be aware that Navisite provides no support SLA for the new components at this time. In particular, this applies to the Edge Gateway distributed firewall, for which Navisite will be providing support later in 2019.
What's New in vCloud Director 9.1
Edge Gateway Upgrades
vCloud Director 9.1 upgrades all Edge Gateways to "Advanced" Edge Gateways, providing advanced networking and distributed firewall services.Note that this upgrade may affect settings and performance for any configured VPNs.
Note also that any use of APIs to manage your Edge Gateways may be affected. You may be required to use new APIs.
Enhanced Tenant Portal
The vCloud Director 9.1 release includes a new enhanced tenant portal view, providing users access to a new dashboard, with vApp and catalog management capabilities.The enhanced portal provides built-in native OVF/OVA upload and download capabilities without the need for browser extensions.
The portal also provides a standalone VMware Remote Console (VMRC) for console access, which replaces the current Client Integration plugin.
Deprecated and Discontinued Funtionality
End of Support for Older vCloud API Versions
vCloud Director 9.1 no longer supports vCloud API versions 1.5 and 5.1. These API versions were deprecated in a previous release.vCloud Director 9.1 is the last release of vCloud Director to support any vCloud API versions earlier than 20.0. Those API versions are deprecated in this release and will not be supported in future releases.