VCF 5.2, vSphere 8.0 U3, vSAN 8.0 U3, NSX 4.2 Release Round Up
VMware by Broadcom has announced the release of various versions of its VCF range. As there is a lot of new stuff, I thought I would give you a quick overview of my release highlights. VCF 5.2 VCF 5.2 introduces the ability to import existing brownfield vSphere and vSAN environments to benefit from the centralised lifecycle management of VCF. NSX-enabled environments cannot yet be imported, but this is expected in a future release. vSphere 8.0 U3 First great to mention feature is the “Partial Maintenance Mode” to introduce live patching, without host evacuation. This applies likely for Security patches, while Major releases still require the traditional maintenance mode. Secondly vCLS runs more efficient than before as it needs 2 instead of 3 VMs and it doesn’t require a datastore to run.