VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.6

Last week, VMware released VMware Cloud Director Availability (VCDA) 4.6, introducing new features and improvements:

vSphere to vSphere Recovery Plans
Can now also be created and run for vSphere DR and migration between vCenter Server sites.

Audit Logs
Now allow auditing the VMware Cloud Director Availability events by using the Cloud Director delivery channel. VMware Cloud Director automatically marks all external events, like the ones received from VMware Cloud Director Availability, as audit events, subject to audit persistence, retention, and export capabilities by using the audit trail system in VMware Cloud Director.
Recovery Settings Enhancements
Now you can map the source and the destination networks per selected replications for on-premises to cloud replications, similarly to the ones from cloud to cloud.
vSphere DR and migration now validates the recovery settings (data center, VM folder, compute, and others) based on the replication settings (datastore). The network settings now are similar to Cloud Director sites, and the source and destination network mappings allow per-virtual machine network mapping.

vSphere to vSphere DR and Migration Public API
Now VMware Cloud Director Availability provides a step-by-step guide to configure a deployed appliance by using the VMware Cloud Director Availability API

NSX-T vApp Edges Support
VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.6, backed by VMware Cloud Director 10.3 or later, now supports:

Replicates routed vApp networks and vApp network services to virtual data centers backed by NSX with error-free automatic destination network mapping.

Replicates the DHCP service on vApp isolated networks, bringing parity with NSX for vSphere.

To configure a routed vApp network and use any vApp network services, like DHCP in isolated vApp networks, the containing organization’s virtual data center must be configured with an edge cluster.

Guest Customization Global Setting
A global setting that affects all replications – whether the users need to manually activate or deactivate guest customization on failover

Tunnel Appliance High Availability
In Cloud Director sites, now a second Tunnel Appliance can operate in an active-active mode for high availability of the Tunnel Service, both for new deployments and for upgraded ones.

vApp Template Replication
Replicating vApp templates between Cloud Director sites now includes protecting the vApp templates that permit tracking the source for changes, allowing either creating new destination template versions when the source changes or overwriting the destination.

Improved Event Notifications
Events and notifications can now also send replication management events by using the email delivery channel. For more information, see Configure provider event notifications in the Cloud Director site and Configure provider event notifications for vSphere DR and migration.

Now with the email delivery channel configured, tenants and providers can subscribe to a weekly summary email. The subscribers can remain informed about what is happening with their replications without logging in to VMware Cloud Director Availability.

In Cloud Director sites, as a provider, you can now see an activity summary report in the management interface.

vSphere to vSphere Bandwidth Throttling
Bandwidth throttling can now also apply throttle for vSphere DR and migration. Note: Applying the limit requires one or more external Replicator Appliance instances.