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WHAT'S NEW IN THE VMWARE VALIDATED DESIGNS?

VVD 5.0 release contains a vSphere 6.7 based Bill of Materials which matches that of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 3.5. This brings VVD and VCF one step closer to a fully aligned architecture.

VVD 5.0 also introduces VMware Cloud Builder 1.0. Cloud Builder provides a streamlined automated deployment for the SDDC. It can be used to deploy a single region, a dual region or a consolidated SDDC. In prior releases, Cloud Builder and its predecessor the Deployment Tool Kit (DTK), had only been available to VMware Professional Services(PSO) and select partners. VVD 5.0 sees the first public release of Cloud Builder to all VMware SDDC customers, further simplifying and standardizing the implementation of VMware deployments. The VVD deployment guides have been updated to incorporate the use VMware Cloud Builder 1.0.

Key highlights

• Automated deployment of SDDC stack using VMware Cloud Builder 1.0. You can deploy vSphere, NSX, vSAN and the vRealize suite using VMware Cloud Builder.
• Updated deployment documents. The new deployment documents provide extensive guidance on how to deploy a VVD complaint SDDC using VMware Cloud Builder. This also includes any manual steps for certain tasks that are not able to be automated by Cloud Builder.
• VVD Document map: VVD 5.0 introduces a VVD for SDDC documentation map. This provides a high-level graphical overview to help navigate the documentation. It also provides a summary of the available documents, the interdependencies between these documents, and it makes documents which may not have been released for the latest version of the VVD easier to discover.
• Updated software support. VVD 5.0 supports Microsoft Windows Server 2016 for the vRealize Automation and Site Recovery Manager windows-based virtual machines. It also supports Microsoft SQL Server 2017 for the external databases used by vRealize Automation, and Ubuntu Server 18.04 for the vSphere Update Manager Download Service virtual machines.
• Support for Multi-tenancy and multiple availability zones. VVD 5.0 has support for multi-tenancy in vRealize Orchestrator. It also supports the manual addition of a second availability zone within region A.
• HTML5-based Clients: VVD 5.0 is updated to use the workflows of the latest HTML5-based vSphere Clients for environment preparation, post-deployment configuration, and operational guidance in vSphere, NSX for vSphere, Site Recovery Manager, and vSphere Update Manager.