Yesterday VMware released vCloud Director 9.0 and this version of vCD brings many new things on table which customer’s were looking for some time. We will discuss about Whats new with this release. Vcloud Director 9.0 was first anoounced by VMware in VMworld 2017 on 28/08/2017.
The GA version of vCloud Director 9.0 is build 6681978 and is available for download for service providers from here
Whats new with this release?
Below new features are in this release:
- New HTML5 based UI which is fast (same like HTML client for vSphere). However, the old Flex based UI is still available.
- New VM lifecycle workflows: VM creation task is now completed in one screen as opposed to maximum of seven in previous releases of vCD.
- Multisite management: If a tenant has workloads running across different Org vDC’s and in more than once vCloud Director instance, then tenant can access all of them via single portal.