vSphere 8 Update 1 and vSAN 8 Update 1

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 If you have not been following, VMware has quietly release update 1 for both vSphere and vSAN close to 3 months after the major release of version 8 for both. Catch announcement of vSphere 8 Update 1 and vSAN 8 update 1.

Here I will consolidate some of the read up to do a fast catch up.

vSphere 8 Update 1

Major feature summary

Ability to attached a cluster Configuration Profile. Similar like how Host Profile works, but this is at cluster level. You will need to remove Host Profile from existing host in order to use Configuration Profile.

vSphere Lifecycle Manager no longer just support cluster level. Now it can also be used for single standalone host as long it is managed by vCenter Server.

Mixed GPU profile support in a single cluster. Prior to vSphere 8 Update 1, each cluster must use the same GPU profile for host leveraging on GPU. This version allows a mixed setup of GPU profile type.

Support for Supervisor services when using virtual distributed switch. You will not be able to manage the lcm of the Supervisor Services and also run multiple version in a Supervisor.

Admin or DevOps can now initiate image build pipeline to create VM images with support for CloudInit or vAppConfig. This in turn can add these VM images to Content Library and be used by DevOps.

VM Consoles for DevOPs user which will be generated with a unique URL generated using kubectl, which is valid for 2 minutes to access the console of the VMs. This remove the needs to allow DevOps users to have access to vSphere Client.

vSphere FT now support for VM with vTPM.

OKTA identity federation with vCenter Server. Prior, the only identify federation was with Azure MFA.

vSAN 8 Update 1


This article will be updated when more material are release.

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