Scope of Support - VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMS
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Scope of Support - VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMS

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VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs

Issue/Introduction

This document is meant to be a practical guide to help understand what is and is not covered by Tanzu Support for customers using TAS and TKGi that are covered by Tanzu Support. This document is intended to provide a basic outline and cover some common concrete examples of services that are in and out of the scope of support provided by Tanzu.

This document is not a legal document, see the disclaimer at the bottom. If you are looking for these official documents, please see Support Offerings , Support Terms and Conditions , and Support Lifecycle .


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Resolution

In Scope

The following items are examples of tasks which are covered by Tanzu Support:
 

  In Scope
IaaS Set Up & Configuration Yes [1]
Installation of TAS and TKGi Yes [2]
Usage & Configuration Yes
Diagnosis of issues with TAS and TKGi Yes 
Production TAS and TKGi performance troubleshooting Yes [3]
Bug reporting Yes
Bug Fix Yes [4]
Scaling TAS and TKGi Yes
Restoring TAS and TKGi after an IaaS outage Yes
Buildpacks Yes [5]
Log Analysis & Review Yes [6]

 

Out of Scope

The following items are examples of tasks which are not covered by Tanzu Support:
 

  In Scope
Debugging custom code/applications running on TAS and TKGi No
Load/Performance/Stress Testing of TAS and TKGi itself No
Third-party tiles, Bosh releases, community projects, and add-ons No
Custom Bosh manifests or runtime configuration No
Forked, modified or custom compiled versions of tiles, stemcells, buildpacks and Bosh releases No
Developer tools/plugins No [7]
Best practices for platform architecture, design, guidance No [2]

 

[1] - Tanzu Support can help to troubleshoot specific IaaS set up issues or answer questions. It is out of scope for Tanzu Support to provide general, IaaS-level support. For general IaaS support, please contact your IaaS vendor.

[2] - Tanzu Support can help to troubleshoot specific installation issues or answer questions. It is out of scope for Tanzu Support to provide specific guidance for your environment, design and installation architecture. Please reach out to your Tanzu Platform Architect for help in these areas.

[3] - This covers the troubleshooting of performance issues within TAS and TKGi itself, not within customer applications deployed to TAS and TKGi.

[4] - Bug fixes are prioritized by Tanzu Engineering with input from Tanzu Support and our customers. There is no guarantee of an immediate fix & Tanzu Support retains the right to close out support tickets if a fix is not immediate.

[5] - Support for buildpacks is an area where we get a lot of questions, as such, this has been broken into a separate document so we can more comprehensively describe our support policy for buildpacks.

[6] - Tanzu Support will provide log analysis and review where appropriate and for the purposes of troubleshooting problems, debugging and root cause analysis.

[7] - The exception is the cf cli. Tanzu Support will assist when developers are using the cf cli.


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