VMware Cloud Foundation - Design Decision - Use ephemeral port binding for the management port group.

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

Design Decision: Use ephemeral port binding for the management port group.

Resolution

Design Justification: Using ephemeral port binding provides the option for recovery of the vCenter Server instance that is managing the distributed switch.

Design Implication: Port-level permissions and controls are lost across power cycles, and no historical context is saved.

This design decision is supported in the following Domains. 
•    Management Domain
•    VI Workload Domain

This design decision is supported on VCF version 4.1 and higher. 

Note: To search for additional information regarding "Using Ephemeral Ports for Management Port group", refer KB

Using Ephemeral Ports for Management Port Group

 

Additional Information

Please reference the VMware Cloud Foundation version you are running and if this design decision is applicable to you. 

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