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

Products

• VMware
• 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. 

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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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