VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Network requriements post Broadcom aquisition

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Following the broadcom aquisition of VMware It is no longer required to allow traffic to the vmware urls listed in the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle ports documentation:

Environment

 VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.x

Cause

• Following the VMware by Broadcom Day 2 transition on May 6, 2024, Customer Connect has been migrated to the Broadcom Support. This migration impacts the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle as follows:
  • All Product Support Packs, along with product and patch binaries, will now need to be downloaded from the Broadcom Support Portal
  • Users must then manually map these into the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
  • Additionally, all online download methods previously available in the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle will be disabled in the user interface upon upgrading to our next release.

Resolution

No longer required to allow traffic to the vmware urls listed in the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle ports documentation