Deprecated and discontinued features in TCA 3.2 / TCP 5.0

Products

• VMware Telco Cloud Automation
• VMware Telco Cloud Platform

Issue/Introduction

TCA Features that have either been deprecated or discontinued

Environment

TCA: 3.2

TCP: 5.0

Resolution

Deprecated (final supported version):

• Legacy Infrastructure Versions: 
  Deprecating older BOM components including vSphere 7.0U3 / NSX-T (3.2.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x) / VIO (all versions), to ensure customers are building on the latest, most secure platform capabilities.
• Kubernetes v1.24.10
• DPDK igb_uio and other out-of-kernel tree drivers (all versions)
  vfio-pci will continue to be supported.
• chartmuseum charts
• helm3 binary within the BYOI templates
• Photon3 OS for TKG Workload Clusters
• VIM / Endpoints
  • VMware vCenter 7.0u3 and VMware vSphere 7.0u3.
  • VMware NSX or VMware NSX-T (3.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x).
  • VMware NSX-v Manager (all versions).
  • VMware Integrated Openstack (all versions).

Discontinued (no longer supported):

• Native integration with AKO and AKOO (Avi Kubernetes Operator and AKO Operator).
• TKG Single Node Cluster.

Additional Information

See VMware Telco Cloud Automation 3.2: Deprecated and Discontinued features

See VMware Telco Cloud Platform 5.0: Deprecated features