We’ve really dove into using VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle, but find we need to understand Best Practices and Recommended deployments a little further.
Lifecycle appears to be very capable to handle multiple environments including Production, Horizon/VDI, and TestDev. We currently have two additional environments deployed in the single LCM:
Where we have Automation/Orchestrator in both Production and TestDev.
But because it only allows a single deployment of vIDM as “globalenvironment”, we have a question about being able to run a vDIM upgrade through and testing against our TestDev environments before upgrading vIDM in Production.
I am contemplating deploying a second Lifecycle Manager as TestDev with TestDev globalenvironment vIDM. Deleting the TestDev environment from production, and adding to the new TestDev LCM. Then migrating other TestDev environments to use the new TestDev vIDM (NSX, vRA, etc). Probably deploy Operations and Operations for logs.
Any thoughts? The one comment I had gotten from VMware Explore was content pipelines where I can migrate Cloud Templates and Orchestrator Workflows. But it appears I can create content endpoints in LCM from any managed or unmanaged environment.
