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VCF 5.0 SDDC Manager introduces Context-aware prechecks. As part of this new feature VCF 5.0 introduces a new precheck engine capable of granular precheck selections. SDDC Manager prechecks can be run for specific components and data returned is context-specific for that component. VCF 5.0 Framework is context-aware for the following components:

• SDDC Manager
• vCenter
• NSX
• ESXi
• VxRail Manager

These Granular level prechecks are capable:

• At each cluster level
• At each domain level

Parallel accomplishment of prechecks across the domains is also supported with this feature.

1.Domain-level prechecks

• Domain-level precheck functionality is preserved.
• Customers can select whether they want to run a full domain-level precheck or a more narrow context precheck.
• Functionality is available via API and UI.

2.Context-aware prechecks

• This is new functionality. It allows users to associate individual prechecks with different contexts.
• Customers can select one of the available contexts (SDDC Manager, vCenter, NSX, ESXi, VxRail Manager) and run only the prechecks associated with that context.
• Functionality is available via API and UI.

Target Version & General Update Readiness prechecks:

The Target Version dropdown selection will only show target versions from VCF 5.x once SDDC Manager has been updated to 5.0.​ Prechecks are specific to the VCF target release.

A General Update Readiness precheck can be run anytime for:​​

• An entire workload domain​​
• A custom selection will run a precheck against a specific BOM component, cluster, or edge​​
• Can be used as a health check on a periodic basis​

DEMO: Context Aware Pre-Check

The following demonstrates this new Context Aware pre-check selecting the General Upgrade Readiness option. Running 2 different context aware pre-checks in parrallel across both the Mgmt & VI Workload Domains.