4.2.1 vCloud Director 8.0 and Earlier
In vCloud Director 8.0 and earlier versions, Organization VDC and vApp edge gateways are deployed in vShield (legacy) compatibility mode (NSX Edge version 5.5.4).
Figure 7. NSX Edge Nodes in Legacy Compatibility Mode
It is important in vCloud Director 8.0 and earlier not to upgrade legacy edge services gateways to VMware NSX version 6 because this will break vCloud Director compatibility. Older versions of vCloud Director 5.5.x and 5.6.x have a bug that results in an edge upgrade on vCloud Director redeploy action. To prevent this behavior, the following vCloud Director database change is necessary prior to vCloud Network and Security migration.
When upgrading to VMware NSX 6.2, add the following line to the config table in the vCloud Director SQL Server database:
INSERT INTO config (cat, name, value, sortorder) VALUES ('vcloud', 'networking.edge_version_for_vsm6.2', '5.5', 0);
Note Use networking.edge_version_for_vsm6.1 if NSX 6.1 is used or networking.edge_version_for_vsm6.0 if NSX 6.0 is used.
