VMware vRealize Suite 8.10 Released

VMware has released VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.10, VMware vRealize Automation 8.10.0, vRealize Automation SaltStack Config 8.10.0, VMware vRealize Orchestrator Appliance 8.10.0 and VMware vRealize Operations 8.10

VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.10

What’s new:

• VMware Cloud Foundation Enhancements
• Usability Enhancements
• vRealize Automation Enhancements
• PSPR Enhancements
• vRealize Operations Manager Enhancements

See the full release notes here.

VMware vRealize Automation 8.10.0 and vRealize Automation SaltStack Config 8.10.0

This version finally introduces the integration support between vRA and vRO user interactions, I have looking for this feature for a long time, and hope to do some testing of this and maybe later write a blog about this.

What’s new:

• vSphere 8 Support
• Cloud Guardrails (vRA Cloud Only) – Guided Setup
• Display salt grains data in Cloud Assembly for a more detailed resource view
• Provide the ability to set custom salt grain data with SaltStack Config resource on Cloud Template
• Custom form fields with defined valueList are displayed as multi value picker
• Integration support between vRA and vRO user interactions

See the full release notes here.

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Appliance 8.10.0

vRealize Orchestrator 8.10 focuses on maintenance and bug fixes.

See the release notes here.

VMware vRealize Operations 8.10

This release has lot of new features and enhancements.

What’s new:

• vSphere 8 Support
• Update of OpenJDK 8 to OpenJDK 11
• vSAN ESA Support in vRealize Operations
  • vSAN Express Storage Architecture (vSAN ESA) introduces a new architecture for vSAN specifically with vSAN 8.0.
  • It is an optional, alternative architecture in vSAN that is designed to achieve all-new levels of efficiency, scalability, and performance.
  • Support for vSAN ESA and changes due to this support are as follows:
    • New Objects
      • vSAN Storage Pool
      • vSAN ESA Disk
  • Summary Pages
    • Two new Summary Pages Introduced as a part of newly added objects
  • Dashboards
    • Two new dashboards and five updated dashboards
  • New Metrics And Properties
    • Six new metrics and one new property at the vSAN Cluster Layer.
    • 12 new metrics and one new property at the vSAN Storage Pool Layer.
    • 21 new metrics and seven new properties at the vSAN ESA Disk Layer.
  • VRealize Operations Web Plugin in vCenter
    • Support for newly added objects (vSAN Storage Pool and vSAN ESA Disk).
• vSAN Adapter Enhancements
  • SPBM API Support Added
• Remote Collectors
• vRealize Operations Cloud Proxy Enhancements
  • vRealize Operations Cloud Proxy Resilienc
  • vRealize Operations Cloud Proxy Troubleshooting
  • Cloud Proxy troubleshooting CLI
  • Cloud Proxy certificate management
  • Cloud Proxy upgrade enhancement
  • Data Persistence for Cloud Prox
• vRealize Operations Cloud Retention Policy Update
• Search support in the administration page
• Advanced workload placement
• Alerts enhancements
• Access control enhancements
• Filter enhancement
• New properties added for RDM Disk in virtual machines
• Simple alerts
• Automation central improvements
• Application discovery based on rules
• NSX-T using IPv6
• Application discovery based on services
• New Metrics and properties to expand Cloud Management capabilities and visibility
• Super Metrics
• VCF cloud account
• VMware Cloud on Dell EMC cloud account
• Native Public Cloud
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
• Export views to external tools for reporting
• View Enhancements
• Capacity management
• Configuration files page redesign
• Metrics and Properties Modifications
• Updated Management Packs
  • vRealize Operations Management Pack for Horizon 2.2
• Instanced Metrics
• Basic authentication using the REST API is deprecated and disabled
• Active Directory Authentication Sources

See the full release notes here.