VMware Aria Suite 8.14 Released
VMware has released Aria Automation 8.14, Aria Automation Config 8.14, Aria Automation Orchestrator 8.14, Aria Operations 8.14, Aria Operations for Logs 8.14 and Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.14.
There are some really exciting new features with this releases.
Aria Automation 8.14, Aria Automation Config 8.14, Aria Automation Orchestrator 8.14
With the Aria Automation 8.14 there are some new features, that I have been requesting for at long time like, new Extensibility subscription Event topics for approvals. With this we can easier move the approvals to for example Service Now, and upon “Approved”/”Rejected” approval doing custom things like update a Service Now request or sending more customized E-mails then what is possible with build in e-mails (they are now customizable, but we sometimes need some things that is not possible with this.)
What’s new:
- New unified tile for VMware Aria Automation with regranded service names
- Usability enhancements to VMware Aria Automation Config
- Custom forms variable to distinguish fields between Create and Update Forms
- eneral Availability of Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI)
- Using free IP address space across the set of all IP ranges for VMs and LB VIP
- Quick bulk onboarding for VMs from the Virtual Machines page
- Disks added through VMware Aria Automation 8.x can now follow the naming convention followed by vSphere
- IPv6 support for VMware Aria Automation provisioned workloads with an external IPAM
- Support for deployment related property conditions for custom day2 actions
- Support for vCenter hosts and clusters in maintenance mode
- Support for Active Directory on Windows 2022 for vIDM 3.3.7 with the latest VMSA patch
- Extensibility events are available for approval workflows
- An approval request is created
- An approval request is approved
- A request is approved by the authorized user
- An approval request is rejected
- A request is approved at a level in a multi-level approval policy
- Update image mappings in bulk across cloud accounts
- Availability of Unregister day 2 action function for missing VMs
- Improved tag management through the API and user interface
- Deprecation notice for VMware Aria Automation extensibility action runtimes
- Aria Orchestrator
- The runtime version for Python is updated to 3.10
- The runtime version for PowerCLI is updated to 12
See the full release notes here.
Aria Operations 8.14
What’s new:
- Product Support Notice:
- VMware Aria Operations 8.14 will be the last release to provide support for Remote Collectors, they are replaced by Cloud Proxy
- vRealize Application Remote Collector are not supported any more
- Upgrade to Photon OS v4.0
- Launchpad updated
- vSAN Oversubscription Metrics
- Green Score for Physical Data Centers
- Alerts
- Alert Notification Forensics
- Notification Heartbeat
- Credential management changes
- Native Content Cleanup
- Application Monitoring
- Ability to configure monitoring for remote and physical end points from the UI with the packaged Telegraf agent
- Ability to configure Telegraf content at scale for workloads allowing bulk Telegraf plugin configuration from the UI
- Technical consolidation of the current application monitoring adapters
- New Dashboards for Application Monitoring
- REST API calls for the Application Monitoring Adapter
- New Availability Metric for Application Monitoring Objects
- PowerShell Scripts Collect Data for Credential-less Service Discovery
- Compliance Pack Upgrades
- The vSphere Compliance Pack is updated to support the following benchmarks:
- VMware vSphere 7 Security Configuration Guide Update 3
- VMware vSphere 8 Security Configuration Guide
- For more information, see VMware SDDC Benchmark Details.
- The CIS Compliance Pack is updated to support the following benchmarks:
- CIS_VMware_ESXi_6.7_Benchmark_V1.3.0
- CIS_VMware_ESXi_7.0_Benchmark_V1.2.0
- The NSX-T Compliance pack is updated to support the following standards:
- NSX-T 3.2 Security Configuration Guide
- NSX-T 3.1 Security Configuration Guide
- NSX-T 3.0 Security Configuration Guide
- The vSphere Compliance Pack is updated to support the following benchmarks:
- New Compliance Pack
- VMware Cloud Foundation Compliance Pack based on VCF Audit Guides
- Native Management Packs
- New Dashboards for NSX Management Pack
- VMware Aria Operations for Logs Management Pack
- Microsoft Azure Government
- Metric search in Troubleshooting Workbench
- And more
See the full release notes here.
Aria Operations for Logs 8.14
What’s new:
- Security Enhancements
- Content Pack Enhancements
- Support for Uploading Trusted Certificates via User Interface
- VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer Support
- Stability Improvements
- Platform Modernization
- Security Fixes
See the full release notes here.
Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.14
What’s new:
- Script Execution through VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle for all managed products.
- Automatic recovery mechanism for clustered VMware Identity Manager in events such as:
- Temporary network glitches.
- Loss of cluster virtual IP during network outages / reboots etc.
- Support for Cloud Extensibility Proxy upgrades.
- SMTP and Upgrade Planner support with proxy configured.
- Github Cloud source control endpoint support for Content Management.
- Cloud Template & Custom Form versioning support during capture and releases in Content Management.
- VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle can be deployed using Aria Suite Easy Installer on supported hyperscaler environments. VASL 8.14.0 will support VMC and AVS natively.
- Reverse Lookup pre-checks added to VMware Aria Automation upgrades.
- PostgreSQL performance enhancement to address high CPU usage.
- CEIP (Customer Experience Improvement Program) is now available as Day-2 action on managed products.
See the full release notes here.