New releases from VMware

VMware has released some new version of different products. 

vRealize Network Insight 3.7

This version contains new features plus security and bug fixes.

What's new:

• Increase in Scale for Micro-Segmentation Planning
  
  • ​You can do micro-segmentation in vRealize Network Insight now for 4 million flows.
    
• Centralized Upgrade (Offline)
  
  • vRealize Network Insight supports the single-click offline upgrade from Release 3.7.0 onwards. You can upgrade your system (including clusters) from Release 3.7 to the subsequent releases using the offline bundle.
    
• UI Support for Cluster Expansion
  
  • vRealize Network Insight now supports the expansion of an existing cluster from the UI. The cluster can have maximum of 10 nodes.
    
• vRealize Network Insight System Health Dashboards
  
  • vRealize Network Insight introduces various dashboards to provide the user with information on the overall health of platforms, collectors, and data sources.
    
• vRealize Network Insight System Health Events
  
  • vRealize Network Insight introduces a new set of events related to the health of the system.
    
• AWS Overlapping IP/CIDR Support (Enterprise License Only)
  
  • vRealize Network Insight supports the following topologies for the flows that involves the overlapping IPs/CDRs:
    
    • Intra VPC Flows
      
    • VPC to VPC Flows (Peering)
      
    • Hybrid Flows between AWS Native VPN and NSX Edge IPSec VPN
      
• Infoblox DNS Data Source
  
  • vRealize Network Insight adds support for Infloblox DNS as a data source. Infoblox DNS offers an advanced solution to manage and control DNS.
    
• Support for NSX-V 6.4 and NSX-T 2.1.0
  
  • vRealize Network Insight now supports its existing functionality for new versions of NSX (NSX-V 6.4 and NSX-T 2.1.0)
    
• Introduction of new SKU: ROBO (Remote Office Branch Office)
  
  • This is a new SKU that allows purchase of vRealize Network Insight advanced licenses for remote office / branch office deployments.
    
• Other Enhancements
  
  • The timeout for UI inactivity is now set to 30 minutes from this release. Earlier, the timeout period was 90 minutes.
    
  • vRealize Network Insight supports the administrator privilege at the LDAP group level.
    
  • An additional health check for the NSX-V “Traceflow” module is introduced.
    
  • Several enhancements are made to manage log files in vRealize Network Insight.
    

See the full release notes here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vRealize-Network-Insight/3.7/rn/vrealize-network-insight-37-release-notes.html

VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 Update 1f

This is a security update for Photon OS.

See the full release notes here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/rn/vcenter-server-appliance-photonos-security-patches.html

VMware vSphere Integrated Containers 1.3.1

This version contains new features plus security and bug fixes.

What's new:

• Usability improvements in the Create Virtual Container Host wizard in the vSphere Integrated Containers Plug-In for vSphere Client:
  
• Separated the Security and Registry Access settings into distinct pages.
  
• Improved the automatic granting of permissions to the Operations User account.
  
• Modified the procedure to Upgrade the vSphere Integrated Containers Appliance when upgrading from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1. This change is due to the fact that in 1.3.x the vSphere Integrated Containers appliance has four virtual hard disks, whereas in version 1.2.x the appliance has only two disks.
  

See the full release notes here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere-integrated-containers/13/vsphere-integrated-containers-131-release-notes.html

vSphere Data Protection 6.1.7

This version contains security and bug fixes.

See the full release notes here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/rn/data-protection-617-release-notes.html?src=vmw_so_vex_akjaer_1025