18 December, 2015

A Christmas present from VMware; vRealize Automation 7.0 is GA as of today !!

VMware announced a new version of vRA (vRealize Automation) during the last VMworld. And as of today vRealize Automation is available for download.

For detailed information around compatibility, release notes as well as the download link please go to the vRealize Automation 7.0 Information Center

Below a highlight list of new features and enhancements:

Streamlined and Automated Wizard-based Installation

  • Introduces management agent to automate the installation of Windows components and to collect logs
  • Automates the deployment of all vRealize Automation components
  • Installation wizards based on deployment needs: Minimal (Express) and Enterprise (Distributed) Installations


Simplified Deployment Architecture and High Availability Configuration

  • Embedded authentication service by using VMware Identity Manager
  • Converged Application Services in vRealize Automation Appliance
  • Reduced minimal number of appliances for HA configuration
  • Automated embedded PostgreSQL clustering with manual failover
  • Automated embedded vRealize Orchestrator clustering


Enhanced Authentication Service

  • Integrated user interface providing a common look and feel
  • Enabled multiple features by new authentication service


Simplified Blueprint Authoring for Infrastructure and Applications

  • Single unified model for both machine and application blueprints and unified graphical canvas for designing machine and application blueprint with dependencies and network topology
  • Software component (formerly software service in Application Services) authoring on vSphere, vCloud Air, vCloud Director, and AWS endpoints)
  • Extend or define external integrations in the canvas by using XaaS (formerly Advanced Service Design)
  • Enable team collaboration and role segregation by enhancing and introducing fine-grain roles
  • Blueprint as code and human-readable which can be created in editor of choice and stored in source control or import and export in the same or multiple vRealize Automation 7.0 instances
  • Customer-requested machine and application blueprints provided
  • Additional blueprints available on the VMware Solutions Exchange


Simplified and Enhanced NSX Support for Blueprint Authoring and Deployment

  • Dynamically configure NSX Network and micro-segmentation unique for each application
  • Automated connectivity to existing or on-demand networks
  • Micro-segmentation for application stack isolation
  • Automated security policy enforcement by using NSX security policies, groups, and tags
  • On-demand dedicated NSX load balancer


Enhanced Cloud Support for vCloud Air and AWS

  • Software component authoring for vCloud Air, vCloud Director, and Amazon AWS
  • Simplified blueprint authoring for vCloud Air and vCloud Director
  • Improved vCloud Air endpoint configuration
  • Optional proxy configuration


vRealize Orchestrator 7 New Features

  • Introduce vRealize Orchestrator Control Center for easy monitoring and troubleshooting
  • Significant Smart Client improvements including Workflow tagging UI, Client reconnect options and enhanced search capabilities
  • vSphere 6.X  vAPI endpoint support

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