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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