So finally it’s here, vRealize Automaiton (vRA) 7 formerly known as vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) was released yesterday 2015-12-17 and as many of you already knows it brings a lot of new features compared to vRA 6.x.
I have blogged about new features for vRA 7 before so this is just a short summary:
- Per Tenant Branding
- No more VMware Identity Appliance – Identity management is now included in the vRA virtual appliance (VA) as a serviced you can even have local users for e.g. proof of concept environment
- Can be deployed in high availability (HA) mode via the first OVA deployment wizar
- Other non VA services can be distributed via the initial deployment step so you basically assign different roles to available VM/server
- Blueprints including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Applications and Networking (NSX) via a nice drag ‘n drop interface.
- Use external approval engines in the workflow via Event Broker Service (EBS).
- Easier to integrate with external systems
- Export and Import your blueprint(s).
- Use vRealize Orchestrator workflows to subscribe any events triggered by any of the following events
- IaaS life cycle state and entity changes
- Business groups management operations
- Approval policy and pre- or post-approval actions
- Blueprint operations
- Other system operations
- Support custom events
- Support blocking and non-blocking subscriptions
Valuable vRA 7 links:
vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) 7 formerly known as vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) was also released yesterday and below are a few news
- HTML 5 based UI
- Control Center UI for:
- Configuration
- Workflow management
- Troubleshooting
- New plugin management
vRO 7 release notes can be found here and the bits can be downloaded here.
So your weekend just got a bit more interesting:)