This month VMware has released some new versions of it's products, covering new models, architectures,features, compatibility enhancement and bug
fixes.
I know it’s a lot to digest, my suggestion is to
you focus on the products you already have deployed today and, if time
permits, check the ones you see as a candidate to compound your solution in the
near future.
I challenge you to read it and don’t find
anything that you would not benefit from.
It’s a huge change for vRA, I would say a remarkable one that would
definitely makes vRA a reliable and efficient solution for private clouds.
The improvements I most enjoyed are the streamlined and automated wizard install for single and
distributed environments, new Blueprint authoring, allowing on a single pane
the creation of VMs provisioning (IaaS) with applications installation (former
Application Services) and a lot more, here’s a good blog postt about the
enhancements.
vRO introduces Control Center, which enables a centralized server
administration, easier cluster configuration, troubleshooting and runtime metrics
and some plugin improvements.
Although it’s not the latest’s version of vCD,
It adds support for Internet Explorer 11 along with some bug fixes, like when
accessing media files and some AD issues with federation.
There are a lot of improvements on this new
version of BDE, things like multi template allowing you to choose different
templates for each Hadoop cluster, customization of virtual disks and
controllers , support for spark clusters, enhanced compatibility with Cloudera
CDH 5.4, HortonWorks HDP 2.3, Ambari 2.1 and Pivotal PHD 3.0.
It had some improved architecture changes as access to VMware Identity
Management from vRA and separate remote data collectors for remote sites and
more on areas like pricing support, cloud comparison and user interface.
It’s a management release, which upgraded Apache Tomcat to 7.0.65 and
JRE to 1.8.0_51, Showback Management was also removed.
Now you can download drivers, tools, open source
software and custom ISOs, along with some bug fixes that, in some cases,
prevented you from downloading the binaries you need.
If you are not familiar with Software Manager
check this post out.
For Hyperic it’s just a maintenance release,
upgrading it’s internal components like:, Postgres to 9.1.15, Tomcat to version
8 and others, but I believe people are moving to vROPs where Hyperic is alredy
built in
It’s just a maintenance release fixing some
bugs, but also increases the security disabling SSLv3 and enabling by default
TLS 1.1 and 1.2. On the functionality side, now Linux desktop servers support
clipboard redirection, single sing-on and smart-card redirection
It introduces the in-place OS migration from
Windows 7 to Windows 10, here’s a nice post about this migration.
What a scalability enhancement going from 1.000
clients to 10.000 per server ?!?! also a more intuitive interface for editing
policies and a better error reporting and updating certificates.
good reading..
