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You probably woke up today just thinking about just another regular Friday, right?
During my matinal e-mail check, I was surprised by the number of new product's version VMware has released, some are just bug fixes while others contain full new amazing features.

I will highlight the ones I think it’s more relevant, but you can check all the details on each Product’s release.
Don’t be afraid with the number of details to read, focus on the products you have on your environment today instead, I’m sure you will find some fix or new feature that will certainly make your life easier !!!

Should we begin ?

The most amazing feature is new out of the box custom request form that removed the need for wrapping infrastructure and PaaS blueprints into XaaS blueprints.
Definitely a game change. You might also enjoy the capability of deploying vSphere blueprints from OVF or OVA.

vRB still closing the gap against Chargeback when it comes to vCD;
Talking about it, what about Overage policy for allocation pool models applying differential rate for vCPU and RAM usage, killer case for Service Providers!!
Also adding storage tiers pricing based on storage policy, charge of network bandwidth usage and data ingress and egress.
VMware Cloud on AWS got some new feature that worth checking as well.

That’s definitely a product you want on your toolbelt, debuting on this version is the install pre-checker, validating your environment before starting the deployment, content lifecycle management allowing you to manage the release of content such blueprints and workflows across multiples environment.

vROPs still focus on continuous performance optimization and capacity management features, what you can prove by those enhancements;
- 30% footprint reduction when monitoring the same number of objects;
- predictive real-time analytics;
- software license optimization aware for workload placements;
- native cost visibility;
- new quickstart page, customized homepage, enhanced vSAN dashboards and much more.

If you are looking for a central place to check the health of your entirely SDDC, this management pack is made for you. Now with improved vSAN and vCenter alerts, agentless vRA health and vROPs sizing dashboard.

This management pack is great, it provides out of the box vCenter self-healing workflows that act upon alerts…. How great is that ?!?!

Besides some bug fixes, It added support for vCloud Director 9.1

Although it’s in maintenance mode it still receiving fixes and now it’s compatible with vROPs 6.7
If you are looking for a more long-term solution, take a look at vRealize Network Insight
 
You don’t need to deploy dedicated instances for tenants anymore, multi-tenancy is now available on vRO, along with an updated Web-Based Clarity UI that brings centralized log views and workflow details directly on the monitoring client.

This minor release added support for Kubernetes 1.9.5 and Golang 1.9.4 along with a few fixes, from which I highlight;
- nodes are drained before they stop, minimizing downtime.
- unmount docker volumes fixes,
- BOSH DNS issues fix.

vRealize Log Insight 4.6.0 | April 12th 2018
Enhanced support for up to 15 vCenters per node, If some component suddenly stops sending log you can be notified about it, additional APIs for creating/deleting.

It worth mentioning the vRCS will no longer work with vRA 7.4 or later and its functionality is moving to vRealize Lifecycle Manager, but if you still at vRA 7.3 you should get its new version with a lot of improvements and defect fixes, like name of approvers is now recorded in pipeline executions, SLA for manual approvals and out of the box destroy action for deployments.

Happy Friday 13th

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