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On November 2023 Broadcom announced the sucessfully aquisition of VMware, which will now be operated as VMware by Broadcom, while the operation is still new the commitments with customers has never been stronger, a major investment will be made during 2024 to help customers, build, operate and manage their applications, cloud native or on-prem.

 

But today I wanna focus on the recently news on VMware Aria.

 

VMware Aria Automation (formerly vRealize Automation)

Cloud: November release available on 18/Nov/2023 - Release notes:
On-premises: version 8.14.1 available on 28/Nov/2023

  • Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI) enabled for all customers in US;
  • Plugin base for Azure resources; Machines, Network, disks, storage accounts, SQL databases;

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  • Creation of catalog itens directly from VMs in vSphere +;
  • Support of OVF properties when using template from Content Library;
  • Support for on-prem GitLab Enterprise;



 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
  • New Infoblox plugin (version 1.5.1)

 

Cloud: October release available on 14/Oct/2023
On-premises: version 8.14 available on 19/Oct/2023

  • Day 2 actions for Deployments;
  • IPv6 support for external IPAMs;
  • Quick bulk onboard discovered VMs;
  • New event Topics for approval;

 
  • Updated Extensibility Actions runtime versions;
    • AWS
      • Python 3.7 -> 3.10
      • Node.js 14 -> 18
    • Azure
      • Python 3.8 -> 3.10
      • Node.js 11 -> 18
    •  On-prem
      • Python 3.7 -> 3.10
      • Node.js 14 -> 18
      •  Powershell 7.17 - > 7.2.7

 

VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator

Cloud: November release available on 18/Nov/2023 - Release notes:
On-premises: version 8.14.1 available on 28/Nov/2023

  • It's a maintenance release;
    • workflow stuck in waiting state;
    • Git repository performance;
    • vSphere upgrade replication plugin;
       

VMware Aria Automation Config (formerly SaltStack Config)

Cloud: November release available on 18/Nov/2023 - Release notes:
On-premises: version 8.14.1 available on 28/Nov/2023

 

  • Vulnerability pre and post remediation actions;

 

Cloud: October release available on 14/Oct/2023
On-premises: version 8.14 available on 19/Oct/2023

  • Usability enhancements;
    • View notifications on user actions;
    • Refresh icons fo all applicable pages;
    • Copy icon for job identification (JID);
    • more descriptive job satus executions;


 
VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations)
On-premises: version 8.14.1 available on 23/Nov/2023 - release notes
 
  • It's a maintenance release;
    • What-if add host scenation display no servers;
    • Cloud proxy upgrade failures;
    • Improve data Collection throughput;
    • K8s cost issues;
Cloud: October release available on 18/Oct/2023 - release notes
On-premises: version 8.14 available on 19/Oct/2023
 
  • New vSAN Oversubscription Capacity and Ratio has been addedd;
  • Green Score for physical datacenters;
  • Ability to simulate alert notification;
  • Enhanced credential management, identifying owners;
  • Configure Telegraf content at scale;
  • 8.14 is the latest version supporting remote collectors, upgrade to cloud proxy;
  • Appliance have been upgraded to Photon OS 4.0;
     
 

VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight)

On-premises: version 8.14.1 available on 23/Nov/2023 - release notes

  • It's a maintenance release;
    • Fixed issues with upgrade process;
    • User is locked after a single incorrect login;

Cloud: October release available on 25/Oct/2023 - release notes
On-premises: version 8.14 available on 19/Oct/2023

  • Federations between on-prem and SaaS implementation, allowing query on-prem data from SaaS without incurring charges;

 
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  • in-product links for training materials;
  • New content pack and fixes;
    • Openshift;
    • Tanzu Kubernetes Grid;
    • vSAN;
  • Update trusted certificate via UI;
  • Support for NSX Advanced Load Balancer;
  • platform has been updated to Photon OS 4.0
  • platform has been updated to Java untime 11;
     

If you missed the news from June-July it's all posted in here:

Nice reading !!!

 

 





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