vRA 7!!!

[greco827]

I saw that vRA 7 has been announced.  Does anyone know of a projected release date?  Q1 2016???

[vSeanClark]

Bigger question, are the legacy windows components still required?  It's ambiguous in the few blog posts released already.  Initial reaction was, "Woo Hooo!!!  They killed the Windows requirement!", but then I'm seeing screen shots about DEMs and MS SQL server setup......  

[greco827]

Good point, that is a good question.

[SeanKohler]

Those who know probably cannot speak to it in a public forum... 

[v1gnesh]

Based on what I've learnt from the recent blog posts on this topic...

IaaS VM (and the accompanying MS SQL) is still required.

Data about blueprints have been moved from the IaaS SQL DB to the vPostgres DB; so this would mean updating vRO workflows/plugin (can't remember the exact entity) to refer to entries from the new vPostgres DB rather than the IaaS MS SQL DB.

vCAC ID VA (identity virtual appliance) or vCenter SSO are both now replaced by vIDM (VMware Identity Management). vIDM is embedded in the vCAC appliance so there's just one appliance now.

The other bit of news is that distributed install option is shown as an available deployment topology via the new installer wizard.

[pizzle85]

At VMWorld they said it was slated for release Q4 2015.

[Lost_Steak]

I have heard it will be out on the 12th of December

[prestonville]

v1gnesh summary is good. The new unified blueprint now sits in the CAFE appliance and is postgres so also i understand takes the 2nd day operations code to CAFE. The Windows IAAS will be around for a good while yet as the porting of it from windows .net is time consuming. The installation has been greatly simplified and really does look good. For people on 6.2 there will be an upgrade path to 7 but I don't think published yet. Probably will be create new blueprint in unified canvas and add existing extensible calls. All these talked about in general sessions in VMworld. I saw it and was impressed.