vRealize Automation 8.1 is here!
What's New
vRealize Automation
- XaaS
- Support for Custom resources based on vRO Types
- Custom day2 operations for custom resources and vRealize Automation built-in types
- Custom forms import and export CSS
- Support complex input types for vRO workflow request in SB and a form
- CMP
- Governance/Policy
- Approval Policy
- Resource limits (Memory, CPU)
- Storage limit for vSphere - VM templates and Day 0 only
- Role based access control (RBAC) - OOTB View-Only Roles
- Native support for SPBM policies
- Powershell for ABX
- IaaS Provisioning
- Persistent Disk as-a-Service (API)
- AWS GovCloud
- NSX-T 3.0 Support
- vSphere 7 Support
- Bulk deployment request
- NSX-V: On-demand Security Group
- Networking events for subscription (in ABX and vRO)
- vRO
- Polyglot platform for vRO - Added support for various scripting languages: PowerShell, Node.js, and Python.
- Inventory tree is back!
- Run and Debug Workflow Elements - Users can run and debug an action without having to add it to a workflow and then having to perform a workflow run.
- Debug workflow schema - Users can debug a workflow by setting breakpoints on specific elements in the workflow schema.
- Push changesets to Git branches - vRealize Orchestrator allows users to select, configure, and push changesets to different branches from a Git repository.
- vSphere 6.7 plug-in API update - vSphere plug-in API updated to support version 6.7.
- Multi-tenancy! - vRA 8.1 is is now supporting multiple tenants
- Ecosystem - IPAM SDK, Terraform Provider, Openshift Support, Health Status for Active Directory endpoint
- Catalog Content Sources - OVA from Marketplace, Pipeline as Catalog Items
- Deploy IPv6 workloads on dual-stack IP (IPv4/ IPv6) networks in vSphere
- Support for vRO properties and composite type in vRealize Automation Service broker
- Syslog support for the appliance
- And many, many more enhancements and fixes!
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