Hi Everyone,
I am currently tasked with deploying vRA in a new,on-prem only environment (on a very tight timeline). We are currently debating which version to move forward with. Was wondering if any early adopters of vRA 8 had some insight on how painful it has been in terms of bugs and underdeveloped features.
The pros and cons we have identified so far include:
vRA 7 Cons:
-Longer lead time (deployment)
-Higher resource consumption
- Multiple Windows Server licenses consumed
- Requires a migration later, including reworking of multiple components
vRA 7 Pros:
- - Long established product with more mature features
- - More web resources and documentation due to being out longer
vRA 8 cons:
- - Publicly available for only 2-3 weeks, risk of bugs in initial version
- - Less online documentation/resources (official and unofficial)
- - Some traditional features aren’t as developed
- Approval Workflows
- others?
vRA 8 Pros:
- - Streamlined deployment process
- - Services centralized, no longer requiring Windows and MS SQL licensing
- - Less resource utilization
- - Don’t need to worry about migrating and reworking later
Concerned about building out 7, getting our users used to that look,feel and feature set only to migrate a few months later to a new product,with a new look and feel and some new features and some removed features. Re-working workflows also seems like it is going to be painful after migration.
Also took a look at some documentation and this blog post which was pretty helpful: vRealize Automation (vRA) 8 FAQ
Thanks in advance for any tips
