VMware Aria Automation New Features in versions 8.11.2, 8.11.1 8.11.0 and 8.10.2
The latest release is 8.11.2 released in March 2023
VMware is enhancing the Aria Automation the Multicloud Management solution has a very frequent release cycles to add new features to enhance the product and meet customer demands. Here is the glance of the latest features released in recent versions of VMware Aria Automation.
The table format of the latest features comes handy, I am keeping latest four versions this will be very helpful in understanding that what is newly available. I have planned to maintain this way to have reference to few latest versions as some of you are running previous versions and can easily reference when needed.
This time there are 5 new features have been added related to API, Azure, Saltstack and Cloud Extensibility Proxy
| 8.11.2 | 8.11.1 | 8.11.0 | 8.10.2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 2023 | February 2023 | January 2023 | November 2022 |
| vRealize Automation API Documentation for some services are now upgraded to OpenAPI 3.0 standard | SaltStack Day2 Action Enhancements | New Consume tab | Audit log enhancements for Cloud Assembly |
| Day 0 support for Azure disk performance tiers | vRealize Automation Terraform Service and accompanying Terraform provider now supports Terraform 1.0 | Support for shared VPCs (GCP) in vRealize Automation | Configuration Drift Insight and Dashboard Reporting (vRealize Automation SaltStack Config) |
| Ability to upgrade the Salt Master plugin from SaltStack Config | Customized notifications in Service Broker | SaltConfiguration property is no longer available in Cloud Assembly Template | Enable quick create VM for project members |
| Support for Azure Government Cloud with vRealize Automation | Capacity management enhancements - Storage allocation limits | Day 2 action [GCP] - ability to create a snapshot of VM and attached disks | Ability to run the Change Project action on deployments that contain custom resources |
| Upgrade Deprecated Cloud Extensibility Proxy Versions | Deprecate an identity service endpoint in vRealize Automation | “Reset VM” available as Day 2 action for GCP VMs | Discover existing cloud accounts and enforce governance |
| Provision GCP TCP Load Balancers and perform Day 2 actions | Manage a VMware Cloud on AWS Environment in an AWS GovCloud Region | Support for network proxies in vSphere endpoints | |
| Provision GCP storage bucket resources | Snapshot limits in vRealize Automation is independent of vSphere backups | Additional Guardrails security and cost library template | |
| Support for Selecting Azure Availability Zones | Guardrails support for Azure environments | ||
| Enable Change Project for deployments with Ansible resource | |||
| Create a Guardrails Template from an Existing Azure Environment | |||
| Dry Run a Guardrails template in an Azure Environment | |||
| Capacity management enhancements - CPU allocation limits | |||
| AD Group support within Service Broker for Day-2 Action Policy | |||
| Enable Change Project for deployments with Terraform resource |
For more details on each of the feature always refer to latest vRealize Automation Release Notes
