VMware Aria Automation New Features in versions 8.11.2

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