VMware Aria Automation New Features in versions 8.13.1, 8.13 and 8.12.2
The latest release is 8.13.1 released in September 2023
VMware is enhancing the Aria Automation the Multi-Cloud Management solution has a very frequent release cycle to add new features to enhance the product and meet customer demands. Here is a glance at the latest features released in recent versions of VMware Aria Automation.
The table format of the latest features comes in handy, I am keeping the latest three versions which will be very helpful in understanding what is newly available. I have planned to maintain this way to have reference to a few latest versions as some of you are running previous versions and can easily reference when needed.
| 8.13.1 | 8.13 | 8.12.2 |
|---|---|---|
| 7th September 2023 | July 2023 | June 2023 |
| Custom naming for plug-in resources | Secure Host supports CIS Benchmark for RHEL9 | Continued management of workloads failed over by SRM |
| FIPS compliance for plug-in based resources | Command line support for configuring VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator | Support for VM snapshots in GCP |
| Storage filter should pass all the eligible selections to downstream filters | Support for load balancer in GCP plugin | Support for managing disks resources in GCP |
| Updates to the Service Broker Catalog | Onboarded deployments are compliant with Service Broker policy limits | Support for AWS subnet and Test feature in VCT |
| Plug-in based resources now support new OOTB Day 2 actions | VMware Aria Automation billable object visibility | Support for managing network resource in GCP |
| Updates related to Terraform license changes made by HashiCorp | Day 2 action to change performance tier of Azure storage disks | Support for storage buckets in GCP plugin |
| Add a cloud account for vCenter that is connected to vSphere+ | Rebuild virtual machine for Onboarded and Migrated vSphere workloads | Storage policy support for plugin based resource |
| VMware Aria Automation Config support for Salt Onedir packages | Resource visualization Improvement | Manage shielded instance resources in GCP |
| VMware Aria Automation for Secure Hosts: Qualys Vulnerability scan imports now has UI support | Support for service accounts in GCP plugin | When onboarding machines, ability to also onboard the connected NSX-T networks |
| Salt Open (Open Source Project) release Information | Custom Forms Versions Integrated with Content Items | Support for GCP VMs |
| Limiting the number of vAPI metamodels supoprted by Aria Automation Orchestrator vAPI plug-in | Increasing inventory limits | |
| Custom Forms Versions Integrated with Content Items | ||
| Remove node.js 14 from runtimes and polyglot | ||
| Python 3.7 is deprecated and will be removed in next release | ||
| Optionally neglect CPU/Memory of powered off VMs in resource quota policy | ||
| Unregister provisioned machines Day2 action | ||
| The package signing certificate can now be changed using the "Generate Package Signing Certificate" workflow | ||
| PowerCLI 11 runtime is deprecated | ||
| Qualys Vulnerability scan imports via API with Aria Automation Secure Host |
For more details on each of the features always refer to the latest vRealize Automation Release Notes
