what is new in vRealize Automation 8.4.

 

VMware has released vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.4, vRealize Automation 8.4, vRealize Automation  on 15 April 2021. In this Blog I am going to high light what is new in vRealize Automation 8.4.

 

Let’s Start !!!!!

 

What is New :-

• Hostname is updated in Ansible Tower
• Support for multi-vm/disk configuration
• Add disk with different sizes
• Changing deployment projects for onboarded deployments
• Documentation to configure proxy for vRA on premises Terraform environments
• Unregister onboarded machines from vRA
• Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 compliance – SaltStack Config
• Accessibility enhancements
• Policy criteria support for additional Integer/String operators
• Networking: Reconfigure Existing Security group for vSphere and VMC – Iterative and Day 2
• Networking: Change On-Demand and Existing Security groups for VMC – Iterative and Day 2
• Single secret store
• Operations center: Custom roles support
• Operations center: Cloud zone Insights enhancement
• Operations center: Distinguish optimizable deployments
• Specify order and SCSI controller for vSphere disks
• Support for disks which are part of the image template
• Disk placement should align with the VM in Workload placementMulti-VM scenario
• Storage allocation as per full VM size
• Simplification of onboarding workflow​
• Onboarding action to support vSphere network interface
• Support for Azure image gallery
• Snapshot management for Azure disks
• Support for Azure disk encryption sets
• Enhanced support for Azure availability sets
• Ansible enhancements
• Puppet enhancements
• Event Broker enhancements
• SaltStack SecOps: SLES 15 Center for Internet Security Content
• Release of vRA STD + and SaltStack SecOps addon in rest of world
• SaltStack Config
• ITSM Plugin
• vRA plug-in in vRO
• ABX Scale
• GCP Sole Tenancy
• IPAM registration for vRA 7.x workloads while onboarding into vRA 8.x
• Change in Access Token API behavior
• Force deleting deployments for the IaaS API endpoint

See the release notes here.