VMware has released VMware vRealize Automation 8.10 as on October 2022. With this release, VMware has provided
several enhancements and new Features.
This is released introduce the ability
for SaltStack users to view grains data of the salt vms at the time of
deployment in Cloud Assembly and also resolved the issue , Spaces in Action
Based Extensibility name is causing some issues in UI
New Features
- Cloud Guardrails (vRA Cloud Only) - Guided Setup
A guided
setup is now included in Guardrails. This feature takes you through guided
steps to onboard the cloud environments into Guardrails and enforce governance.
- Display salt grains data in Cloud Assembly for a
more detailed resource view
This
release provides the ability for SaltStack users to view grains data of the
salt vms at the time of deployment in Cloud Assembly.
- Provide the ability to set custom salt grain data
with SaltStack Config resource on Cloud Template
Cloud
admins can now set custom salt grains as part of SaltStack Config Resource on a
Cloud Template. This enables the cloud admins to manage the provisioned
resource using the highstate file.
- Custom form fields with defined valueList are
displayed as multi value picker
When
adding a row or object fields in the custom forms designer, complex nested fields
that have a defined valueList in their schema are now displayed as Value Picker
or Multi Value Picker with enhancements to show default labels.
- Integration support between vRA and vRO user
interactions
The
vRA and vRO integration now supports 'User Interaction' during provisioning to
Allow the ability to collect information that may not be known during the
request time. This feature has these limitations:
- Nested workflows containing Manual User
Interactions don't create work items under 'Inbox' tab. In that case, the
interaction can only be answered from vRO directly.
- Script operations on LdapUsers and LdapGroups
from executions from vRA won't yield result
- Requires the latest version of vRO (8.9.1) to
work properly, due to fixes in vRO itself
- Variables of type SecureString cannot be
displayed in the MUI form properly
Supported
for Catalog Items, Custom Resources and Resource Actions. Learn more about user input requests.
Resolved Issues
- Default cluster group is not enabled for Cloud
Assembly user with custom role
Cloud
assembly user with custom role for managing integrations can't select default
cluster group on TMC integration.
- Error importing Qualys scan results in Saltstack
(SecOps) config UI
Importing
latest version of Qualys scan report results in an error in Saltstack config
(SecOps) UI.
- vRA deployed boot disk show as Discovered in
resource center
Boot
disk which is a part of the deployment appears as deployed/onboarded resources ** in
resource view.
- Spaces in Action Based Extensibility name is
causing some issues in UI
When
working with an action name that starts or ends with a white space, you cannot
search for these actions in the UI. In the editor the white space is trimmed,
resulting in an error “Action is not in same project as Flow ”,
because the action with the trimmed name could not be found.
- First Class Disk resize from vRA fails on vCenter
versions >= 7.0.3
From
vRA, the resize action on a First Class Disk attached to a VM fails on vC
version 7.0.3. The same action completed successfully when performed directly
on the vCenter using PowerCLI. The issue is identified with the fail fast
mechanism present in vRA that checks if the disk is attached and immediately
fails the request.
- Inconsistencies with data may occur when
switching from text to password field in custom form
Data
inconsistencies might occur when service broker admins switch from text to
password field in custom form.
- vRealize Orchestrator (vCOIN) - Context Actions
sometimes are not Initialized on clean setup
When
an administrator tries to assign a context action from a workflow page it may
throw an error.
Note:
If an error occurs again after the upgrade, log into the vRO Web Client with an
administrator account to the Configurations page, and delete the configuration
elements residing in the following directory - '/vCOIN/_system'. Then login
again in the vSphere client with administrator account and navigate to the
context actions page and retry again.
- vRealize Orchestrator(vRO) - Scheduled tasks
were failing intermittently because the authentication tokens had to
be renewed.
The
issue is now fixed with this release. vRO Scheduled tasks no longer
require authentication tokens to be renewed for non-administrator users when
not using the vRA plugin in the Workflow. Scheduled tasks will continue to run
successfully.
- REST operations fail to encode special characters
As
of 8.8.0 vRO version, invoking REST operations with query parameter values that
contained certain special characters ($, ) failed with "Illegal group
reference" error. Another manifestation of this bug could be incorrectly
sent query parameter values, which didn't match the server's expectations.
Resolution:
Upgrade vRO platform version to 8.10.0 or upgrade just the REST plug-in to the
build released with vRO 8.10.0
- Overprovision occurs when attempting to onboard
past resource limits
Analysis
of Relocation showed that the Provisioning Service API erroneously returned a
capacity that was available when in fact it shouldn't have been. This was
reflected by the cloud zone where resources were not consumed by onboarded
workloads when they should have been.
Now,
the requests coming to provisioning service are now serialized, so capacity
requests and allocation worked as expected.
Changed and Deprecated Functionality
- Deprecate PowerCLI 11.5
Powershell
6 with PowerCLI 11.5 has been deprecated. Use PowerCLI 12.7.0 in its place.
- SaltStack Config
Upcoming
in the October 2022 (next) release, the saltConfiguration property will be
deprecated and removed. Users are encouraged to use the saltResource property
in its place
