VMware vRealize Automation 8.4 is Now Available

VMware vRealize Automation 8.4 has reached general availability as of April 15, 2021. With this release, VMware has provided several enhancements and new capabilities, including:

• Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 compliance for SaltStack Config
• Accessibility enhancements
• Consolidated secret store
• Addition of resource tag-based as well as string-based and integer-based operators for use in policy criteria
• Changes and improvements to the onboarding process including a simplification of the process, the ability to change the project for an onboarded deployment as a day 2 action, the ability to unregister an onboarded deployment, and the ability to bring in the connected vSphere network interface as part of onboarding
• Numerous changes regarding VM disks, disk placement, and disk management
  • Cloud Assembly Support for Multiple Disks Clusters, Disk Sizes per Template & SCSI Controller Management
  • Cloud Assembly’s Disk Placement, Storage allocation enhancements and Optimized Cluster Disk Deployment/Attachment
  • Better vRA support for disks which are part of an image template
• Additional image and snapshot management capabilities for Azure
• Enhancements to Ansible and Puppet support
• A major redesign to the ServiceNow ITSM plugin
• A brand new vRealize Automation plugin for vRealize Orchestrator
• Updated access token API behavior
• A new “force delete” functionality for IaaS API endpoints
• Support for Azure VMware Solution and Google Cloud VMware Engine
• Changes to the “blueprint-service,” “Snapshot Creation for Block Device - Provisioning Service,” “Azure Storage profile creation - Provisioning Service,” “Attach Block Device to a Machine - Provisioning Service” API endpoints, as well as the addition of a new “Resource quota policy - Aggregator service” API endpoint

For the full details on all changes in vRealize Automation 8.4, check out the vRealize Automation 8.4 Release Notes - What’s New. 

For a technical overview of the changes in vRealize Automation 8.4, check out the What’s New with vRealize Automation 8.4 – Technical Overview VMware Blog post.

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