What's New in vRealize Operations 8.6

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Today, VMware is announcing vRealize Operations 8.6 which includes a ton of additional features and capabilities. These updates include numerous enhancements to public cloud support (including support for monitoring ALL AWS services including custom metrics), a revamped user interface, support for defining custom email notices within the user interface (FINALLY!), new methods to define customer groups, the inclusion of vRealize True Visibility compute and storage management packs for all editions, and new sustainability-related dashboards.

What's New in vRealize Automation 8.6

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Today is the first day of VMworld 2021 and with it, VMware has announced VMware vRealize Automation 8.6. With it comes many additional enhancements and a few new features to make managing your clouds much simpler. As is typical, VMware has not provided an exact release date but has stated that it will be released in Q3 of FY22. Enhancements in vRealize Automation 8.6 Leverage Azure provisioning capabilities, including the ability to configure the name for the Azure NIC interfaces.

VMware vRealize Automation 8.5 is Now Available

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VMware vRealize Automation 8.5 has reached general availability as of August 19, 2021. With this release, VMware has provided several enhancements and new capabilities, including: Assign a Project Administrator as an approver in Approval Policies. Customize the amount of time an IP address is retained before being released after it is no longer in use. Limit the number of K8 Supervisor Namespaces that can deployed for a given Project. The vRealize Orchestrator plug-in for vRealize Automation 8.

VMware vRealize Automation 8.4.2 Released

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On June 24, 2021, VMware released the second minor update to vRealize Automation 8.4. vRealize Automation 8.4.2 adds several updates and includes a few bug fixes as well. The full release notes can be found here: vRealize Automation 8.4.2 Release Notes. Known Issue During Upgrades There is a known issue with upgrading to this release. In the previous vRealize Automation 8.4.1 release, VMware made a change to the user permissions within vRealize Automation regarding the Migration Assistant service.

DISA Releases VMware vSphere 6.7 STIGs – Version 1, Release 1

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Almost exactly 3 years after vSphere 6.7 was released (April 17, 2018) and approximately 17 months prior to the end of General Support (October 15, 2022), the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) made available the first STIGs for VMware vSphere 6.7 on April 22, 2021. The STIGs can be downloaded from the Public DoD Cyber Exchange STIGs Document Library by searching for “VMware vSphere 6.7”. What’s New? Unlike the previous VMware vSphere 6.

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