Monthly Archives: August 2016

The Scoop: vRealize Automation 7.1

vRealize Automation 7.1 in now Generally Available for download. This release brings several features and enhancements, but primarily sticks to the themes of Time to Value, Quality and Stability. Another focus point for this release is to provide customers currently on vRA 6.x an upgrade path to all the benefits of the 7.x platform.

vRealize Automation 7.1

• Product Page: https://www.vmware.com/products/vrealize-automation
• Download: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vrealize_automation/7_1
• Release Notes: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vra/vrealize-automation-71-release-notes.html
• Docs: https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vrealize-automation-pubs.html

I’ll be posting some details around a few of the new capabilities in the next several weeks, but for now here’s a summary list of what vRA 7.1 delivers…

Time To Value

• Streamlined deployment and prereq installation process
• Silent installer leveraging new vra-command CLI tool
• Install management agents, prereqs, and core for VA and IaaS nodes
• Use wizard-generated unattended properties file for subsequent silent installations
• Leverages new VA public API (https://<vrava_ip>:5480/config/):

  
  

• UI-based (VAMI) Migration wizard
• Migrate from vRealize Automation 6.2.x environment to a new vRealize Automation 7.1 instance
• Complete DB migration (vPostgres and SQL)
• Migrate IDVA/SSO Directories to vIDM
• Preserves the source 6.2.x environment
• Supports migrating from 6.2.x Simple to 7.1 HA/Distributed (as well as HA to HA):

  

• vSphere Endpoint Improvements
• Data collection performance increased by ~60%
• Support for vSphere infrastructure changes (e.g.

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