By Matt, Quill, F5 Networks
Data center automation is one of the hottest trends in IT. Given ever tightening CIO demand to ‘do more with less’ IT organizations need to automate their deployment and configurations as much as possible. The vRealize suite of products form VMware is one of the most commonly used automation and orchestration tools, and today, we’re excited to announce that Blue Medora has delivered a new F5 content pack for VMware vRealize Orchestrator.
To provide a little background, almost three years ago, F5 delivered what has become the most popular vCenter Orchestration content pack, based on number of downloads from VSX. This allowed vRO users to orchestrate their BIG-IPs as part of their broader datacenter workflows. Neat stuff. However that F5 content pack was free and thus community-supported only. In order to offer a fully supported and maintained version, F5 turned to Blue Medora, a specialist in integrating third party products with the vRealize Suite. Together they’ve produced a powerful new integration that is sure to help you improve your datacenter operations workflow.
This isn’t the first time that BIG-IP and vRealize Suite have intersected. Last year, VMware delivered a free vRealize Log Insight content pack for BIG-IP, and Blue Medora delivered a licensable vRealize Operations management pack for BIG-IP. The result is that BIG-IP is integrated with the entire vRealize Suite now, including, by default, vRealize Automation.
This new F5 Content Pack released today contains several key enhancements to the previous community supported F5 Content Pack:
- Over 50 workflows supported
- Day-0 operations to automate the configuration of licensing, networking (VLANS, Self-IPs), and Hardware or Virtual Edition High Availability Configuration
- Over 1800+ scriptable actions for advanced DevOps for maximum flexibility
- Full support and maintenance updates for a reasonable per-device fee
In summary, we’re excited to announce this key milestone and invite you to visit Blue Medora’s website for a trial of the new F5 Content Pack. It represents an important next step in the development of the vRealize Orchestrator Plug-In ecosystem.
