So you built a hybrid cloud model using VMware Cloud on AWS and are undoubtedly benefiting from all the goodness a true hybrid cloud can bring to your organization. VMware Cloud on AWS has helped many of our customers quickly and easily achieve a path to hybrid cloud and because it is based on vSphere
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Posting messages to services such as Slack or MS Teams, is quite easy with Custom Integrations in vRealize Automation Code Stream. With this use case, I’ll demonstrate how you can vastly improve your team’s collaboration capabilities when it comes to consuming CI/CD Pipelines for end-to-end orchestration. For those already familiar with Code Stream, you’ll likely
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The financial aspect of deploying VMs is becoming more critical as usage of cloud increases. Showing the price of VMs to end users can help influence their behavior when requesting new VMs and maintaining their existing VMs. With the release of vRealize Automation 8.1 and vRealize Operations 8.1, defining the prices of your VMs is
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We are announcing the general availability of VMware vRealize Automation 8.1, the latest release of VMware’s industry-leading hybrid cloud infrastructure automation platform. vRealize Automation 8.1 delivers new and enhanced capabilities to help organizations implement self-service hybrid clouds, multi-cloud automation with governance, and DevOps-based infrastructure delivery. Key enhancements for this release encompass the following areas: Modern Platform. Custom
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vRealize Automation (vRA) 8.1 represents a major step forward for vRA. This release expands on the amazing work our development team accomplished since the 8.0 release in October 2019. This blog post will walk through the new features in 8.1 at a high level. Nearly all the feature summaries have an associated technical blog link
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With the release of vRealize Automation (vRA) 8.1, we are offering support for dedicated infrastructure multitenancy. This capability is enabled as a separate process in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (LCM) once vRA is installed and configured. There is no requirement to enable tenancy. If tenancy is disabled, vRA 8.1 will operate exactly in the same
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The ability to create and manage infrastructure and services for your organization just became more flexible and powerful with the introduction of Custom Resources and Resource Actions in vRealize Automation. Taking advantage of the out-of-the-box integration with vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) you can now create Resources and Day-2 actions using vRO workflows in your blueprints and
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I am excited to announce a great new feature in vRealize Automation 8.1 (vRA) that will allow customers who are using VMware Cloud Foundation(VCF) to more easily consume the infrastructure and policies that are provided with the VCF solution. When building a Private or Hybrid Cloud it is important to provide services to users who
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Today, we are launching VMware’s next-generation Network Automation solution, powered by VMware vRealize Automation 8.1, VMware’s modern infrastructure automation platform, and VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.0, the latest release of VMware’s flagship network virtualization platform. As mentioned in our previous Network Automation blog, VMware vRealize Automation 8.1 and VMware NSX-T Data Center help organizations accelerate
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In addition to Python and NodeJS, vRealize Automation now supports PowerShell as a scripting language for writing Action Based Extensibility (ABX) code. Actions are executed based on lifecycle events, using functions-as-a-service (FaaS), to extend the functionality of the platform. PowerShell is only supported for on-premises deployments, and requires an appliance deployed alongside the Cloud Proxy
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