Release Announcement – vRealize Automation 6.2.5

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Still running vRA 6.x, then you will be happy to hear vRA 6.2.5 is now GA and boast some great performance improvements.  See blow for more details.

GA Date:11/17/16

 What’s new?

Enhancements

  • Hotfix Management with toggle feature.
  • SCVMM 2012 R2 support.
  • Enforce lease maximum.
  • Option to hide price and cost with toggle feature.
  • Thick Eager Zeroed disk is supported.
  • Correct Change Owner request status.
  • Display IP address for SCVMM workloads
  • Display correct status for Amazon reconfigure operation.
  • Windows 10 and SLES 12 Guest OS support.
  • Added retry mechanism during failure of catalog resource creation
  • Sync virtual machine description and renaming in vCloud Air to vRealize Automation.
  • Enhanced DEM to avoid crashes.
  • Enhanced telemetry to capture more data: post provisioning, NSX, License, ASD.

Performance Improvements

  • A 70 to 90% gain in vSphere Agent data collection.
  • From 70 to 50 seconds for vCloud DIrector state data collection.
  • From 2 hours to 8 mins for vCloud DIrector inventory data collection in scaled environments.
  • Memory improved for Amazon inventory collection.
  • 50% gain on fabric group listing and actions.

Download Details

            Download Page:                    

https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vrealize_automation/6_2

            Release Notes:       

http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vra/vrealize-automation-625-release-notes.html


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