VMware announced the General Availability of vCloud
Automation Center (vCAC) 5.1.
This is the first release as part of the VMware family since
DynamicOps joined the company in July, 2012. This release comes only five
months after the acquisition and five months since the last release (4.5 in
July) with five major features. In addition, this release is part of the vCloud
Suite Enterprise edition.
Notable features and integrations in this release include:
·
vCloud Director integration
— Provision vApps to virtual
datacenters
— Support for vCloud
Director private or public clouds
·
Invocation of vCenter Orchestrator workflows
— Facilitates Facilitates
integration with third party technologies and systems
— Expands the vCAC
automation library
·
Multi-machine services
— Streamlines the
provisioning and ongoing management of multiple machines
— Deliver multiple machines
with one operation
— Manage multiple machines
as a single entity
·
Ability to reconfigure virtual machines
— Policy-driven reconfigure
approvals
— Policy-driven threshold
enforcement (min, max thresholds)
— Self-service management of
existing machines
— Add or remove CPU, memory,
and storage from an existing virtual machine
·
Simplified storage management
— Define one or more volumes
on different storage paths
Congratulations to the Engineering, QE, Documentation, and PMM
teams who succeeded in delivering this release in the short period of time
after the acquisition. Thanks for all the help from the program, release,
legal, and support/enablement teams. This was truly a team effort!
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