It’s always a pleasure to finish the year on a positive note, right? Like many of you, I usually schedule an exam session a few days before the new year, and this year was no exception. I took on December 30th, the VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 Architect exam and successfully passed.
I must admit, my intention wasn’t primarily to succeed but rather to test my skills on this first VCF Architect exam. Additionally, like all Broadcom employees, I was entitled to a couple of vouchers that were set to expire at the end of the year, so I felt needed to take my chances and give it a try.
To my great surprise, when I clicked on the finish button, I was pleased to see that I had passed the exam. Continue reading →
Hello the VMware community. VMware has released yesterday a small but important update to vRA 8.
So what’s new?
Well, in the very first release of vRA 8, it wasn’t possible yet to migrate from vRA 7.x , due to the major changes in the architecture. it was just a matter of time before VMware brings up the functionality.
But from now on, you can migrate your existing vRA 7.5 or 7.6 environnent to 8.0.1. VMware also says that a migration is possible by creating a brand new vRA 8 platform and then migrate all the configuration from an existing vRA 7.x environment.
I can imagine that a lot of people was waiting for this feature which is quite important and especially when it comes to a major release of a product. So guys let’s go to our homelabs or test environment and do some migrations.
VMware also developed a new migration assessment tool to collect “offline” data from your vRA, vRO or external vRO source environment. Then you can upload the collected data during the assessment phase of your new installation.
The new features below are part of vRA 8.0.1 as well:
Git Integrations
Blueprint Properties Editor
API enhancements for Networking and Deployments
Extensibility VA and ABX resiliency enhancements
vRO based catalog services now support array/number as inputs parameters
