VMware Aria Automation 8.16.2 Released
VMware Has released Aria Automation 8.16.2, Aria Automation Orchestrator 8.16.2 and Aria Automation Config 8.16.2.
Aria Automation 8.16.2/Aria Automation Config 8.16.2
What’s new:
- A new “Change Display Name” day 2 action is introduced to the “Disk” resource
- Starting from this release, users can apply custom display names to disk resources in the form of day 2 actions. This can help users easily distinguish disk resources when they have too many disks attached to templates.
- Customize CPU per socket allocation in vCenter flavor mappings
- Users currently have the ability to set the CPU per socket allocation for vSphere virtual machines in the template YAML code using the coreCount property. Now, socket allocation can also be configured in flavor mappings to easily reuse this setting across multiple templates that use the same flavor mapping.
- Catalog Setup Wizard for the Private AI Automation Services
- Private AI Automation Services is a collection of features that enable cloud administrators to quickly design, curate, and offer optimized AI infrastructure catalog objects through the VMware Aria Automation self-service Service Broker portal. The Catalog Setup Wizard is a new capability in this release, which assists cloud administrators in publishing the following catalog items with ease:
- AI Workstation – A GPU-enabled deep learning VM which can be configured with desired vCPU, vGPU, memory, and AI/ML NGC containers from NVIDIA.
- AI Kubernetes Cluster – A GPU-enabled Tanzu Kubernetes cluster which can be automatically configured with the NVIDIA GPU Operator.
- For detailed instructions on using the Catalog Setup Wizard, AI Workstation, and AI Kubernetes Cluster catalog items, go to How do you get started with Private AI Automation Services using the Catalog Setup Wizard.
- Note: The Catalog Setup Wizard is not enabled by default. Contact VMware by Broadcom Professional Services to activate the wizard for your organization.
- Private AI Automation Services is a collection of features that enable cloud administrators to quickly design, curate, and offer optimized AI infrastructure catalog objects through the VMware Aria Automation self-service Service Broker portal. The Catalog Setup Wizard is a new capability in this release, which assists cloud administrators in publishing the following catalog items with ease:
- Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI) General Availability for VMware Aria Automation on-prem
- CCI became available for VMware Aria Automation SaaS in October 2023. As part of the 8.16.2 release, the same capabilities are now available in VMware Aria Automation on-prem. CCI in VMware Aria Automation on-prem offers the same benefits as the SaaS offering without requiring any cloud connectivity, including having vCenter connected to vSphere+ cloud service. For more information, go to Configuring and working with the Cloud Consumption Interface.
See the full Release notes here.
Aria Automation Orchestrator 8.16.2
What’s new:
- Added support for new Node.js version
- The Node,js runtime now uses version 20. Node.js 18 is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
- Added support for new PowerShell and PowerCLI verions
- The PowerCLI and PowerShell environments are now using the latest PowerShell 7.4 (LTS) version. PowerCLI now uses version 13. PowerCLI 12 is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
See the full Release notes here.