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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





