VMware have announced the following enhancements to the vRealize Suite (vROps, vRBC, vRLI) and vRealize Network Insight.

vRealize Operations 6.6

Ease of Use and Quick Time to Value:

Simplified Usability – New HTML5 UI has easier and consistent experience

Quicker Navigation – New “Getting Started” dashboard points you to the right place

Accelerated Remediation – Persona-based dashboards provide the answers in one place – Operations, Troubleshooting, Cloud Capacity, Compliance and Config

Quicker TTV – OOTB integrations – Storage (vSAN), Logs (vRLI), Business (vRBC) and Automation (vRA)

Native vSAN Management:

Fast time to value for hyper-converged environments

Complete VSAN management Performance Capacity Logs Configuration and Health

Centralized management across stretched clusters

Confirm vSAN readiness from a single console

Deploy vSAN with confidence with complete visibility

Operationalize vSAN with performance and capacity monitoring

Fully Automated Workload Balancing:

Ensure performance across the datacenters with fully automated workload balancing Across clusters Across data stores (w/ storage vMotion) Easily automatable Schedulable at a convenient maintenance window

Ensure DRS Configurations – View and set DRS settings to drive better balance

Avoid contention – Predictive DRS takes action before the contention occurs

Proper Initial Placement – Utilize Operations analytics to optimize placement of workloads through vRA

OOTB Compliance Capabilities:

Tackle compliance problems What is out of compliance? New vSphere hardening dashboard

Hardening across all SDDC components – vSAN, NSX, vCenter

Extend Compliance – PCI & HIPAA compliance for vSphere

Ensure business configurations – New cluster, host and VM configuration dashboards

vRealize Business for Cloud 7.3 (STD edition)

Cost Management keeps getting easier:

Ops and Business in one place

Enhanced pricing capabilities

More OOTB reports

Procurement planning

Optimize Public Clouds Spending with more visibility:

Cost Visibility: Costing analysis for all services on AWS and Azure

Usage Visibility: VM level usage visibility into public clouds

vRealize Log Insight 4.5

Full 360-Degree Log Integration with vRealize

Options:

Full Integration in-context within vRealize

Operations Direct launch into Log insight Dashboard Direct launch into Log Insight Interactive Analytics mode Object auto-initiated log management vROps Alerts auto-initiated log management

Operations New Server Capabilities Updated Log Insight RESTful API’s Comprehensive Single Sign-On Support

Improved Agent Capabilities Agent multi-destination



vRealize Network Insight 3.4

Manage Cross-Cloud Security:

Micro-segmentation planning by AWS VPC, Security Groups and Tags.

Add AWS EC2 VMs to user defined applications for micro-segmentation planning

Visibility for AWS VPCs, EC2 VMs, flows and AWS Security Groups

Troubleshoot traffic in AWS to triage denied traffic between or within VPCs and AWS tags

Troubleshoot across virtual and physical infrastructure:

Path between VMs with underlying Layer 2 network visibility

Support for vCenter tags enables fast filtering of VMs for addition to security and application groups

Enhanced traffic and security analytics including physical servers

Day 2 event reporting on NSX issues

Customize for maximum deployment flexibility:

vRealize Network Insight generated events can be exported as syslog messages for close integration with log management products such as vRealize Log Insight

Customization of alerts by object and alert types, as global settings

Configuration features for modifying data retention periods

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