Merry Christmas! Santa Arrived early this year with the greatest gift of all!
vCAC 6.0 is a game-changing release that enables IT to deliver infrastructure, applications, desktops and virtually any kind of IT service in a simple yet highly configurable and rich self-service experience. It is also a significant step in converging the original vCAC and Application Director products.
This new release contains a wealth of new capabilities to help IT departments become brokers of services and accelerate their customers’ journey to IT as a Service. Some of the major new vCAC 6.0 features include:
– A single catalog for publishing and requesting infrastructure, application, desktop and custom IT services
– A more powerful and flexible approval policy engine that governs all types of services
– Enhancements to Application Deployment and Updates (formerly “Application Director”), including:
– Application rollbacks of unsuccessful updates
– Connecting to existing services such as a load balancers
– Scale-in of clustered applications
– Integration with Puppet
– The new Advanced Service Designer, which lets service architects creates new services (storage as a service, backup as a service, etc.) from vCO workflows in a matter of minutes
– Integration with IT Business Management Standard Edition, for visibility into the cost and usage of on-premise virtual infrastructure and public cloud infrastructure, including benchmarking capabilities
– Many improvements to Infrastructure as a Service, including:
– Support for VMware vCloud Hybrid Services (vCHS)
– Support for OpenStack
– Dynamic creation of networks and load balancers via integrations with vCNS and NSX
– vSphere machine access via the VMware Remote Console (VMRC)
– Support for vSAN as a datastore
– Better interoperability with SRM
– New multi-tenany capabilities, including the ability to connect to LDAP-based directory services
– New, more secure, and simpler verb-oriented REST APIs (BETA feature)
– For more details and a full list of new features, please check the Release Notes:
https://www.vmware.com/support/vcac/doc/vcloud-automation-center-60-release-notes.html
https://www.vmware.com/support/appdirector/doc/releasenotes_appdirector60.html