During VMworld in October this year, VMware announced version 6.0 of its automated virtual machine and physical server provisioning tool vCloud Automation Center (vCAC). It provides end-users with an Self-Service catalog in which they can request infrastructure components.
Today VMware released version 6.0, providing the following new functionality:
- Ability for end users to request application services and monitor their deployment status
- This functionality comes from Application Director
- Improved approval policy engine
- End users can roll back system updates
- External Services connection options
- Policy based provisioning
- New Advanced Service Designer allowing the design of user forms and provisioning workflows
- Integration with IT Business Management Standard Edition
- Support for VMware vCloud Hybrid Service, provision and perform basic administrative tasks on virtual machines deployed in vCloud Hybrid Services
- Support for OpenStack (In addition to vSphere, vCloud Director, Amazon Web Services, Hyper-V, Kernel-based Virtual Machine, Citrix XenServer, and various physical server management interfaces)
- Access vSphere machines via Remote Console
- Support for the dynamic creation of isolated and routed networks and load balancers.
- Support for vSAN as a datastore
- Support for reuse of Puppet content to build application blueprints in Application Director
- Support for Storage DRS
- Support for LDAP services
- Multi-tenancy improvements
- Verb-oriented RESTFUL APIs in BETA
Thanks to Marcel van den Berg for providing the news