Today VMware vRealize Business for Cloud version 7.2 was released. Documentation can be found here.
The new notable features are:
- Enhanced support with AWS via
- AWS Cloudwatch API integration
- Visibility into all AWS regions and services
- Ability to recognise new services
- Additional Product Enhancements
- Out-of-the-box support for network pricing
- Support for additional currencies (Currently 130 currencies are supported)
- Support pricing for Fault Tolerance (FT) enabled Virtual Machines
- Enhanced Reporting
- Time-based granular reporting
- Reconciliation via VM usage report
- Reconciliation report for VM uptime usage
- Daily Price Report
- Cloud Business Analysis Report (VMware Optimisation Assessment Report)
- Support for vSphere 6.5
- Disaster Recovery with Site Recovery Manager
The upgrade to VMware vRealize Business for Cloud 7.2 is very easy
- Log in to the web console at https://vRealize_Business_for_Cloud_IP_address:5480
- Unregister vRealize Business for Cloud with vRealize Automation
- Go to “Update” tab and click on “Check updates”
- Click on “Install updates”
- Wait for the update to happen (in my case it took +/- 10 minutes)
- If necessary change the hardware configuration of the virtual appliance to 8 GB RAM and 4 vCPUs.
- Reboot the VMware vRealize Business for Cloud appliance
- Log in to the web console at https://vRealize_Business_for_Cloud_IP_address:5480
- Reregister vRealize Business for Cloud with vRealize Automation