#VMworld US 2016: New Products and Product Updates

During (and around) VMworld 2016 VMware has lifted many of their products to a new level to enable their customer a better and more agile software-defined datacenter than ever (wow, that sounded a lot like a marketing term. Therefore, back to facts).

The following post summarize the products and some of its enhancements that have been announced or even released so far.

During day 1 of VMworld the .next version of vSphere hasn’t been released. Once this is done the article gets extended. I am still hoping for any new here.

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Password change of the vRealize Automation service account for the vCenter

If you ever feel the need to change the service user account of the vRealize automation user (the account that has a dedicated user/role at the vCenter configured), make sure to do the following afterwards.

It’s not sufficient to change the credentials of the vCenter user in the endpoint section of vRA.

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Remember that our vRealize Orchestrator and the IaaS componets needs to connect to the vCenter as well. If you miss the following steps your next requests will fail:

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