Everpure Plugin for VCF Automation Orchestrator 8 Release Notes

Release Timeline

Version 4.1.0

What's New

Resolved Issues

Version 4.0.1

Support

• vRealize Orchestrator 8.2+ is supported
• FA Purity 5.3.x and later
• FB Purity 3.2.x and later
• vVol workflows require vCenter 6.5 and later and Purity 5.3.6 and later

What's New

• Nothing new in this release.
• Support for vRO 8.6-12

Resolved Issues

• FlashArray registration failed when Pure1 authentication was not completed. The requirement for Pure1 authentication has been removed and is now an optional feature.

Workflow Changes

• No changes to workflows in this release.

Known Problems

• No support for FlashArray REST 2.x

Version 4.0.0

Support

• vRealize Orchestrator 8.1+ is supported, 8.1 Patch 1 and later is recommended
• FA Purity 4.10.x and later
• FB Purity 3.0.x and later
• vVol workflows require vCenter 6.5 and later and Purity 5.3.6 and later

What's New

• Support for vRO 8.x
• Integrated Pure1 authentication
• Pure1 workflows for authentication, tagging, provisioning, and array registration
• vVol workflows are now integrated into the plugin
• Volume group objects are integrated into plugin
• FlashBlades can now be authenticated into the plugin
• QoS configuration added to workflows for volumes and volume groups.

Resolved Issues

• Volume membership of protection group fails when a volume is in a destroyed protection group
• Improved handling of vVol workflows
• Pure1 registration now places array in correct Pure1 organizations
• FlashArray connection update updates the connection into the correct Pure1 organization
• Provisioning skips hosts in maintenance mode

Workflow Changes

While we endeavor to not remove or rename workflows occasionally changes are made.

• Removed workflows compared to 3.5.0:
  • Run REST API (replaced with per-array family workflow)
  • Register FlashArrays from Pure1 -> Register Arrays from Pure1
  • Remove Datastore From FlashArray Protection Group (replaced with Modify Protection Group)
• Renamed workflows compared to 3.5.0:
  • Create VMFS Datastore on new FlashArray Volume. -> Create VMFS Datastore on new FlashArray Volume
  • Delete a Pure1 Tag on Multiple FlashArrays -> Delete a Pure1 Tag on Multiple FlashArray
  • Import FlashBlade certificate from URL -> Import a FlashBlade certificate from URL
  • Create multiple VMFS datastores on new FlashArray volumes -> Create multiple VMFS datastores on new FlashArray volume
• Removed workflows compared to 3.0.0:
  • Get FlashArray Connection (underlying action still exists)
  • Get All FlashArray Connections (underlying action still exists)
  • Add Remote FlashArray Connection (underlying action still exists)
• Renamed workflows compared to 3.0.0:
  • Modify Volume QoS Throughput Limit -> Set Bandwidth Limit on Volume/Set IOPS Limit on Volume/Modify Volume QoS
  • Modify Datastore QoS Throughput Limit -> Modify Datastore QoS

Known Problems

• No support for FlashArray REST 2.x