DRYiCE MyCloud v10.7

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RELEASE DETAILS

Product Name DRYiCE MyCloud
Version Number 10.7
Release Month August , 2023
Release Summary
Overview

DRYiCE MyCloud is a proactive hybrid cloud management product that empowers organizations to govern, provision, monitor optimally, and manage cloud infrastructure. It combines data exploration and visualization in an easy-to-use application that enables effective analysis and generates actionable insights for IaaS & PaaS resources. DRYiCE MyCloud's data-driven recommendations and advisories ensure continuous optimization of enterprise cloud environments across areas, including cost, performance, security, and fault tolerance.

Release 10.7 focuses on various new features, enhancements, bug fixes, and integrations.

New Features and Enhancements
  • New Features
    • Introduced a new License report displaying CI consumption, quota, and license details. 1
    • Introduced Forgot Password for form-based login. 2
    • Multi-Hypervisor Provisioning for Private Cloud
      • Added a new endpoint for provisioning resources across multiple vCenter instances in a single request. 3
      • Cisco Intersight Integration Phase II
        • ACI, NETAPP, File Storage & Block storage Integration.
        • Added Management role to support TENANT onboarding use case. 4
        • Enabled the export/import of multiple tables as a zip file.
        • Service Catalog Import/Export with Associated Dependencies.
          • Allowed exporting/importing service catalogs as zip files along with dependent objects (Template, Catalog, UI Template, Process template, ITSM configuration, Approval template). 5

             

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        • Service Catalog Copy Functionality Across Other Endpoints.
        • Functionality to Import/Export Day 2 Action for published catalogs.
        • Enabling the Blueprint API to initiate/re-run blueprint provisioning through API requests.
        • Addition of New TF resource to execute TF file stored on GIT repository. 7
        • The Service Request form now includes a newly integrated capability for uploading documents. 8
        • Revamped MyBill report. 9
        • Security enhancement to support AES-GCM encryption algorithm (CVE-2023-23346 | KB0106670).
  • ORCHESTRATOR Enhancements
    • Improved VMware clone task with the ability to map output parameters such as IP address and storage.
    • Added Out-of-Box tasks for Provider creation, Provider user creation, and Organization creation.
    • Enhanced vCenter Clone task to receive IPv6 Information in addition to other network details.
  • Billing Enhancements
    • Revamped My Bill report UI to display service catalog-wise billing data with advanced filtering and drill-down options.
    • Billing calculation now includes imported machines.
  • UI/UX Enhancements
    • Enhanced dynamic UI to define costing parameters like CPU, Memory, Size, Service plan, etc., enabling automatic cost calculation without writing custom logic.
    • Introduced a new JS method for cost calculation, by providing a JSON input for cost parameters and returning applicable costs.
    • Revamped UI for organization resource allocation to support object/endpoint-wise resource allocation.
    • Added additional filters in custom table to search tables by tables names and table data by column names/value.
    • Admins can now view and edit all component URLs, and changes will be applicable as default for new providers.
  • Component and API Enhancements
    • Enhanced existing APIs to retrieve user details including roles, AD groups, and RBAC groups.
    • Addition of new APIs for expected cost calculations & Provider management.
    • Addition of new API to fetch software endpoint details.
  • Other Enhancements
    • Enhanced generic endpoint to support Cisco Intersight and other platforms.
    • Added notification emails for schedule script failures.
    • Introduced a new Report Configuration screen to customize columns and sequencing for out-of-the-box reports like MyBill and Finance.
    • Performance improvement and custom paging added to the Finance report.
    • Organization & service catalogs-wise configuration to enable/disable request copy functionality.
    • Branding changes: Updated URL and company name for displaying the latest website information.
    • Enhanced UI template for list binding in select control and applying filters in list DataSource using selected values from other controls.
    • Improved cost calculation to handle float values of memory for SCVMM.
    • Added new global variables for "providerentityid" and "providername" in the UI, along with a new SQL function in the process workflow to return provider entityID.
    • Improved AD Sync job performance for bulk data insertion.
    • Modified the import object screen to capture service catalog information during imports.
  • Blueprint Resource Onboarding:

    Onboarding of new resources in blueprint library.:

    • AWS VPC Flow Log
    • AWS VPC Endpoint
    • AWS RouteTable and Association
    • AWS IAM Policy
    • RBAC
    • RDS
    • AWS EKS
    • AWS Inspector
    • AWS EC2 ImageBuilder
    • Azure Vnet peering
    • Azure Network watche
    • Azure Log analytics workspace
    • Azure RBAC with role assignment
    • Azure Application gateway
    • Azure key vault (vm disk encryption)
    • Azure Backup vault
    • Azure Shared image gallery
    • Azure AKS
    • Azure DNS
    • Azure Route table & Association
    • Azure Resource policy def & Assignment
    • Azure ASG
A Glimpse of Upcoming Release
  • Integration with OpenShift

  • Azure Vault Integration

  • VMware on AWS (VMC) Integration

  • Centralized Service Catalogue Library.

  • Cloud-Agnostic endpoint-based provisioning

  • New Workflow Designer

Support

For product-related inquiries, please reach us at dryice-pmg-autonomic@hcl.com