[BESAdmin-Announcements] The BigFix Team is pleased to announce a new release of BigFix Virtual Endpoint Manager.

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

The main reasons to upgrade to this release are as follows:

Manage virtual endpoints operations on Cloud Provider.

   1. AWS
      1. 731 Amazon Web Services discovered resources start
      2. 733 Amazon Web Services discovered resources stop
      3. 735 Amazon Web Services discovered resources restart
   2. GCP
      1. 736 Google Cloud Platform discovered resources start
      2. 737 Google Cloud Platform discovered resources stop
      3. 738 Google Cloud Platform discovered resources restart
   3. Azure
      1. 739 Microsoft Azure discovered resources start
      2. 740 Microsoft Azure discovered resources stop
      3. 741 Microsoft Azure discovered resources restart

*Additional information about this release*

*Published site and components version:
Virtual Endpoint Manager - Site Version: 73



*Deprecation announcement for the management extender:*

As you know, with recent Virtual Endpoint Manager and Patches for ESXi
releases, it is now possible to exercise the related use cases leveraging
the VMWare Plugin delivered with BigFix MultiCloud feature:

https://forum.bigfix.com/t/content-in-the-virtual-endpoint-manager-site-has-been-published-2024-04-03/48223

This makes the VMWare Management Extender no longer required.
The VMWare Plugin has several advantages with respect to the Extender,
including better performance, higher scalability, and correlation of
discovered VMs with related BigFix agents.
Because of this, we are now announcing the deprecation of the VMWare
Management Extender that is delivered in the Virtual Endpoint Manager and
Patches for ESXi sites.
This component will no longer be supported after June 30th, 2025
The content (fixlets and dashboard to manage the Extender) available in the
mentioned sites will be marked as deprecated, and will be removed after the
end of support date.
Please note that for leveraging the VMWare plugin with Virtual Endpoint
Manager and Patches for ESXi you need to be at BigFIx Platform version
10.0.12+ or 11.0.2+.
For upgrading your environment and leveraging the VMWare plugin, please
refer to:
https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_ESXi/c_migration_to_vmwareplugin.html

For more information on the VMWare Plugin, please refer to:
https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_cloudintroduction.html

*Useful links*

*BigFix SA Virtualization Documentation:
https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/lifecycle/Lifecycle/ServerAutomation/SAUsersGuide/Server_Automation_virtualization/sa_c_vmware.html
https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/lifecycle/Lifecycle/ServerAutomation/SAUsersGuide/Server_Automation_virtualization/sa_c_vmware.html

PatchesForESXI
https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_ESXi/c_introduction.html
https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/patch/Patch/Patch_ESXi/c_introduction.html

Virtual Endpoint Management
https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_VirtualEM.html
https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/patch/Patch/Patch_VirtualEM.html

https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_Virtual_Endpoint_Man/c_offline_patching_workflow.html

– HCL BigFix – Lifecycle Team
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