[BESAdmin-Announcements] Content in the Virtual Endpoint Manager site has been modified 2025-11-18

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

The BigFix Team is pleased to announce a new release of BigFix Virtual
Endpoint Manager.

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

   -

   Soft deprecation of the Management Extender installation. (Installation
   fixlet #801 is permanently disabled).
   -

   Enable deallocate Azure instances in Virtual Endpoint Manager site, New
   fixlet ,#742 Microsoft Azure discovered resources deallocate

Defect Articles Remediated:

   -

   KB0123675 : BigFix Server Automation: VEM Operation (Restart - soft)
   failing on correlated devices
   -

   KB0115908 : Patches for ESXi site not evaluating with vmware plugin

Additional information about this release

*Published site and components version:
Virtual Endpoint Manager - Site Version: 74

Soft 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 installation will no longer be supported after Nov 20th, 2025
The installation fixlet will made disabled permanently, and rest of the
related components will be removed after the end of support date next year.
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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