<div dir="ltr"><p>The main reasons to upgrade to this release are as follows:  </p>
<p>Manage virtual endpoints operations on Cloud Provider.</p>
<ol>
<li>AWS
<ol>
<li>731 Amazon Web Services discovered resources start</li>
<li>733 Amazon Web Services discovered resources stop</li>
<li>735 Amazon Web Services discovered resources restart</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>GCP
<ol>
<li>736 Google Cloud Platform discovered resources start</li>
<li>737 Google Cloud Platform discovered resources stop</li>
<li>738 Google Cloud Platform discovered resources restart</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Azure
<ol>
<li>739 Microsoft Azure discovered resources start</li>
<li>740 Microsoft Azure discovered resources stop</li>
<li>741 Microsoft Azure discovered resources restart</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Additional information about this release</strong></p>
<p>*Published site and components version:<br>Virtual Endpoint Manager - Site Version: 73</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Deprecation announcement for the management extender:</strong></p>
<p>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:<br> <br><a class="external-link" href="https://forum.bigfix.com/t/content-in-the-virtual-endpoint-manager-site-has-been-published-2024-04-03/48223" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://forum.bigfix.com/t/content-in-the-virtual-endpoint-manager-site-has-been-published-2024-04-03/48223</a></p>
<p>This makes the VMWare Management Extender no longer required.<br>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.<br>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.<br>This component will no longer be supported after June 30th, 2025 <br>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.<br>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+.<br>For upgrading your environment and leveraging the VMWare plugin, please refer to:<br><a class="external-link" href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_ESXi/c_migration_to_vmwareplugin.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_ESXi/c_migration_to_vmwareplugin.html</a><br> <br>For more information on the VMWare Plugin, please refer to:<br><a class="external-link" href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_cloudintroduction.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/platform/Platform/Config/c_cloudintroduction.html</a><br> <br><strong>Useful links</strong></p>
<p>*BigFix SA Virtualization Documentation:<br><a class="external-link" href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/lifecycle/Lifecycle/ServerAutomation/SAUsersGuide/Server_Automation_virtualization/sa_c_vmware.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/lifecycle/Lifecycle/ServerAutomation/SAUsersGuide/Server_Automation_virtualization/sa_c_vmware.html</a><br><a class="external-link" href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/lifecycle/Lifecycle/ServerAutomation/SAUsersGuide/Server_Automation_virtualization/sa_c_vmware.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/lifecycle/Lifecycle/ServerAutomation/SAUsersGuide/Server_Automation_virtualization/sa_c_vmware.html</a></p>
<p>PatchesForESXI<br><a class="external-link" href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_ESXi/c_introduction.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_ESXi/c_introduction.html</a><br><a class="external-link" href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/patch/Patch/Patch_ESXi/c_introduction.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/patch/Patch/Patch_ESXi/c_introduction.html</a></p>
<p>Virtual Endpoint Management<br><a class="external-link" href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_VirtualEM.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_VirtualEM.html</a><br><a class="external-link" href="https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/patch/Patch/Patch_VirtualEM.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/patch/Patch/Patch_VirtualEM.html</a></p>
<p><a class="external-link" href="https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_Virtual_Endpoint_Man/c_offline_patching_workflow.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://help.hcl-software.com/bigfix/11.0/patch/Patch/Patch_Virtual_Endpoint_Man/c_offline_patching_workflow.html</a></p>
<p>– HCL BigFix – Lifecycle Team</p></div>