vRealize Automation 8 includes these approval policy considerations.

Approval policies in vRealize Automation 8 do not support:

  • Post Levels
  • Multi Levels
  • Nested Criteria
  • AP integration with Event Subscriptions
  • Approver determination based on Requests
  • Approver Groups
  • Approvals by Email

You can only use cost, requestedBy, cpucount, and memory criteria fields in your vRealize Automation 8 approval policies.

When migrating your vRealize Automation 7 approval policies to vRealize Automation 8, they are migrated as either Catalog Requests or Day 2 Action Request types.
Table 1. Catalog Request
vRealize Automation 7 Catalog Request Type vRealize Automation 8 Type
Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request Deployment.Create
Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - Virtual Machine Deployment.Create

(resourceType = Cloud.vSphere.Machine)
Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - Cloud Machine

Deployment.Create

(resourceType = Cloud.AWS.EC2.Instance)
Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - Existing Network

Deployment.Create

(resourceType = Cloud.vSphere.Network)
Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - NSX-T On-Demand Load Balancer

Deployment.Create

(resourceType = Cloud.NSX.LoadBalancer)
Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - NSX-T Existing NS Group

Deployment.Create

(resourceType = Cloud.SecurityGroup)
Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - NSX-T On-Demand Nat Network

Deployment.Create

(resourceType = Cloud.NSX.Network)
Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - NSX-T On-Demand Routed Network

Deployment.Create

(resourceType = Cloud.NSX.Network)
Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - Existing Security Group

Deployment.Create

(resourceType = Cloud.SecurityGroup)
Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - On-Demand Routed Network

Deployment.Create

(resourceType = Cloud.NSX.Network)
Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - On-Demand Private Network

Deployment.Create

(resourceType = Cloud.NSX.Network)
Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - On-Demand Load Balancer

Deployment.Create

(resourceType = Cloud.NSX.Network)
Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - On-Demand NAT Network

Deployment.Create

(resourceType = Cloud.NSX.Network)

Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - Puppet

Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - XaaS Blueprint

Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - Software Component

Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - Ansible

Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - Composite Blueprint

Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - Existing Security Tag

Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - Container

Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - Container Network

Service Catalog - Catalog Item Request - Container Volume

 Not Supported
Table 2. Day 2 Action Requests
vRealize Automation 7 Action Type vRealize Automation 8 Action Type
Resource Action Request - Change Lease - Deployment Deployment.ChangeLease
Resource Action Request - Change Security - Deployment Cloud.vSphere.Machine.Change.SecurityGroup
Resource Action Request - Create Snapshot - Virtual Machine Cloud.vSphere.Machine.Snapshot.Create
Resource Action Request - Revert To Snapshot - Virtual Machine Cloud.vSphere.Machine.Snapshot.Revert
Resource Action Request - Delete Snapshot - Virtual Machine Cloud.vSphere.Machine.Snapshot.Delete
Resource Action Request - Delete - Azure Virtual Machine Cloud.Azure.Machine.Delete
Resource Action Request - Destroy - Cloud Machine Cloud.AWS.EC2.Instance.Delete
Resource Action Request - Destroy - Deployment Deployment.Delete
Resource Action Request - Destroy - Virtual Machine Cloud.vSphere.Machine.Delete
Resource Action Request - Power Off - Machine

Cloud.vSphere.Machine.PowerOff

Cloud.AWS.EC2.Instance.PowerOff
Resource Action Request - Power On - Machine

Cloud.vSphere.Machine.PowerOn

Cloud.AWS.EC2.Instance.PowerOff
Resource Action Request - Reboot - Machine

Cloud.AWS.EC2.Instance.Reboot

Cloud.vSphere.Machine.Reboot
Resource Action Request - Reconfigure - VMware NSX Load Balancer Cloud.NSX.LoadBalancer.LoadBalancer.Reconfigure
Resource Action Request - Reprovision - Machine

Cloud.AWS.EC2.Instance.Reprovision

Cloud.vSphere.Machine.Reprovision
Resource Action Request - Restart - Azure Virtual Machine Cloud.Azure.Machine.Restart
Resource Action Request - Shutdown - Machine Cloud.vSphere.Machine.Shutdown
Resource Action Request - Start - Azure Virtual Machine Cloud.Azure.Machine.PowerOn
Resource Action Request - Stop - Azure Virtual Machine Cloud.Azure.Machine.PowerOff
Resource Action Request - Suspend - Machine Cloud.vSphere.Machine.Suspend

Resource Action Request - Change Lease - Machine

Resource Action Request - Cancel Reconfigure - Machine

Service Catalog - Resource Action Request

Resource Action Request - Change NAT Rules - VMware NSX Network

Resource Action Request - Change NAT Rules - VMware NSX-T Network

Resource Action Request - Change Owner - Deployment

Resource Action Request - Destroy - Container

Resource Action Request - Destroy - Container Network

Resource Action Request - Destroy Volume - Container Volume

Resource Action Request - Execute Reconfigure - Machine

Resource Action Request - Expire - Deployment

Resource Action Request - Expire - Machine

Resource Action Request - Install Tools - Machine

Resource Action Request - Manage Public IP Address - Azure Virtual Machine

Resource Action Request - Power Cycle - Machine

Resource Action Request - Reconfigure - Machine

Resource Action Request - Register VDI - Virtual Machine

Resource Action Request - Remove from Catalog - Azure Virtual Machine

Resource Action Request - Resume - Deployment

Resource Action Request - Scale In - Deployment

Resource Action Request - Scale Out - Deployment

Resource Action Request - Start - Container

Resource Action Request - Stop - Container

Resource Action Request - Unregister - Machine

Resource Action Request - Unregister VDI - Virtual Machine

Resource Action Request - Unregister - VMware NSX Network

Resource Action Request - Unregister - VMware NSX-T Network

 Not Supported