Azure Subscription Linking
Azure Subscription linking is the first step towards bringing full contextual relevance to the Rimo3 Cloud platform. This capability creates key resources, such as the Gateway and Task Runners previously hosted by Rimo3, within an enterprise’s Microsoft Azure Subscription enabling connectivity to backend dependencies such as databases and license servers. This increases the scope of applications suitable for analysis by the platform.
Customer tenant linking also paves the way for the upcoming Custom Images feature, to complete the full contextual relevance testing story, as well as Import from Endpoint Configuration Manager, to improve the application onboarding experience and mitigate several restrictions imposed by the package upload.
On-Demand Task Runner Provisioning & Deprovisioning
The new provisioning and de-provisioning feature in Rimo3 Cloud creates Task Runners on-demand, inside linked Azure subscriptions, when they are needed and removes them once testing has been completed. This helps ensure that resource costs are kept to a minimum. The feature also allows multiple resources to be created in parallel, significantly reducing analysis times, making testing up to 3 times faster with no increase in cost.
Rimo3 Task Runners are created on-demand from the Microsoft Azure Marketplace in a matter of minutes when a test is started. They are kept for the duration of the test before being de-provisioned when no longer needed.
The on-demand provisioning of test resources is also the precursor for a new onboarding and test execution experience, coming in a future release, that will allow testing to be carried out on multiple OS combinations to reflect whatever or migration scenario you need to test.
Support for Windows 11
Starting with this Rimo3 Quincy release, Windows 11 will be available as an OS to select for testing using the recently added Azure Marketplace images. Both Windows 11 21H2 single and multi-session releases will be available. This helps enterprise customers prepare and plan for Windows 11 migrations.
Please note that this is in preview testing only and Windows 11 is not yet fully supported. There are known issues with video capture. Please reach out to technicalsupport@rimo3.com with feedback on the new Windows 11 preview testing.
In addition to Windows 11, the switch to marketplace images for provisioning Task Runners means that Windows Server 2022 is now also available to select as part of the Mange and Migration Suitability workflows. However, Windows 10 1903 and older are no longer available to select for any workflow as they are not available in the marketplace. Customers still using releases of Windows that are no longer available in the marketplace will be able to onboard them as part of the upcoming Custom Images capability.
