Foglight Cloud Manager 1.9.0 Release Notes

Foglight^® Hybrid Cloud Manager 1.9.0

Developed for Foglight Management Server 5.9.8/ Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3/ Foglight Evolve 9.3

Release Notes

December 2020

Contents

Contents

Welcome to Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager

New in this release

Resolved issues and enhancements

Known issues

Upgrade and compatibility

System requirements

Product licensing

Getting started with Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager

About Us

Welcome to Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager

Welcome to Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager

Foglight® Hybrid Cloud Manager is provided to meet the demand for monitoring the hybrid strategy, protecting the business, reducing tasks for users who want to monitor Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) assets. Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager offers the ability to enable IaaS monitoring across Foglight performance agents and to consolidate performance troubleshooting into a single platform, without the manual configuration and hazards of missing elastic or burst workload changes. Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager simplifies the cloud performance monitoring process, allowing users to see VMware, Hyper-V, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud inside of a single platform. By the means of unified workflows, pre-configured rules with notifications, and intelligent analytics, Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager unscrambles complex troubleshooting and delivers the information that helps user cut down costs. Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager supports Federation mode.

These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the 1.9.0 release of Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager. Review all sections before starting installation. 

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New in this release

New in this release

This 1.9.0 release of Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager accompanies the release of Foglight Evolve 9.3 and Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3. It includes Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Azure and Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for AWS, and introduces Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Google Cloud for the first time. This release includes following new features and improvements:

Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Azure

• Introduced policy based management to schedule actions (start or stop) for Azure VMs. (AZ-264)
• Added settings for Collecting previous day cost. (AZ-604)
• Automated the optimization for Azure. (AZ-650)

Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for AWS

• Automated the optimization for AWS. (AWS-344)
• Introduced policy based management to schedule actions (start or stop) for AWS. (AW-359)

Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Google Cloud

Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Google Cloud helps visually monitor and manage Google Cloud platform. (GC-1)

It supports the following features:

• Monitoring object or a group of objects, such as projects, regions, instances groups, or VM instances, and review the data associated with your selection;
• Managing Google Cloud rules and alarms;
• Creating and managing Google Cloud environment related reports;
• Creating and managing Google Cloud agents;
• Collecting and managing Google Cloud platform costs.

Note: to use Policy Management feature for Azure and AWS and Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Google Cloud, Foglight Evolve Cloud and Flex license are required.

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