Foglight Resource Optimizer 5.6.16 Release Notes
Dell Foglight™ Resource Optimizer 5.6.16
Developed for Foglight Management Server 5.7.5
Release Notes
October 2015
Contents
Welcome to Foglight Resource Optimizer
New in this Release
Resolved Issues and Enhancements
Known Issues
Third Party Known Issues
Upgrade and Compatibility
System Requirements
Product Licensing
Getting Started with Foglight Resource Optimizer
About Dell
Welcome to Foglight Resource Optimizer
Virtual machines (VMs) are quickly becoming the industry standard in IT infrastructures. IT managers find themselves with hundreds, if not thousands of VMs or physical machine hosts in their infrastructures. VMs can be added quickly, making it necessary to plan for the addition of virtual machines to the physical machines that host them. This can be a challenge for administrators. IT managers lack the required tools to accurately optimize CPU, memory, and network consumption, or project storage requirements. Monitoring virtual machine environments with Foglight™ Resource Optimizer simplifies the optimization process, providing waste-finding and right-sizing functionality for virtualized environments.
These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the 5.6.16 release of the Foglight Resource Optimizer. Review all sections before starting the installation.
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New in this Release
This release contains the following updates:
- Product name was changed from "Foglight for Resource Optimization" to "Foglight Resource Optimizer".
- Constraints groups. Added the ability to set custom thresholds for select objects in the environment. These recommendations are displayed in the Optimizer tab > VM Configuration/ CPU/ Memory/ Storage views > Modify Recommendation column. [VFOG-6846, VFOG-8760, VFOG-7051]
Note: A virtual machine may have several partitions. Foglight Resource Optimizer makes recommendations for each partition separately, but the custom constraints can be set only for the entire VM (not for individual partitions). Therefore, the custom constraint for storage are applied to all partitions on the selected VM. [VFOG-10650]
- Configuration menu. Added the ability to search for VMs with duplicate UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifiers) and provide recommendations for remediation. [VFOG-8554]
Note: In order to change a duplicate UUID, users must have the following privileges: [VFOG-10653]
- Scheduled task > Create tasks
- Scheduled task > Remove task
- Scheduled task > Run task
- Virtual Machines > Configuration > Settings
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