Foglight® for Storage Management 6.0.0

Managing Storage in Virtual Environments

Developed for Foglight Management Server 6.0.0 / Foglight Evolve 6.0.0

Release Notes

June 2021


Contents

Welcome to Foglight for Storage Management

New in this release

Resolved issues and enhancements

Deprecated features

Known issues

Third party known issues

Upgrade and compatibility

System requirements

Troubleshooting

Product licensing

Getting started with Foglight for Storage Management

About Us


Welcome to Foglight for Storage Management

Foglight® for Storage Management is a monitoring solution for virtual environments utilizing physical storage to provide metrics and alerts for: performance, capacity, and topology. With Foglight for Storage Management, virtualization administrators can visualize their entire virtual to physical storage environment through detailed architectural representations. Out-of-the-box alerts provide the ability to predict, diagnose, and resolve problems affecting performance, capacity, and availability, while allowing storage administrators to visualize the consumers of storage and impacts to changes. Foglight for Storage Management enables organizations to better manage their underlying physical storage for optimal virtual infrastructure performance, and reduce data gathering time with end-to-end visibility to quickly ascertain root cause.

These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the 6.0.0 release of Foglight for Storage Management. Review all sections before starting the installation.



New in this release

This 6.0.0 release of Foglight for Storage Management accompanies the release of Foglight Evolve 6.0.0. This release does not include any new features or improvements



Resolved issues and enhancements

This 6.0.0 release of Foglight for Storage Management accompanies the release of Foglight Evolve 6.0.0. This release does not include any resolved issues and enhancements.

 

 


Deprecated features

32-bit installers

Support for Foglight for Storage Management on 32-bit platforms has been discontinued since version 4.5.5. You must upgrade to a 64-bit platform before installing or upgrading to FSM 6.0.0. 

 


Known issues

The following is a list of issues known to exist at the time of this release.

Cartridge-related issues

Defect ID

Known Issue

VFGLS-4028

EMC CLI and HDS Tuning Manager upgrade from versions earlier than 4.6.0 could fail to collect data.

VFGLS-3904

Generic SMI-S Array Agent collecting from EMC Unity array may show higher LUN Latency metrics than EMC Unity Unisphere.

VFGLS-3467

Installation failed when install Foglight/FVE/FSM with embedded DB to Windows %PROGRAMFILES% dir.

VFGLS-3438

If both valid and invalid credentials are provided for the system to be monitored, it is possible for the valid credential to not be found or used. The invalid credential should be manually deleted in this case.

VFGLS-3397

NetApp System-api-list calls made to determine what other API calls are available may trigger log messages on the NetApp system regarding access permission on the NetApp console. Foglight for Storage Management does not call these other API methods.

VFGLS-3166

Memory leak when deploying new Python agent build.

VFGLS-3152

NetApp - Used in Monitored Environment value under Summary is incorrect for NASVolumes.

VFGLS-2897

VM to LUN mapping calculations can fail.

VFGLS-2881

SAN topology mapping is inconsistent.

VFGLS-2381

Values for the protection level obtained from Clariion arrays may be different if collected using the command line from those collected using an SMIS connection.

VFGLS-1938

Some NetApp filter instances will display no information for IP and FC ports.

VFGLS-434

FCoE support (Fiber Channel over Ethernet).

Known Limitations

Defect ID

Known Issue

VFGLS-3637

NetApp MetroCluster configuration is not supported due to topology and command query differences between NetApp MetroCluster and Cluster (C-mode) get the inventory and performance metrics.

VFGLS-3608

VFGLS-3452

EMC VNXe as a collection target is not supported.

VFGLS-2603

Hitachi USP: Data and Ops data rates may be shown as zero due to same level of detail is not included in target.



Third-party known issues

The following is a list of third-party issues known to exist at the time of this release.

 

Defect ID

Resolved Issue

VFGLS-2214

NetApp filers can be configured for both SSLv3 and TLS connections. As a result of recent security changes in Java, the agent will no longer, by default, attempt SSLv3 connections when monitoring these systems. If a secure connection is required, it is strongly recommended that TLS be enabled for the filer. See https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1155684/html/GUID-3E07D3F8-6A05-49C0-BF92-9C88BA252E1F.html

To enable SSLv3 connections to the filer, edit the file "jre/lib/security/java.security" from the agent manager hosting the agent monitoring the filer, remove or comment out the line jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=SSLv3, and restart the agent manager.

 


Upgrade and compatibility

Select one of the following upgrade paths: 

If you are using: Supported Upgrade Path

Only Foglight for Storage Management version 4.4.5 or later

Upgrade to Foglight Evolve 6.0.0.

Only Foglight for Storage Management version 4.4, 4.3.5, 4.3, or 4.2 1. Upgrade to Foglight for Storage Management 4.4.5.
2. Upgrade to FVE 8.6.
3. Upgrade to FVE 8.7.
4. Upgrade to FVE 8.8.5.
5. Upgrade to Foglight Evolve 6.0.0.
Only Foglight for Storage Management version 4.1, 4.0, 3.2, 3.1.x or 3.0.x 1. Upgrade to Foglight for Storage Management 4.2.
2. Upgrade to FVE 8.6.
3. Upgrade to FVE 8.7.
4. Upgrade to FVE 8.8.5.
5. Upgrade to Foglight Evolve 6.0.0.
Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition

Upgrade to Foglight Evolve 6.0.0.

 

Note: For a new installation, see Getting started with Foglight for Storage Management.

 

The following Foglight product versions and platforms are compatible with this release.

Product Name

Product Version

Platform

Foglight Management Server

6.0.0

All platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Management Server

Foglight Agent Manager
Note: The monitoring agents available in this version of Foglight for Storage Management support the Agent Manager HA failover mode. For more information about this mode, see the Agent Manager Guide.

6.0.0

All platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Agent Manager

Foglight Evolve

6.0.0

All platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Evolve



System requirements

For information about system requirements for this release, see Foglight for Storage Management User and Reference Guide.

 

Note: Foglight for Storage Management requires a 64-bit Windows® or Linux® Agent Manager.

 


Troubleshooting

This section provides a list of references which address the most commonly faced issues relating to remote connectivity, allowing for easy troubleshooting using the vendor's information knowledgebase:

 


Product licensing

Foglight includes a licensing capability that restricts access to those features that are defined in the license. Any Management Server installation requires a license that grants access to server-specific parts of the browser interface and the features associated with them. Foglight cartridges are also license-protected. While some cartridges are covered by the base Foglight license (such as Foglight Agent Manager cartridges and the Cartridge for Infrastructure), others may require an additional license. Foglight for Storage Management is covered by the Foglight Evolve Monitor, Operate, and Flex license.

 

To activate a trial or a purchased commercial license:

  1. On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click Administration > Setup > Manage Licenses.
  2. Click Install.
  3. In the Install License dialog box, click Browse.
  4. In the file browser that appears, specify the location of the license file.
  5. In the Install License dialog box, click Install License.

 


Getting started with Foglight for Storage Management

Contents of the release package

The Foglight for Storage Management 6.0.0 release package contains the following:

  1. Foglight for Storage Management 6.0.0
  2. Product documentation, including:

Installation instructions

Foglight for Storage Management 6.0.0 comes pre-installed and enabled on Foglight Evolve 6.0.0 or Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3.


To install Foglight for Storage Management on Foglight, you must install and enable the following cartridge files. The sequence of cartridge installation is important because of their dependencies:

To install cartridge files, use the Administration > Cartridges > Cartridge Inventory dashboard. For full installation instructions, refer to the topic "Installing Foglight cartridges" in the Foglight Administration and Configuration Help.

Additional resources

Additional information is available from the following:

Globalization

This section contains information about installing and operating this product in non-English configurations, such as those needed by customers outside of North America. This section does not replace the materials about supported platforms and configurations found elsewhere in the product documentation.

This release was not enabled and tested for international operation. Only U.S. English configurations of this product and U.S. English datasets are fully supported. Support for non-ASCII characters or non-English configurations may work appropriately, but these configurations have not been tested and this release should be used with caution in these environments.

 


About Us

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