Foglight For VMware 5.8.0 Release Notes Revision 1
Foglight® for VMware 5.8.0
Developed for Foglight Management Server 5.9.5/ Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9/ Foglight Evolve 9.0
Note: The Foglight Evolve in the Release Notes refers to both Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9 and Foglight Evolve 9.0.
Release Notes Revision 1
August 2019
Revision 1:
Foglight for VMware 5.8.0 Release Notes Revision 1 is a re-release of the Foglight for VMware 5.8.0 Release Notes with the following change:
- Added a note to indicate that Foglight Evolve in the Release Notes refers to both Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9 and Foglight Evolve 9.0.
Contents
Welcome to Foglight for VMware
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 for VMware
About Us
Welcome to Foglight for VMware
Foglight for VMware is the first monitoring solution to truly understand the virtual infrastructure and its use—providing everything from high-level infrastructure summary views to detailed, highly-visual, diagnostic architectural representations.
These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds and other important information about the 5.8.0 release of Foglight for VMware. Review all sections before starting the installation.
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New in this release
This 5.8.0 release of Foglight for VMware accompanies the release of Foglight Evolve 9.0. This release includes the following improvements:
- Added VMware license control to ESX Host. (VM-6424)
- Made failed vCenter easy for the customer to know. (VM-6408)
- Added a fully-red bar render for VMware as performance score of Zero. (VM-6410)
- Added Optimizer Tab to VMware Cluster explorer view. (VM-6415)
- Added Optimizer Tab to VMware ESX Host explorer view. (VM-6416)
- Added Optimizer Tab to VMware Datacenter explorer view. (VM-6417)
- Added Optimizer Tab to VMware Virtual Center explorer view. (VM-6420)
- Updated retention policies for unused metrics and properties. (VM-6405)
- Created rule for VMware to send daily E-mail. (VM-6421)
- Created Visual Analytics Heatmap Chart for VMware. (VM-6411)
- Created Visual Analytics scatter plot dashboards for VMware. (VM-6412)
- Added Cost tab to VMware VM Explorer view. (VM-6432)
- Replaced VMs tab with heatmap/scatterplot on ESX Host and Resource Pool dashboard. (VM-6438)
- Enabled FglAM HA support for VMware agent. (VM-6448)
- Enabled Dashboard Access Control for VMware. (VM-6450)
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