Foglight Cost Director 5.8.0 Release Notes Revision 1

Foglight^® Cost Director 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 Cost Director 5.8.0 Release Notes Revision 1 is a re-release of the Foglight Cost Director 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

Contents

Welcome to Foglight Cost Director

New in this release

Resolved issues and enhancements

Known issues

Upgrade and compatibility

System requirements

Product licensing

Getting started with Foglight Cost Director

About Us

Welcome to Foglight Cost Director

Welcome to Foglight Cost Director

Business are challenged with know which workloads to move to the cloud. Foglight^® Cost Director alleviates this problem by allowing businesses to know the true costs associated with running your data center to help you truly understand the cost of new VMs, environment growth, planned changes, and whether or not Cloud is going to really save you money.

These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the 5.8.0 release of Foglight Cost Director. Review all sections before starting installation. 

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New in this release

New in this release

This 5.8.0 release of Foglight Cost Director accompanies the release of Foglight Evolve 9.0. This release includes the following improvements:

• Included On-Premises and Cloud Cost in Overview Tab. (VFOGR-983)
• Displayed VM cost metrics alongside performance. (VFOGR-895)
• Improved the Cost tab in VM Explorer view for better user experience. (VFOGR-850)
• Improved VM Ownership and supported to assign VMs/folders to Business Units in tree table. (COSTD-19)
• Added Cost Director Lite version. (COSTD-107)

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