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Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition 8.9.3 - Upgrade Guide

Understanding product versions

This guide provides instructions on how to upgrade to the latest version of the Management Server and Agent Manager for use with Foglight® for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition.

This guide also provides upgrade instructions for the cartridges and cartridge-related components that are included with Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3. The Management Server and the Agent Manager have been updated to version 5.9.8 for this release.

This section provides information on product version numbers as well as components and cartridge compatibility:

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Important changes in Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3
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Supported upgrade path
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Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition versions

Important changes in Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3

This section provides information about changes made in this release and pre-announcements of changes planned for future releases:

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Most components delivered with this Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition release have been updated. For details, see Component versions.
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Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition introduced FIPS Compliance mode starting from 8.9.2. Once the FIPS Compliance mode is enabled or disabled during installation, you cannot change it without a complete re-installation of Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition. You cannot upgrade to a FIPS-compliant Foglight from a non-FIPS compliant Foglight, and vice versa.

Supported upgrade path

Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition supports upgrading from Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition and Foglight for Storage Management.

Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3 may be directly upgraded from version 8.8, 8.8.5, 8.9, 8.9.1, and 8.9.2. To upgrade from version 8.7.5, 8.7, 8.6, you must first upgrade the virtual appliance to version 8.8, then to version 8.9.3. For more information, see Upgrading Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition from a previous version.

Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition versions

Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition consists of these key software components:

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Management Server
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Agent Manager
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Cartridges

Each of these components are versioned independently. For details, see Component versions.

The version number of the Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition release does not correspond to the version number of the Management Server. To view the version of your Management Server, click About in the lower right corner of the browser interface.

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