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Foglight 8.0.0 - Upgrade Guide

Understand product versions Best practices Upgrade the Foglight Management Server Upgrade the Foglight Agent Manager Upgrade the Database cartridges Upgrading the Infrastructure Management cartridges Upgrade the Integration cartridges Upgrade the cartridges in a federated or High Availability (HA) environment Appendix: Deploying an agent package using the browser interface

Integration cartridges

The following Integration cartridges have been updated to version 8.0.0:

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Foglight for Integration
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Foglight for NMS Integration

Virtualization cartridges

The following Virtualization (Evolve) cartridges are compatible with Management Server 8.0.0 if they are version 7.1.0 or above:

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Foglight Capacity Director
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Foglight Cost Director
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Foglight Capacity Manager
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Foglight Change Analyzer
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Foglight for Hyper-V
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Foglight Resource Optimizer
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Foglight for Storage Management
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Foglight for VMware
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Foglight for VMware Horizon View
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Foglight for Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp
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Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for AWS
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Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Azure
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Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Google Cloud
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Foglight for Container Management
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Foglight for Cloud Migration
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Foglight for Netvault
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Foglight for vCloud Director
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Quest Protect
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Foglight for IBM Cloud Migration Assessment
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Upgrade difficulty: Easy

Expected time: Approximately 5 minutes per cartridge

Upgrade use cases

The following are common upgrade use cases:

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Scenario 1 — New release
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Scenario 2 — New Management Server features or defect fixes
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Scenario 3 — Agent Manager client-side feature dependency or defect fix

Scenario 1 — New release

You notice that there is a new version of Foglight and are wondering if you should upgrade. If you do not have a specific reason to upgrade, we recommend you stay on the version you are running now.

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