Foglight® Cost Director 5.8.0

Developed for Foglight Management Server 5.9.5 / Foglight Evolve 9.0

Release Notes

July 2019


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

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. 

 


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:

 


Resolved issues and enhancements

This 5.8.0 release of Foglight Cost Director accompanies the release of Foglight Evolve 9.0. This release includes fixes for the following issues:

Defect ID

Description

COSTD-86

Fixed an issue that the Top Costs by resource did not change after changing the Time Range.

COSTD-66

Fixed the NullPointer Exception in Cost Calculation script.

COSTD-43

Fixed the Performance tuning for Admistration > Virtual Machines tab.

COSTD-87

Resolved the issue when VMware agent cannot collect datastore information for virtual disk.

 


Known issues

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

Defect ID

Known Issue

TORCD-2521

The value of "I/O Operation Cost per 100,000" can only show 3 decimal places by default, so the value of this metric cannot be less than 0.001.

 

 


Upgrade and compatibility 

Foglight Cost Director 5.8.0 requires Management Server version 5.9.5, and Foglight Agent Manager version 5.9.5. It also requires Foglight for VMware version 5.8.0 and Foglight for Hyper-V version 5.8.0.

 

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

Product Name

Product Version

Platform

Foglight Management Server 5.9.5 All platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Management Server
Foglight Agent Manager 5.9.5 All platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Agent Manager
Foglight Evolve 9.0 All platforms supported by this version of Foglight Evolve

 


System requirements 

For information about system requirements for this release, see the corresponding Foglight System Requirements and Platform Support Guide.

 


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 Foglight for Infrastructure), others may require an additional license.

Foglight Cost Director is covered by the Foglight Evolve Operate 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 Cost Director

Contents of the release package

Foglight Cost Director 5.8.0 is a software release, and consists of the .car file required for installation on the Management Server and the necessary documentation.

 

The Foglight Cost Director release package contains the following products:

1.    Foglight Cost Director version 5.8.0

2.    Product Documentation, including:

Installation instructions

Foglight Cost Director 5.8.0 comes pre-installed on Foglight Evolve 9.0.

 

Foglight Cost Director can be installed on the Foglight Management Server versions listed in the Upgrade and Compatibility section.

 

To install Foglight Cost Director:

  1. Download the following packages from Quest Support Portal:
  2. On the Cartridge Inventory dashboard, install the following cartridge files. The sequence of cartridge installation is important because of their dependencies:
    1. Virtual-VMware-5_8_0.car
    2. OptimizerAutomation-5_8_0.car
    3. CommonAnalytics-5_8_0.car
    4. Virtual-HyperV-5_8_0.car
    5. Cost-Director-5_8_0.car

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 is Unicode-enabled and supports any character set. In this release, all product components should be configured to use the same or compatible character encodings and should be installed to use the same locale and regional options. This release is targeted to support operations in the following regions: North America, Western Europe and Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Far-East Asia, Japan.  

This release has the following known capabilities or limitations: This release is only localized for English but does support the Unicode character set.  

 


About Us

We are more than just a name

We are on a quest to make your information technology work harder for you. That is why we build community-driven software solutions that help you spend less time on IT administration and more time on business innovation. We help you modernize your data center, get you to the cloud quicker and provide the expertise, security and accessibility you need to grow your data-driven business. Combined with Quest’s invitation to the global community to be a part of its innovation, and our firm commitment to ensuring customer satisfaction, we continue to deliver solutions that have a real impact on our customers today and leave a legacy we are proud of. We are challenging the status quo by transforming into a new software company. And as your partner, we work tirelessly to make sure your information technology is designed for you and by you. This is our mission, and we are in this together. Welcome to a new Quest. You are invited to Join the Innovation™.

Our brand, our vision. Together.

Our logo reflects our story: innovation, community and support. An important part of this story begins with the letter Q. It is a perfect circle, representing our commitment to technological precision and strength. The space in the Q itself symbolizes our need to add the missing piece — you — to the community, to the new Quest.

Contacting Quest

For sales or other inquiries, visit http://quest.com/company/contact-us.aspx or call +1-949-754-8000.

Technical support resources

Technical support is available to Quest customers with a valid maintenance contract and customers who have trial versions. You can access the Quest Support Portal at https://support.quest.com.

The Support Portal provides self-help tools you can use to solve problems quickly and independently, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The Support Portal enables you to:

 


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