Foglight® for Cloud Migration 6.0.0
Developed for Foglight Management Server 6.0.0 / Foglight Evolve 6.0.0
Release Notes
June 2021
Welcome to Foglight for Cloud Migration
Resolved issues and enhancements
Getting started with Foglight for Cloud Migration
Foglight® for Cloud Migration supports Cloud Model for any cloud. It finds the best target cloud tiers for the virtual machines you selected, and adds the virtual machines to migration plan. After configured monitored Rapid Recovery core server and with an available Azure account, Foglight for Cloud Migration helps you to migrate the selected VMware virtual machines to Azure cloud.
The Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the 6.0.0 release of the Foglight for Cloud Migration. Review all sections before starting the installation.
This 6.0.0 release of Foglight for Cloud Migration accompanies the release of Foglight Evolve 6.0.0. This release does not include any new features or improvements.
This 6.0.0 release of Foglight for Cloud Migration accompanies the release of Foglight Evolve 6.0.0. This release does not include any resolved issues or enhancements
The following is a list of issues known to exist at the time of this release.
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Defect ID |
Known Issue |
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FCM-92 |
M2 type machines in Google Cloud are not supported to import from Portal. |
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FCM-33 |
Running Cloud Model or Migration offline is not supported. These features must have an Internet connection to collect network traffic cost and cloud disk data from the Cloud provider. |
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FCM-31 |
ConnectIion exception might occur while importing Cloud IaaS Offerings from portal. |
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TORCD-2685 |
Users need to manually modify the disk type in Azure if the disk type in model result is not HDD. |
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TORCD-2674 |
If the VMs have multiple NICs, only one NIC will be created for the migrated VM in Azure by default. Users need to add more NICs manually after migration. |
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TORCD-2656 |
Disk IOPs/throughput of VM size has limits, the recommended size may not be able to meet with the VM performance request. |
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TORCD-2612 |
The operating system of the virtual machines should be compatible with the System Requirement Guide for Rapid Recovery 6.3. |
Foglight for Cloud Migration 6.0.0 requires Management Server version 6.0.0 and Foglight Agent Manager version 6.0.0. It also requires Foglight for VMware lite version 6.0.0 and Foglight for Hyper-V lite version 6.0.0.
The following Foglight product versions and platforms are compatible with this release.
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Product Name |
Product Version |
Platform |
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Foglight Management Server |
6.0.0 |
All Platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Management Server |
|
Foglight Agent Manager |
6.0.0 |
All Platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Agent Manager |
|
Foglight Evolve |
6.0.0 |
All Platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Evolve |
For information about system requirements for this release, see the corresponding Foglight System Requirements and Platform Support Guide.
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 the Cartridge for Infrastructure), others may require an additional license.
Foglight for Cloud Migration is covered by the Foglight Evolve Cloud and Flex license.
To activate a trial or a purchased commercial license:
Foglight for Cloud Migration 6.0.0 is a software technical preview release, and consists of the .car file required for installation on the Management Server and the necessary documentation.
Foglight Cloud Migration 6.0.0 comes pre-installed on Foglight Evolve 6.0.0, or Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3. Foglight Cloud Migration can be installed on the Foglight Management Server versions listed in the Upgrade and Compatibility section.
For detailed information about installing Foglight for Cloud Migration, see the Foglight for Cloud Migration User Guide.
Additional information is available from the following:
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: The server will be enabled for Global Operations, but not localized to any particular locale. Some legacy agents cannot support multi-byte locales.
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