Foglight® Resource Optimizer 6.0.0
Developed for Foglight Management Server 6.0.0 / Foglight Evolve 6.0.0
Release Notes
June 2021
Welcome to Foglight Resource Optimizer
Resolved issues and enhancements
Getting started with Foglight Resource Optimizer
Virtual machines (VMs) are quickly becoming the industry standard in IT infrastructures. IT managers find themselves with hundreds, if not thousands of VMs or physical machine hosts in their infrastructures. VMs can be added quickly, making it necessary to plan for the addition of virtual machines to the physical machines that host them. This can be a challenge for administrators. IT managers lack the required tools to accurately optimize CPU, memory, and network consumption, or project storage requirements. Monitoring virtual machine environments with Foglight® Resource Optimizer simplifies the optimization process, providing waste-finding and right-sizing functionality for virtualized environments.
These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the 6.0.0 release of the Foglight Resource Optimizer. Review all sections before starting the installation.
This release contains the following new features and updates:
Foglight Resource Optimizer for VMware Environments 6.0.0 accompanies the release of Foglight Evolve 6.0.0. It does not include any new features or improvements:
Foglight Resource Optimizer for Hyper-V Environments 6.0.0 accompanies the release of Foglight Evolve 6.0.0. It does not include new features or improvements:
The following is a list of issues addressed and enhancements implemented in this release:
Foglight Resource Optimizer for VMware Environments 6.0.0 accompanies the release of Foglight Evolve 6.0.0. It does not include any resolved issues.
Foglight Resource Optimizer for Hyper-V Environments 6.0.0 accompanies the release of Foglight Evolve 6.0.0. It does not include any resolved issues.
The following is a list of issues known to exist at the time of this release:
|
Defect ID |
Known Issue |
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VFOG-12427 |
Summary: Foglight Resource Optimizer can reclaim CPU & Memory resources only on one VM at the same time, when the Hot-Add feature was not enabled. Details: The Hot-Add feature only can be enabled in VMware® vSphere® Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus versions, but not on the Standard version. Only VM Hardware version 7 or later support the Hot-Add feature. The Guest OS of the VM also needs to support the Hot-Add feature. Workaround: For any Hot-Add disabled VMs, do not reclaim CPU & Memory resources at the same time, otherwise, one of the reclaim actions would fail. |
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VFOG-12306 |
When upgrading VMware-Optimizer-5_6_16_1.car to version 5.7.0 (or later), follow one of these processes:
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VFOG-12221 |
When reclaiming selected resources based on the Optimizer recommendations, these entries are removed from the recommendations list while the reclaim operation is in progress. When the reclaim operation completes, these recommendations re-appear on the list for a short time (less than 5 minutes). These recommendations are finally removed from the list only after new data has been retrieved (in next 5 minutes). |
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VFOG-11968 |
Support resize for hosts using GRUB2 boot loader. |
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VFOG-11203 |
Remove platforms that have reached end of life and add support to new releases. |
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VFOG-11144 |
Support disk resize on disk without partition. |
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VFOG-10712 |
Adding constraints on an ESX Host does not change the recommendations for the VMs residing within that host. |
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VFOG-9477 |
When installing the CommonAnalytics-5_6_16.car cartridge, a lot of warnings are reported in the Management Server log file. These warnings refer to deprecated properties, and can be ignored. |
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VFOG-9104 |
Implement Storage remediation for SQL Server clusters. |
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VFOG-7235 |
Renew the currently used version of NTFS-3G in vOptimizer ISO. |
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Defect ID |
Known Issue |
|
VFOG-12221 |
When reclaiming selected resources based on the Optimizer recommendations, these entries are removed from the recommendations list while the reclaim operation is in progress. When the reclaim operation completes, these recommendations re-appear on the list for a short time (less than 5 minutes). These recommendations are finally removed from the list only after new data has been retrieved (in next 5 minutes). |
There are no known third-party issues specific to this release of Foglight Resource Optimizer.
The latest version of Foglight Resource Optimizer is 6.0.0.
For upgrade and compatibility information, see the following sections:
The following is a list of product versions and platforms compatible with this Foglight Resource Optimizer release.
|
Product Name |
Product Version |
Platform |
|
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 |
The latest version of Foglight Resource Optimizer for VMware Environments is 6.0.0.
Foglight Resource Optimizer 6.0.0 requires Management Server version 6.0.0 or Foglight Evolve 6.0.0.
Foglight Resource Optimizer for VMware Environments also requires Foglight for VMware version 6.0.0.
Note: When upgrading VMware-Optimizer-5_6_16_1.car to version 6.0.0 (or later), follow one of these processes:
To upgrade Foglight Resource Optimizer for VMware Environments to version 6.0.0:
For cartridge installation instructions, see “Installing Foglight cartridges” in the Foglight Administration and Configuration Help.
The latest version of Foglight Resource Optimizer for Hyper-V Environments is 6.0.0.
Foglight Resource Optimizer 6.0.0 requires Management Server version 6.0.0 or Foglight Evolve 6.0.0.
Foglight Resource Optimizer for Hyper-V Environments also requires Foglight for Hyper-V version 6.0.0.
To upgrade Foglight Resource Optimizer for Hyper-V Environments to version 6.0.0:
For cartridge installation instructions, see “Installing Foglight cartridges” in the Foglight Administration and Configuration Help.
Foglight Resource Optimizer 6.0.0 can be installed on Foglight and comes installed on Foglight Evolve 9.3 or Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3.
For information about system requirements for this release, see section "Hardware requirements and guidelines" in the System Requirements and Platform Support Guide for the product you have installed.
Before installing Foglight Resource Optimizer, ensure your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:
| Platform, Memory and Hard Disk Space | The platform, memory, and hard disk space requirements for the monitored servers must match the Agent Manager requirements. For complete information, see the System Requirements and Platform Support Guide. |
| Operating System | Foglight Resource Optimizer can be installed on any supported Foglight Management Server or Foglight Evolve configuration. |
This section provides information about problems that you might encounter while monitoring your environment with Foglight Resource Optimizer, and describes the solutions available to troubleshoot these problems.
This section includes the following topics:
Users must evaluate the time a VM needs to shut down for reclaiming resources.
For example, if the evaluation result is 5 minutes, users must:
1. Add
-Dcom.quest.hyperv.timeout.minutes=5 to
the FglAM_HOME\state\default\config\baseline.jvmargs file.
2. Restart the Foglight Agent Manager to load the parameter and use the new value.
With default configuration, the recommendations provided by the Foglight Resource Optimizer for Hyper-V Environments are not displayed on the Federation Master.
Workaround:
1. Add the following line to the FOGLIGHT_HOME\config\server.config file on Federation Master:
server.vm.option0 =
"-Doptimizer.hyperv.vm.life.period.millis=1800000";
2. Save changes, and then restart the Management Server.
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 Resource Optimizer is covered by the Foglight Evolve Operate and Flex license and Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition license.
To activate a trial or a purchased commercial license:
The Foglight Resource Optimizer release package contains the following:
Foglight Resource Optimizer 6.0.0 comes pre-installed and enabled on Foglight Evolve 9.3 or Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3.
Foglight Resource Optimizer can be installed on the Foglight Management Server versions listed in the Upgrade and Compatibility section.
Note: Based on current model, Foglight Resource Optimizer for Hyper-V Environments only support VMs on Cluster Shared Volume (CSV).
To install Foglight Resource Optimizer for VMware Environments version 6.0.0:
For cartridge installation instructions, see “Installing Foglight cartridges” in the Foglight Administration and Configuration Help.
To install Foglight Resource Optimizer for Hyper-V Environments version 6.0.0:
For cartridge installation instructions, see “Installing Foglight cartridges” in the Foglight Administration and Configuration Help.
If you plan to reclaim resources that require a VM shutdown (for example, Change CPU or Memory Allocation, Power Off VM, etc.), and there is no Integration Service on the targeted VM, save all data on that VM before performing the reclaim action.
VMs without Integration Services cannot be shut down successfully. Instead, the VMs are turned off, and all unsaved data is lost.
If you plan to reclaim resources that require a VM shutdown (for example, Change CPU or Memory Allocation, Power Off VM, etc.), and there are no VMware Tools installed on the targeted VM, save all data on that VM before performing the reclaim action.
VMs without VMware Tools cannot be shut down successfully. Instead, the VMs are turned off, and all unsaved data is lost.
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.
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