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Foglight® Consolidation Advisor 6.3.0
Developed for Foglight Management Server 6.3.0 / Foglight Evolve 6.3.0
Release Notes
April 2023
Welcome to Foglight Consolidation Advisor
Resolved issues and enhancements
Getting started with Foglight Consolidation Advisor
Foglight Consolidation Advisor helps you to plan future consolidations of your virtual and physical servers by calculating the combined load of VMware virtual machines and physical hosts and recommend the hardware needed to run the combined load.
The Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the 1.0.0 release of the Foglight for IBM Cloud Migration Assessment. Review all sections before starting the installation.
This 6.3.0 release of Foglight Consolidation Advisor accompanies the release of Foglight Evolve 6.3.0. It is the first release and does not include any resolved issue or enhancement.
There are no known issues known to exist at the time of this release.
Foglight Consolidation Advisor 6.3.x requires Management Server version 6.3.x and Foglight Agent Manager version 6.3.x.
The following Foglight product versions and platforms are compatible with this release.
Product Name |
Product Version |
Platform |
Foglight Management Server |
6.3.0 |
All Platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Management Server |
Foglight Agent Manager |
6.3.0 |
All Platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Agent Manager |
Foglight Evolve |
6.3.0 |
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 Consolidation Advisor is covered by the Foglight Evolve Operate and Flex license.
To activate a trial or a purchased commercial license:
Foglight Consolidation Advisor 6.3.0 is a software release, and consists of the .car file required for installation on the Management Server and the necessary documentation.
Foglight Consolidation Advisor 6.3.0 comes pre-installed on Foglight Evolve 6.3.0. Foglight Consolidation Advisor can be installed on the Foglight Management Server versions listed in the Upgrade and Compatibility section.
For detailed information about installing Foglight Consolidation Advisor, see the Foglight Consolidation Advisor 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.
Quest creates software solutions that make the benefits of new technology
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Foglight®
Consolidation Advisor 6.3.0 Developed for Foglight Management Server 6.3.0 / Foglight Evolve 6.3.0 Release Notes April 2023 Welcome to
Foglight Consolidation Advisor Resolved issues and enhancements Getting
started with Foglight Consolidation Advisor
Foglight Consolidation Advisor helps you to plan future consolidations of your virtual and physical servers by calculating the combined load of VMware virtual machines and physical hosts and recommend the hardware needed to run the combined load.
The Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the 1.0.0 release of the Foglight for IBM Cloud Migration Assessment. Review all sections before starting
the installation.
This 6.3.0 release of Foglight Consolidation Advisor accompanies the release of
Foglight Evolve 6.3.0. It is the first release and does not include any resolved issue
or enhancement. There are no known issues known to exist at the time of this release. Foglight Consolidation Advisor 6.3.x requires Management Server version
6.3.x and Foglight
Agent Manager version 6.3.x.
The following Foglight product versions and platforms are compatible with this release.
Product Name Product Version Platform Foglight Management Server 6.3.0 All Platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Management Server
Foglight Agent Manager 6.3.0 All Platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Agent Manager
Foglight Evolve 6.3.0 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 Consolidation Advisor is covered by the Foglight
Evolve Operate and Flex license. To activate a trial or a purchased commercial license: Foglight Consolidation
Advisor 6.3.0 is a software release, and consists of the .car file
required for installation on the Management Server and the necessary
documentation.
Foglight Consolidation
Advisor 6.3.0 comes pre-installed on Foglight Evolve 6.3.0.
Foglight Consolidation Advisor can be installed on the Foglight Management Server versions listed in
the Upgrade and Compatibility section. For detailed information about installing Foglight
Consolidation Advisor, see the Foglight
Consolidation Advisor 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. Quest creates software solutions that make the benefits of new technology
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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:
Quest, the Quest logo, Foglight, and Where next meets
now are trademarks
and registered trademarks of Quest Software Inc. in the U.S.A. and other
countries. For a complete list of Quest Software trademarks, please visit our
website at
www.quest.com/legal. Red Hat, JBoss, the JBoss logo, and Red Hat Enterprise
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Contents
Welcome to Foglight
Consolidation Advisor
Resolved issues and enhancements
Known issues
Upgrade and compatibility
System requirements
Product licensing
Getting started with
Foglight Consolidation Advisor
Contents of the release package
Installation instructions
Additional resources
Globalization
About Us
Technical support resources
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