SolarWinds Virtualization Manager Changelog
What's new in SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 8.3
Mar 13, 2019- New features and improvements:
- vSAN monitoring
- Virtualization Manager now monitors VMware vSAN cluster information. If you're using VMware vSAN, monitoring is enabled automatically once you upgrade to 8.3. vSAN information is surfaced in cluster details and other summary views.
- vSAN monitoring comes with new widgets for use in your views and works with PerfStack so that you can compare vSAN data alongside your other collected metrics.
- Examples of monitored information include the amount of storage used and available, whether or not a resynchronization is in progress for any virtual hosts, and how much storage space the de-duplication and compression feature is saving you.
- Container monitoring:
- This release adds support for basic container monitoring, supporting Docker, Kubernetes and Apache Mesos environments.
- Custom Properties
- Three new object types are now available for creating Custom Properties in the Orion Web Console: Virtual Machines, Virtual Hosts, and Virtual Datastores.
- Recommendations in Orion Maps
- You can now see recommendations for VMAN-monitored elements in Orion Maps.
- New user installation:
- For information about installing Virtualization Manager, see the Orion Installer and Virtualization Manager Installation Guide. After installation, use the VMAN Getting Started Guide to get started fast.
- How to upgrade:
- For a detailed upgrade walkthrough, see the VMAN Upgrade Guide.
- Fixed issues:
- VMAN 8.3 fixes the following issues:
- Resources that would not load with the message "There was an error rendering with Problems" now load properly.
- The MSMQ message queue should no longer become backed up during message processing.
- VMAN will now prioritize mapping virtual machines and hosts to nodes on the same polling engine as a parent node of the virtual machine or host in question, preventing previously incorrect IP address mappings and addressing an issue where in some cases, VMAN monitoring for VMware ESX hosts and vCenters may have polled an incorrect host device due to incorrect IP address mapping.
- The "Virtual Disks and Related Storage Infrastructure" report now reports the correct drive letters in cases where there are a large number of virtual disks.
- Capacity Planning Reports trend accuracy has been improved.
New in SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 8.2 (Aug 1, 2018)
- Improvements:
- New wizard for adding virtual objects for monitoring:
- Adding new vCenters, Hyper-V hosts, and standalone ESX hosts for monitoring is now easier. The new wizard will walk you through adding a virtual object for monitoring step by step.
- New user installation:
- For information about installing Virtualization Manager, see the Orion Installer and Virtualization Manager Installation Guide. After installation, use the VMAN Getting Started Guide to get started fast.
- Fixed issues:
- Some Recommendations that weren't appearing in the UI now appear correctly.
- Some management actions and Recommendation actions that weren't working properly for a domain user now work properly.
- An InvalidCastException error no longer appears in the NPM Virtualization Assets widget after upgrading VMAN.
- Accepting an automated change suggested by Recommendations no longer causes any issue.
- VMAN federated collectors should no longer have any issue being deployed on vCenter 6.5.
New in SolarWinds Virtualization Manager 4.0.0 (Aug 26, 2011)
- Time Travel: Enables historical problem diagnosis in fast moving virtual environments. Answers questions such as:
- What happened at 3am last Tuesday?
- Which VMs on the host were driving the most CPU use at that time?
- vSphere Plugin:
- Launch Virtualization Manager from within the client
- Leverage Virtualization Manager from within vCenter™ client
- Launch Virtualization Manager modules from vCenter inventory, dependency maps, Performance Analyzer, and more
- Capacity Planning I/O:
- Support for storage and network I/O in capacity planning
- Understand datastore capacity through measurement
- Answer “when will I run out?” and “how many more will fit?” for storage and network I/O
- Alert Recommendations:
- Detailed alert recommendations and “active links” from alerts
- Launch directly from an alert into dependency map, search, DNA and performance analyzer in context
- Improved alert recommendations
- Improved Performance Charting:
- Increased line count on charts
- Multiple metrics for each CI (same units)
- Graph overlays
- Alerts, notes, config collection
- New Out-of-the-Box Content: New dashboards, alerts, and trends:
- 2 new dashboards:
- Host and Cluster Health
- Showback: Usage broken down by folder and resource pool.
- 12 new alerts:
- VM Disk Latency, Host To Datastore Latency
- Host Bus Resets, Command Aborts
- Phantom Snapshots”
- Datastore Excessive Log File Usage
- Multi CPU VM Potential Unused CPU
- Host Network NIC Utilization
- Memory Limit Less Than Allocated
- 18 new trends:
- Thin Provisioned Reclaimable Space
- Amazon EC2 Cost by Folder, Resource Pool
- Stack charts