The VMAN 7.0 RC 2 install bits can now be downloaded from your Customer Portal. Please note that the Release Candidates are fully tested and supported releases and are suitable to be run in production. 7.0 RC2 can be run as an upgrade from 7.0 RC1, as well as from the 6.4 installs. If you have problems with the RC, you can file a ticket with Support just as you would for any other Generally Available (GA) version. To familiarize yourself with new features in 7.0 you can use Welcome to the Virtualization Manager 7.0 Beta 1 as a reference.
The VMAN team is excited about this release and can't wait to receive your feedback in the Virtualization Manager Release Candidate forum. Make sure to review all documentation prior to the upgrade which can be found on the VMAN 7.0 Support page.
New features and improvements
Read this section for descriptions of the new features and improvements VMAN and VIM offer in this release.
Recommendations
When VMAN identifies a way to optimize VM resources for active and potential issues, it makes a recommendation for one click optimization. Recommendations display in the Orion Web Console with a description for optimizing your network, and provides a series of steps you can apply immediately with a button click or schedule at a later time.
- Balance the virtual environment for optimal performance. You can spread load over hosts, which optimizes the performance for all virtual machines.
- Optimize capacity. Virtualization Manager predicts when you will run out of resources on virtualization entities, so you can plan in advance when you have to assign new resources.
- Predict possible future performance and capacity issues based on past trends.
Web-based License Manager
Easily add, activate, and manage Orion product licenses through the web-based License Manager. Accessing the License Manager on your main polling engine, you can monitor and update full product and evaluation licenses for your main poller, additional pollers, additional web servers, stackable pollers, and high availability pools all through one page. The License Manager also provides automatic online and offline modes for managing licenses. Add and manage evaluations with ease, including HA.
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Other improvements
Various performance improvements and security fixes
How to upgrade
Use the following resources for planning and upgrading:
- If you are upgrading:
- to VIM 7.0/Orion Platform 2016.2 and other modules (NPM, SAM, NCM, NTA, etc.), use the multiple products upgrade guide and VMAN Upgrade Guide.
- to Virtualization Manager Appliance 7.0 as a single product, use the VMAN upgrade guide.
Fixed issues
Virtualization Manager 7.0 and VIM 7.0 fix the following issues.
CASE NUMBER | DESCRIPTION |
1037297 | NPM not showing CUP and Memory usage for some ESXi servers |
1013905 | Asset tree is not loading properly |
999345 | List of Virtual Machines on a host not displaying the OS version for Windows 10 |
953038 657558 | Collector Data Processor keeps crashing |
951495 | VCenter data is inaccurate |
951394 | Additional Orion Web Server VM reports do not run |
908177 | VM to node mapping is not using MAC if integration is enabled |
916806 | sinpsyesx004.intlsos.com not returning any data - duplicated datastores causing data processing to fail |
898072 | VCenter status unknown on the Orion Web Console |
890835 | IVIM schema error on APE SWIS log |
885008 | Polling Engine Details page shows absolute value of jobs count instead of percent |
825684 | Issues with vShield Manager and VMs that are natted |
820300 | Orion Web Server does not display |
997655 | Unable to start collection jobs |
989236 | CPU overallocation |
1001589 | VMAN on-demand report displaying incorrect or old data |
966359 | Integration issue with Datastore and VMAN |
975063 | VIM appliance not passing data to the Orion server |
978665 | SSH Server CBC Mode Ciphers enabled |
978638 | Vcenter status unable to poll |
967710 | Invalid depletion data shown on Datastore dashboard for VMAN |
968708 | Vcenter data not being displayed in the Orion Web Console |
945034 | SSL certificate changes back to default after upgrade |
941086 | False alerts regarding VM reboots |
934585 | VMAN application unable to load because postgres service will not start |
918211 | VMAN crashes when a secondary collector is used |
920658 | Host rebooting during configuration collection |
913169 | Blue screen on host when running the configuration wizard, when collection has started |
910234 | No data displayed in the "cluster.cpuMHzPeak.day" column |
896552 | Trend widget does not populate when "multi-trend" mode is enabled |
893378 | VMAN stops working after upgrade to vSphere 6.0 |
891270 | Query does not return the correct number of VMs when searching past 9 days |
884311 | Intermittent collection |
873270 | Mast applicance shows ActiveMQ transport "Usage Manager Memory Limit is full errors" |
856868 | Fatal error occurred during collection |
853303 | VMAN stopped polling and displaying data |
422089 | Virtual Machine not appearing in VMAN list |
Download VMAN from the Release Candidate section of your Customer Portal.
