DOWNLOAD VMAN 7.0 RC 2 FROM YOUR CUSTOMER PORTAL TODAY!!!

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 6.3 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.

Download VMAN from the Release Candidate section of your Customer Portal.