20.02.01: Patch 1 for TrueSight Capacity Optimization 20.02
This topic contains information about fixes and updates provided in this patch. It also provides instructions for downloading and applying the patch.
Before you install this patch, you must have previously installed the base version (20.02) of the product. Patches are cumulative and contain all updates released after the base version.
For details on supported product versions, see Compatibility matrix.
Known and corrected issues
For information about issues corrected in this patch, see Known and corrected issues.
Enhancements
This patch provides the following enhancements:
Support for negative reservations
The Reservations feature is enhanced to support negative reservations. You can now cancel some of the resources that are already reserved for a specific tenant.
- A new option, Cancel previously reserved resources, is added to the Reservations UI to create a negative reservation. For details, see Managing Reservations.
- While creating or updating a reservation using the Reservation API, you can now specify a new request parameter, Metadata, to provide additional information about the reservation. For details, see Reservation API.
- You can specify the negative reservation information in the XML file that can be imported into TrueSight Capacity Optimization using the Generic - Reservation XML file parser. For details, see Preparing to integrate reservations by importing XML files.
Extended coverage for data collection
Metrics for VMware vSAN
The VMware vCenter Extractor Service now collects VMware vSAN metrics for cluster, hosts, virtual machines, and datastores. For details, see Lookup information and metrics for VMware ETLs.
Metrics for Transaction data
The BMC - TrueSight Capacity Optimization Gateway VIS files parser now imports transaction metrics as subresource metrics of workloads. For details, see Entity relationship, metrics and lookup information for BMC - TrueSight Capacity Optimization Gateway VIS files parser.
New ETL to import data from ElasticSearch
The new ElasticSearch ETL enables you to collect capacity-relevant data from ElasticSearch. For details, see Moviri Integrator for TrueSight Capacity Optimization - ElasticSearch.
ETL module enhancements
The following ETL modules are enhanced to support new features and additional metrics.
ETL module | Enhancement |
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Introduced POD Workload for POD optimization | |
Moviri Integrator for TrueSight Capacity Optimization - Dynatrace |
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Moviri Integrator for TrueSight Capacity Optimization - ServiceNow | Support for Capacity Optimization domain configuration metrics |
Extended software support
The following ETLs now support new software versions:
ETL module | Newly supported software version |
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Moviri Integrator for TrueSight Capacity Optimization - Splunk | Splunk 8 |
Storage All-in-One ETL for TrueSight Capacity Optimization |
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New out-of-the-box capacity view for Red Hat Ceph systems
The new Red Hat Ceph Systems view provides storage views to verify the memory utilization and capacity utilization of your Red Hat Ceph servers and determine if they can meet future allocation requirements. For details, see Ceph Systems view.
Downloading the patch
To access the EPD website, you must provide your BMC Support credentials. You must be licensed for the product to access the download page. You may be prompted to complete the Export Compliance Form.
Use the EPD links in the following sections to access the installation files on the EPD website. From the EPD page, download the installation files for your platform.
EPD link: TrueSight Capacity Optimization
Applying the patch
The patch is applicable for the following TrueSight Capacity Optimization components: Application Server, ETL Engine, Capacity Agent, and Gateway Server.
Warning
Before applying this patch, ensure that you have an OS backup or a VM snapshot of servers on which the components are installed.
Applying the Patch consists of the following steps:
- Apply Patch to the Application Server and ETL Engine
- Apply Patch to the Gateway Server
- Apply Patch to the Capacity Agent
- Reinstall the Capacity Optimization plugin
No. | Task | Procedure |
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A | Apply the Patch to the Application Server. |
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B | Apply the Patch to the ETL Engine. |
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C | Perform this task if Sentry or Moviri ETL modules and capacity views are already configured in your environment. |
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Task | Procedure |
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Apply the Patch to the Gateway Server. |
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Apply the Patch to the existing TrueSight Capacity Agent OR install/upgrade BMC Helix Continuous Optimization Agent, as applicable.
Task | Procedure |
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Apply the Patch to the Capacity Agent (Applicable for the existing TrueSight Capacity Agents only) |
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Install or upgrade the BMC Helix Continuous Optimization Agent (Applicable for the BMC Helix Continuous Optimization Agents only) |
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Task | Procedure |
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Reinstall the Capacity Optimization plugin | After you install this patch, you must reinstall the Capacity Optimization plugin to use the latest updates to the features that are available in the TrueSight console. For information on reinstalling the plugin, see Reinstalling the Capacity Optimization plugin. |
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