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BMC Helix Continuous Optimization is a capacity management solution that gives you insights to optimize the use of your current IT resources and plan for future demands. It collects and analyzes the capacity data and core metrics for CPU, memory, and storage, and provides recommendations for optimizing them.

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updated 14 Mar

Learn what's new or changed for BMC Helix Continuous Optimization 23.1, including new features, urgent issues, and documentation updates.

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Date	Summary	Reference
Mar 14, 2023	Enhancements available in this release: Analyze forecasted data from external sources Updates to vSphere views Future saturation and Watchlist pages in the VMware Infrastructure view VM snapshots and Future saturation pages in the VMware Virtual Machines view Enhanced Cluster over-subscription recommendations page Check ETL health for optimal data collection Include untagged business services in the Business Services view Assign permission to create and edit data marts ETL module enhancements	23.1.02 enhancements
Feb 03, 2023	Enhancements available in this release: Analyze the resource usage of servers by using workload definitions ETL module enhancements	23.1.01 enhancements
Jan 12, 2023	Enhancements available in this release: Analyze improved memory recommendations for Kubernetes containers Reconcile entities to resolve duplicate data Filter entities by entity status in a summary data mart Extract status details of Gateway Server and agents Review data from the virtual node namespace in the VMware vSphere view Update all Remote ETL Engines simultaneously Enhanced Moviri - K8S (Kubernetes) Prometheus extractor Support for new versions of operating systems	23.1 enhancements and patches
Dec 09, 2022	Enhancements available in this release: Verify the status of remote components Analyze the metric behavior against a baseline to detect data anomaly Migrate rule-based custom statistics from TrueSight Capacity Optimization Manage Agent lists using REST API Enhancements in the K8S (Kubernetes) Prometheus ETL	22.4.02 enhancements
Nov 14, 2022	Enhancements available in this release: Updates to the custom optimizer rules Specify a namespace to choose a data source for a metric Compare a day profile baseline data against the same day of the week or month Create a composite report based on a report template Reimport data by running an ETL in the data repair mode Specify multiple golden model scenario IDs in a summary data mart Enhanced IND_USAGE_SCORE indicator ETL module enhancements	22.4.01 enhancements
Oct 10, 2022	Enhancements available in this release: Get insights into the overall health and status of business services in BMC Helix Dashboards Manage the capacity of your mainframe environment Nonnegative percentile-shift linear trend algorithm in Time Forecasting Model Maps page in the Servers Overview view Export and import ETL configuration by using APIs Add and edit string configuration metrics Domain and tag filters for Optimize data marts in BMC Helix Dashboards Display of the Standard Time label to indicate non-DST affected time zones in an analysis Support for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS operating system ETL module enhancements	22.4 enhancements and patches

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Getting started

Quickly start using the product to manage your capacity.

Orientation

Learn about the product capabilities.

Setting up and going live

Set up the product and tailor the environment according to your organizational requirements.

Installing

Install the Remote ETL Engine and related components to collect on-premises data.

Collecting data

Set up data collection.

Migrating to BMC Helix Continuous Optimization

Learn how to migrate data from TrueSight Capacity Optimization to BMC Helix Continuous Optimization.

Analyzing your infrastructure data by using capacity views

Get the visibility into the capacity utilization and size of the IT infrastructure.

Managing and analyzing data from your workspace

Manage domains, systems, business drivers, their hierarchy, and metrics.

Estimating the cost of migrating servers to the public cloud

Evaluate the cost effectiveness of migrating servers to a public cloud.

Administering

Manage the administrative activities.

Managing the capacity of your infrastructure

Use cases to meet the capacity management goals.

Troubleshooting

Issue resolution, error messages, logs, and contacting Support.

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Videos

The following table lists topics that contain videos, which supplement or replace the text-based documentation. You can access these videos and others in the TrueSight Capacity Optimization - How-to videos playlist on YouTube.

Information

These videos describe the functionality of TrueSight Capacity Optimization, but they are valid for BMC Helix Continuous Optimization too.

Feature	Topic
Administration	Page: Users and authorization profiles
Analysis	Page: Creating an analysis Page: Editing chart options for an analysis Page: Editing metric styles for an analysis Page: Managing entity filters Page: Using the Quick analysis tool Page: Working with analyses
Capacity views	Page: Adding a custom view Page: AWS views Page: Business services, applications, business drivers, and service pools Page: Configuring the Custom text template Page: Configuring the Summary table template Page: Configuring the System details template Page: Configuring the System group data explorer template Page: Configuring the System time forecasting template Page: Configuring the Tree Map template Page: Configuring the Visual map template Page: Kubernetes view Page: Reclaiming unused storage capacity Page: Server views Page: vCloud view Page: Working with capacity pools
ETLs	Page: BMC Discovery 11.x Extractor Page: Collecting data Page: Managing an Open ETL template
Modeling	Page: Adding what-if events to a time forecasting model scenario Page: Creating a time forecasting model
Reporting	Page: Configuring the Report Executor task Page: Creating reports

For more videos, see the BMC Helix Continuous Optimization playlist .

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