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This documentation supports releases of BMC Helix Continuous Optimization up to December 31, 2021. To view the latest version, select the version from the Product version menu.

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BMC Helix Continuous Optimization 21.3

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BMC Helix Continuous Optimization is a cloud-based 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.

Release notes and notices
updated 03 Jan

Learn what's new or changed in BMC Helix Continuous Optimization, including product issues and documentation updates.

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DateTitleSummary
December 30, 20212021 enhancements

Includes the following enhancements:

  • Golden model results template for custom views
  • Migrate data marts and views from TrueSight Capacity Optimization
  • Automatic selection of the correlation algorithm
November 19, 20212021 enhancements

Includes the following enhancements:

  • System time forecasting template for custom views
  • Migrate results from the TrueSight Capacity Optimization basic reports
October 22, 20212021 enhancements

Includes the following enhancements:

  • Tree map template for custom views
  • Capacity Pools view
  • vCloud view
  • Migrate the basic reports from TrueSight Capacity Optimization
September 21, 20212021 enhancements

Includes the following enhancements:

  • Queuing networking models
  • Migration toolkit

  • Out-of-the-box capacity views for vSphere infrastructure and virtual machines

  • Simplified installation of additional packages

  • ETL module enhancements

August 23, 20212021 enhancements

Includes the following enhancements:

  • Tags to group and filter resources
  • Composite Reports and Reports based on templates
July 27, 20212021 enhancements

Includes the following enhancements:

  • Product name is changed to Continuous Optimization
  • Updates to the Migration Simulation Settings page
  • Create reports by using existing Analyses and Models
  • Correlation analyses and extrapolation models
  • Search in Views
  • Charts in What-if Simulation
May 27, 20212021 enhancements

Includes the following enhancements:

  • What-if simulation to predict the growth of resources in Kubernetes deployments

  • Visibility into your business services by using the Business Services view

  • Simulation of the migration of your servers to the public cloud

  • Entity management

  • Out-of-the-box view for Oracle database clusters

  • Extended coverage for data collection

April 22, 20212021 enhancements

Includes the following enhancements:

  • Out-of-the-box capacity view for standalone servers

  • Enhanced ETL Development Kit

  • Notifications for Optimizer rules

  • Status page to view the ETL processing and volumes data

  • Tagging Rule Manager system task
March 20, 20212021 enhancements

Includes the following enhancements and features:

  • Optimization recommendations for Kubernetes resources
  • Recommendations for GCP VM instances
  • ETL and out-of-the-box view for IBM Cloud
  • Advanced Summary Data Mart wizard
  • Visualizations powered by BMC Helix Dashboards
  • Built on the next-generation BMC Helix Portal
  • Common user management service
  • Ability to import and export views
  • Common page to download all product components
  • Ability to search the online documentation from the Self-help pane
  • ETL to import data from VMware vCloud Director 9.x and 10.x
  • Unified user interface

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Getting started

 

Quickly start using the product to manage your capacity

Orientation

Learn about the product capabilities

Onboarding and implementing

 

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

Installing

 

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

Collecting data

 

Setting up data collection

Migrating to BMC Helix Continuous Optimization

 

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

Using

 

Using the product features

Administering

 

Managing 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

Product trials

Product trials

Communities

Communities

Knowledge Base

Knowledge Base

Videos

Videos

PDFs and videos

 

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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.

FeatureTopic
Administration

Analysis

Capacity views

ETLs

Modeling

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

This topic provides a list of spaces related to Continuous Optimization.

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