BMC Helix Continuous Optimization 25.2


BMC Helix Continuous Optimization 25.2

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.

Release notes and notices Updated 28 Apr 2025

Learn what's new or changed for BMC Helix Continuous Optimization 25.2, including new features, urgent issues, and documentation updates.

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Summary

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April 22, 2025

Enhancements available in 25.2:

  • Migrate monthly aggregated data from TrueSight Capacity Optimization
  • Retrieve event details by using the Events API
  • Analyze VMware power consumption metrics
  • Exclude virtual NICs from the Gateway VIS file parser
  • Filter entities in the AWS ETL
  • Skip Databricks resources in the Microsoft Azure ETL
  • Enhanced Nutanix - Prism API Extractor
  • Include the metadata information for the entity in the Summary Data Mart wizard
  • Use Microsoft Windows 2025 for the Continuous Optimization Agent
  • Enhanced Storage All-in-One ETL
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February 20, 2025

Enhancements available in 25.1.01:

  • Generate reports by using the dashboard definitions from BMC Helix Dashboards
  • Use project tags and hierarchies for Nutanix ETL
  • Additional time filter in the Summary data mart wizard
  • Support for aggregating configuration metrics in the VMware vCenter ETL

January 22, 2025

Enhancements available in 25.1:

  • View BMC Helix Discovery blueprint services in BMC Helix Continuous Optimization
  • Specify the Last value statistics for performance metrics in the Summary Data Mart wizard
  • Enhanced Kubernetes view
  • Use SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15SP6 for the Gateway Server
  • Enhanced Storage System view
  • ETL module enhancements 

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Getting started

Quickly start using the product to manage your capacity.

Product-overview

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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PDFs and videos

Get a list of all the videos and a PDF version of the BMC Helix Continuous Optimization documentation.

Related documentation

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