• Cannot select an expiration date that is in the past to a Note.⁴⁸²⁷⁴

Virtualization Manager v4.1.3

• Current installations of Virtualization Manager cannot integrate with Storage Manger version 5.2.⁹⁵⁷⁶¹

Virtualization Manager v4.1.2

• Clusters no longer all show the same depletion date. Affected widgets: Predicted Cluster CPU Depletion, Predicted Cluster Memory Depletion, and Predicted Cluster Storage Depletion.⁹³⁹⁴⁸
• Capacity calculation results now correctly disregard storage for clusters containing only local disks.⁹⁴¹⁵⁸
• Depletion graphs now work correcty after trying to read the bandwidth of a down network interface card.⁹⁵¹⁸¹

• Fixed an issue that created unnecessary copies of customized widgets after restarting the hyper9 or tomcat6 services.⁹⁰³⁷⁸

• Datastore clusterCount properties now show the correct value.⁶⁹⁸¹⁷

• Unsorted alerts in map view now show the correct timestamp.⁸⁹⁴²⁷

• Fixed an identity-related issue with objects collected from VCenter 3.5 and earlier.⁹⁴¹³¹
• Invalid widget GUIDs no longer crash the application.⁹¹⁵⁵⁷

• Fixed an issue with log files needlessly filling up with "Cookie token index now found" messages.⁸⁹⁵²⁴
• Cluster VM Capacity trend now shows correct values.⁹¹⁰⁹²
• Fixed an issue that resulted in missing storage I/O values in capacity-related trends and widgets.⁹¹³¹⁰

Virtualization Manager v4.1

• Increased the speed of capacity planning analysis.⁷⁰⁴⁵⁹
• Fixed instance IDs displayed in Storage Paths drill down views to match those shown in the VI client.⁵⁰²⁴³
• Fixed an issue that required clearing the browser cache after configuring a Federated Collector appliance.⁴⁸²⁶⁷
• Fixed AD integration so that it no longer requires manually updating the configuration file.⁵⁹⁰²²

• Fixed the duplicate CPU% and Memory% data that was appearing in the Top-N widgets.⁸³⁴⁶²

• Added the ability to detect and identify Windows VMs with misaligned NTFS disk partitions.⁴⁸¹⁵³
• Fixed some missing CI type sorting fields in a few performance graphs.⁴⁸³⁶⁴

• Increased the robustness of the internal identity algorithms to reduce the chance of identity confusion.⁴⁸¹⁶⁴

• Added new trend "Cluster VM Total Storage Size".⁷⁹³⁸⁷

• Added integration with SolarWinds Storage Manager.⁷⁰⁰⁷³
• Fixed the missing attribute names in the data export function.⁷⁹⁵⁰¹
• Moved the Dashboard selection, creation, and report commands to the top of the Dashboard page.⁶⁵⁷⁵⁸
• Removed the "add to list" action of clicking items in a widget. Clicking an item now displays the details page of the clicked item.⁶⁶⁷⁴¹
• Added a map widget.⁶⁶⁷⁵³
• Updated the visual style of the map views.⁶⁶⁷⁵³
• Updated the visual style of the chart views.⁶⁷³³⁹
• Fixed charts so that they no longer occasionally highlight the wrong line when you move the pointer over a statistic type.⁶²⁰⁹⁰

Virtualization Manager v4.0.5

• Fixed an issue in the "VM memory allocation ratio" trend that incorrectly returned zero values.⁸²⁶²⁸
• Fixed an issue that could lead to excessive memory consumption in monitoring environments containing a large number of elements. Symptoms included instability and extreme sluggishness.⁷²²³⁷
• Increased the speed of indexing by multi-threading.⁷⁹⁹⁰³
• Added an option to exclude sample values from the indexing to greatly speed up the indexing in monitoring environments containing a large number of data stores.⁷⁹⁹⁰³
  To enable this option:
  1. Log on to the vMan administration web site at https://ipaddress:5480
  2. Click the SolarWinds Mgmt tab.
  3. Click Edit Configuration.
  4. Select hyper9-config.xml and then click Edit.
  5. Add the following entry and then click Save:
     <entry key="Configure.System Properties.indexAssociatedConfigSamples">false</entry>
  6. Click the System tab and then click Restart.

Virtualization Manager v4.0.4

• When adding new users, the Local Auth option is now set by default so that new users created with the default settings are not mistakenly assumed to be Active Directory accounts.⁶⁴⁷⁸⁰

• Fixed an issue in the "Alerts for VMs with Overallocated Memory" that returned faulty recommendations.⁶⁶²⁰⁶
• Phantom datastores no longer provide clickable links to details that do not exist.⁶⁸⁸⁵⁷

• Fixed an issue that could make the SolarWinds Mgmt tab disappear from the Management UI, https://applianceIP:5480. ^{63126, 63156}
  If the tab is still missing after you upgrade, log out of the Management UI and then clear your web browser cache.
• Fixed an issue with the licensing mechanism that prevented valid appliance upgrades.⁶⁵⁴¹⁸
• NTP server support has been added to help you maintain the time synchronization requirement of Active Directory servers.⁶⁸²⁸⁶
  If the NTP server support is missing after you upgrade, log out of the Management UI and then clear your web browser cache.
  To configure your NTP settings:
  1. Log on to the Management UI, https://applianceIP:5480
  2. Click the SolarWinds Mgmt tab.
  3. If you have upgraded and the NTP Status is blank, click Restart ntpd.
  4. Click Edit Configuration.
  5. Select ntp.conf and then click Edit.
• Trial licenses should no longer expire prematurely.⁷²⁶³⁴

• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused the IO Depletion graph not to appear even if there was valid data.⁶²²⁶³

• Results of 0 are now filtered out from Top-N widgets if it does not make sense to show them.⁶²³⁵¹
• Fixed an issue that created blank widgets when exporting a dashboard.⁶⁴³⁷¹

• Fixed an issue that prevented collection from some datastore IOPs.⁷³⁴⁵⁶
• Fixed an issue that could cause a deadlock situation in the collection cycle.⁷⁶⁵³⁵
• Fixed an issue with the Datastore IO Latency chart that was instead displaying datastore throughput.⁶⁵⁶⁹⁸
• The clusterCount property now returns the correct value for datastores.⁶⁶¹⁵⁸
• Added support for IPv6 addressing. IPv6 addresses should no longer halt the collection tasks.⁶⁶⁷³¹
• The units for totalStorageSizeProvisioned and totalStorageSizeUsed are now correctly reported in bytes.⁷¹⁴¹⁶

• The metrics Latency Rate and Latency Rate Peak are now Latency and Latency Peak.⁷⁰⁰⁵¹

• Cluster and Host IOP per Data Store charts now correctly show up to 8 datastore lines in the drill-down information.⁷⁴³⁷³
• Fixed an issue with the cluster IOPs not being equal to the sum of its hosts' IOPs.⁶³⁵⁰¹
• The Net Dropped Packets Rx and Net Dropped Packets Tx graphs and drill-down views are no longer incorrectly available for virtual machines.⁶⁴⁷⁹⁹
• Net Transmitted Throughput and Net Received Throughput now have drill-down graphs for clusters, hosts, and VMs.⁷⁰⁴²⁸

Virtualization Manager v4.0

• Diagnose problems by browsing the Time Travel historical performance and topology repository.
• Capacity Planning now includes disk and network I/O, failover analysis for multiple redundant systems, and options to ignore specific resources.
• The performance analyzer chart can now stack different data types on the same chart and overlay alerts, notes, and configuration collections schedules along the time line. Drill-down graphs allow for chart stacking options.
• An included vSphere 4.0 plug-in adds a SolarWinds menu to the vSphere client that can launch SolarWinds Virtualization Manager modules from vCenter inventory items.
• Alerts include recommendations to help you resolve issues now and prevent them in the future.
• Active links from alert pages provide context-specific information about virtual objects related to the alert.
• Added 18 new trends, including Thin Provisioned Reclaimable Space and Amazon EC2 Total Cost by Folder or by Resource Pool
• Added two new dashboards:
  • Host and Cluster Health
  • Showback (usage by folder and resource pool)
• Added 12 new alerts, including:
  • Datastore Excessive VM Log Files
  • Host Bus Resets
  • Host Command Aborts
  • Host Network Utilization High
  • Host to Datastore Latency
  • VM Disk Latency
  • VM Memory Under-allocated
  • VM Phantom Snapshot Files
  • VM Potential Unused CPU
• Search for VMs with misaligned disk volumes. Guests running Windows 2003 or earlier may have misaligned VMFS disk partitions compromising performance.
• Detailed object view now includes CPU, memory, and IO stats along with disk volume capacity and usage.
• Clicking column headings sorts search results.
• NFS and VSCSI statistics no longer requires SSH for ESX 4.1 hosts.
• Storage path statistic graphs are available for host objects.
• Performance graphs now include peak statistics.
• New authentication configuration page lets you configure AD authentication for your users without editing configuration files.
• Two external actions are now included that can insert the top CPU or memory consuming processes into a note that can appear in a chart overlay.
• Search strings can now be constructed with Attribute filters that include any instances instead of single instances.
• Widgets in one dashboard can now be copied to another.
• Reports can now be scheduled to report their results as an HTML-based email message for convenient viewing on a smart phone. The e-mail message also contains a PDF attachment for desktop viewing.
• Top-N widgets can now contain more than 14 elements.

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