Releases: sexibytes/sexigraf
St. Olga
Today we are proud to announce the release of the tenth SexiGraf version: 0.99j codename “St. Olga”
In this new version, we’ve added the "official" support for the new vSphere and vSAN 8.2 APIs and Veeam Backup & Replication v11+.- New features
- Veeam Backup & Replication support
- VM and ESX metrics auto merge cross-cluster (aka DstVmMigratedEvent VROPS feature)
- HBA paths count
- PowerShell core 7.2.17 LTS
- PowerCLI 13.2.1
- Grafana 8.5.9 (not 8.5.27 because of a bug introduced in v8.5.10)
- Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
- Enhancements and fixes
If you are new to SexiGraf, the latest appliance is already available on the Quickstart page.
Victory Mine
Today we are proud to announce the release of the ninth SexiGraf version: 0.99i codename “Victory Mine”
In this new version, we’ve added the "official" support for the new vSphere and vSAN 8.0 APIs and also the vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) full support.
- New features
- vSAN 8 ESA support
- Datastore inventory
- DRS Score dashboard
- PowerShell core 7.2.7 LTS
- PowerCLI 13.0
- Grafana 8.5.15
- Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS
- Enhancements and fixes
- Auto HTTPS redirect
- Enhanced guestinfo.ovfEnv support
- VM bootTime added in inventory to quickly identify HA restarted VMs
- ESX serial number (ServiceTag) added inventory
- Graphite powershell injection performance increased (Thanks to Pedro Lucas)
- Various bug fix
As stated in the previous release notes, SexiGraf now only comes in new ova appliance, no more patches (unless extreme emergency).
To migrate, you have to use the Export/Import feature to pull out your data from your previous SexiGraf appliance and push it to a new one.
If you are new to SexiGraf, the latest appliance is already available on the Quickstart page.
Highway 17
Today we are proud to announce the release of the eighth SexiGraf version: 0.99h codename “Highway 17”
As we stated in the previous release notes, we had to move from Perl SDK to PowerShell SDK which also allowed us to step up to the latest Ubuntu LTS version and making the appliance much lighter.
We also had to finally move from the QueryVsanStatistics method of HostVsanInternalSystem to the “new” VsanPerfQueryPerf of the VsanPerformanceManager for scalability reasons. Unfortunately, this means the intervals of the famous vSAN monitor dashboard is now 5 minutes. We sincerely apologize for this but as the vSAN customers increase and the fact that we couldn’t go above 50 hosts per vCenter, even with parallelization, it was not acceptable anymore.
The good news is we managed to monitor 200+ BIG vSAN clusters (most of them stretched) in a single appliance:
The bad news is because of the massive change of data format, we couldn’t reuse all the stats history (i.e. latency, iops, bandwidth, caches rate, congestion and oio), so vSAN performance metrics will be LOST during this migration. And it doesn’t support vSAN 5.5 and 6.0 so if, somehow, you still got those versions, you might want to stick to SexiGraf 0.99g until you upgrade.
In this new version, we’ve also added the “official” support for the new vSphere and vSAN 7.0 U3 APIs.
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New features
- Powershell replaces Perl for VMware metrics collect
- vSAN SMART Stats
- vSAN Monitor Network
- New VM/ESX inventory
- PowerShell core 7.2.1
- PowerCLI 12.5.0
- Grafana 8.4.4
- Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
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Enhancements and fixes
- xvMotion count
- “dead” VM count (orphaned, invalid, inaccessible, etc..)
- BroStats dashboard replaces FlambX
- Purge script only cleanup data if nothing has been updated in the folder
- Log split by vCenter
- NTP via vmtools enabled by default
- Stun collector killer
- vSphere Replication events collected
- Various bug fix
As stated in the previous release notes, SexiGraf now only comes in new ova appliance, no more patches (unless extreme emergency).
To migrate, you have to use the Export/Import feature to pull out your data from your previous SexiGraf appliance and push it to a new one.
If you are new to SexiGraf, the latest appliance is already available on the Quickstart page.
Ravenholm
Today we are proud to announce the release of the seventh SexiGraf version: 0.99g codename “Ravenholm”
In this new version, we’ve added the “official” support for the new vSphere and vSAN 7.0 U1 APIs.
Since VMware announced the depreciation of Perl SDK, we’ve included Powershell and PowerCLI core in the SexiGraf appliance and started to work on code-switching from Perl.
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New features
- Support for Unmanaged ESXi (no vCenter)
- ESX Hardware Sensors
- Grafana 7.3.x
- Graphite 1.1.x
- Support for pfSense (via Telegraf plugin)
- Support for S.M.A.R.T. data (via custom script)
- Based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Netdata, Apache scoreboard and graphite carbon dashboard to monitor your SexiGraf appliance
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Enhancements and fixes
- ESX memory overhead metric
- svmotion count per cluster
- vmdk count per datastore
- VM IO wait metric
- VMware Multi Cluster Usage dashboard redesign
- VMware Cluster Multi ESX LiteStats redesign
- New VMware All Standalone ESX VM Stats dashboard
- VMware vCenter Bad Events alerting dashboard
- Dashboards are now arranged in folders
- New carbon cache design for better scalability (200000+ VMs)
- Various bug fix
As stated in the previous release notes, SexiGraf now only comes in new ova appliance, no more patches (unless extreme emergency).
To migrate, you have to use the Export/Import feature to pull out your data from your previous SexiGraf appliance and push it to a new one.
If you are new to SexiGraf, the latest appliance is already available on the Quickstart page.
Traptown
Today we are proud to announce the release of the sixth SexiGraf update: 0.99f codename “Traptown”
In this new version, we’ve added the support of the new vSAN 6.7U1 (https://code.vmware.com/apis/398/vsan) API (included in the 0.99e1 emergency patch).
New features
• SuperStats
• vCenter Bad Events
• Early Storage Pod (aka Datastore Cluster) support
• Grafana 4.6.5
Enhancements and fixes
• vSAN 6.7 Update 1 API fix
• Host CPU latency metric
• Offline Inventory and vSAN puller speed enhancement
• virtualExtent file type to identify vSAN and VVOL usage in the Datastore Distribution dashboards.
• Added overcommit metric in VMware All Clusters VM Stats dashboard
• Added average vm left metrics for Multi Cluster Capacity Planning dashboard
• Various bug fix
To upgrade your existing appliance get the 0.99f SexiGraf Update Package and use it in the Package Updater (you won’t lost any data of course). The update process is the same since 0.99a so you can watch the 0.99a upgrade recorded demo if you need help.
This update will ONLY apply if you’re running 0.99e “White Forest” version.
Please reload your browser AFTER the update has finished.
If you are new to SexiGraf, the latest appliance is already available on the Quickstart page.
This the last SexiGraf update package. Starting from now, we’ll only publish new ova packages and you’ll have to use the data export/import feature to migrate your data and settings. We understand that this may be inconvenient but it’ll allow us to deliver a more up to date product more often.
White Forest
Today we are proud to announce the release of the fifth SexiGraf update: 0.99e codename "White Forest"
In this new version, we’ve added the support of the new vSphere 6.7 & vSAN 6.7 APIs.
New features
- SexiGraf data Export & Import
- vmhba traffic in cluster dashboards
- VM network usage (bandwidth)
- VM disk usage (bandwidth)
- vCenter Active Sessions (per user)
Enhancements and fixes
- VSAN Resync dashboard boost (per reason)
- Network errors and dropped counters
- Early HTTPS support
- Wrong mem.allocated (aka vRAM) value fix
- Various bug fix
Blog post is available on http://www.sexigraf.fr/you-are-now-using-version-0-99e-white-forest/
To upgrade your existing appliance go get the SexiGraf Update Package and use it in the Package Updater (you won’t lost any data of course). The update process is the same since 0.99a so you can watch the 0.99a upgrade recorded demo if you need help.
This update will ONLY apply if you’re running 0.99d "Nova Prospekt" version.
If you are new to SexiGraf, the latest appliance is already available on the Quickstart page.
Nova Prospekt
Today we are very proud to announce the release of the fourth SexiGraf update: 0.99d codename “Nova Prospekt”
In this new version, we’ve added the support of the new vSphere 6.5 & vSAN 6.6 APIs. We also embed the very up to date Grafana 4.3 and all the Debian 8.8 packages upgrades for security concerns.
New features
- Multi Cluster Top N VM Snapshot (many thanks to Jo for this great idea)
- All|Multi Datastore Usage Distribution
- Multi Cluster vCPU pCPU
- All|Multi Cluster Top N VM Latency
- Multi Cluster Top N VMFS Latency
- SAN Monitor 2nd FTT
- VSAN Monitor “66” (resyncRead & client.cachestats)
- VSAN Disk Utilization
- New All Cluster Top N VM Stats (featuring CPU Ready, snapshots)
Enhancements and fixes
- vCPU/pCPU ratio in (Multi) Cluster FullStats
- Power usage in (Multi) Cluster FullStats
- ESX hostname in VSAN NAA Latency dashboard
- Allocated vRAM in (Multi) Cluster FullStats
- VM & Cluster dashboard links in Offline Inventory *
- VM “blue” folder path in Offline Inventory *
- 120d Auto Purge
- Various bug fix
Blog post is available on http://www.sexigraf.fr/welcome-to-nova-prospekt/
Because of its size and unlike the previous ones, the 0.99d update is distributed as an iso file that you’ll need to mount into your existing SexiGraf VM to launch the embedded update script. But don’t worry, we made it easy as always:
Download the update iso file: http://files.sexigraf.fr/SexiUpdate099d.iso
Citadel
Today we are proud to announce the release of the third SexiGraf update: 0.99c codename “Citadel”
In this new version, we’ve added the support of the new VSAN 6.2 API but also FreeNAS and Windows!
New features
- VSAN Space Usage Report
- FreeNAS SexiPanel
- Windows SexiPanel
- VMware VSAN AF Monitor
- Multi VSAN Monitor
Enhancements and fixes
- VSAN witness support removed (no useful stats)
- T10 support in VSAN NAA Latency dashboard
- Handle PerformanceManager spikes
- Various bug fix
- OVF properties support
Xen
Today we are proud to announce the release of the second SexiGraf update: 0.99b1 codename "Xen"
New features
- vSphere Top N VM Stats
- vSphere Top N VM Overcommit
- VSAN Resync
- VSAN NAA Latency
- VSAN DiskGroup Capacity
Enhancements and fixes
- vCenter credentials validation
- Multiple puller run lock
- VSAN witness support
- VSAN SSD Stats dashboard enhancement
- Various bug fix