Documentation forVirtualization Manager
Monitoring virtual environments is a key capability of Hybrid Cloud Observability Advanced and is also available in a standalone module, Virtualization Manager (VMAN). Hybrid Cloud Observability Advanced and VMAN are built on the self-hosted SolarWinds Platform.

Virtualization Manager 2023.3 release notes

Release date: July 25, 2023

Here's what's new in Virtualization Manager 2023.3.

Virtualization Manager runs on the SolarWinds Platform.

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New features and improvements in VMAN

Virtualization Manager 2023.3 includes the new features in version 2023.3 of the SolarWinds Platform.

For information about new features and fixes in the SolarWinds Platform, see the SolarWinds Platform 2023.3 Release Notes.

Fixes

Virtualization Manager 2023.3 includes the fixes in version 2023.3 of the SolarWinds Platform.

For information about new features and fixes in the SolarWinds Platform, see the SolarWinds Platform 2023.3 Release Notes.

Case number Description
01151074 Removed agents no longer cause errant log entries.
01224645, 01253263 Errors during database maintenance before the full-text search index has been built no longer occur.
01183475 Legacy syslog rules with high threshold values no longer fail to migrate.
01009464 Database maintenance time has been improved for instances with a large amount of records.

01257671, 01306754, 01327342, 01338910, 01373867, 01374679, 01388174, 01401047

 Database maintenance no longer fails with the error "Compute forecast coefficients [VIM_VirtualMachines]' System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type bigint."

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Installation or upgrade

For new installations, you can download the installation file from the product page on https://www.solarwinds.com or from the Customer Portal. For more information, see Get the installer.

For upgrades, go to Settings > My Deployment to initiate the upgrade. The SolarWinds Installer upgrades your entire deployment (all SolarWinds Platform products and any scalability engines).

For a detailed upgrade walkthrough, see the VMAN Upgrade Guide.

You must be on VMAN 2020.2.1 or later to upgrade to VMAN 2023.3. If you are on VMAN 2020.2 or earlier, first upgrade to 2020.2.6 and then upgrade to 2023.3.

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Known issues

Incorrect size shown for VMware VM snapshots

Pages and reports that show snapshot sizes for VMware VMs can sometimes be incorrect.

"Triggered by Event" widget update delay

The "Triggered by Event" widget may in some cases not show the latest event that triggered the alert.

Monitoring a VMWare vCenter via ROP (Remote Orion Poller) shows unknown status

Unknown status can be incorrectly shown when monitoring a VMWare vCenter through a Remote Orion Poller.

Incorrect AppStack data for vCenters

AppStack data for a vCenter may in some cases be displayed incorrectly when the vCenter is deployed as a virtual machine under an ESXi host that is monitored by the same vCenter.

Account limitations may not work with VIM/VMAN groups

Account limitations may not work correctly in some cases with VIM/VMAN groups.

Custom charts show irrelevant host

Custom charts for VMAN clusters may sometimes show an irrelevant host in the chart legend.

Cluster Memory Utilization alerts sometimes show incorrect host

Incorrect hosts, even ones not in the relevant cluster, can sometimes be shown in Cluster Memory Utilization alerts.

Incorrect status shown for vCenter

If VMAN's polling process has failed for any reason, the last known status for a vCenter is shown in VMAN. This could result in a normal, green status being shown for a vCenter when it shouldn't.

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End of life

Version EOL Announcements EOE Effective Dates EOL Effective Dates
2020.2.6 April 18, 2023: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement - Customers on VMAN version 2020.2.6 should begin transitioning to the latest version of VMAN. May 18, 2023: End-of-Engineering (EoE) - Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for VMAN version 2020.2.6 will no longer be actively supported by SolarWinds. May 18, 2024: End-of-Life (EoL) - SolarWinds will no longer provide techinical support for VMAN version 2020.2.6.
2020.2.5 January 18, 2023: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement - Customers on VMAN version 2020.2.5 should begin transitioning to the latest version of VMAN. February 17, 2023: End-of-Engineering (EoE) - Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for VMAN version 2020.2.5 will no longer be actively supported by SolarWinds. February 17, 2024: End-of-Life (EoL) - SolarWinds will no longer provide techinical support for VMAN version 2020.2.5.
2020.2.4 October 19, 2022: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement - Customers on VMAN version 2020.2.4 should begin transitioning to the latest version of VMAN. November 18, 2022: End-of-Engineering (EoE) - Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for VMAN version 2020.2.4 will no longer be actively supported by SolarWinds. November 18, 2023: End-of-Life (EoL) - SolarWinds will no longer provide techinical support for VMAN version 2020.2.4.
2020.2.1 October 19, 2022: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement - Customers on VMAN version 2020.2.1 should begin transitioning to the latest version of VMAN. November 18, 2022: End-of-Engineering (EoE) - Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for VMAN version 2020.2.1 will no longer be actively supported by SolarWinds. November 18, 2023: End-of-Life (EoL) - SolarWinds will no longer provide techinical support for VMAN version 2020.2.1.
2020.2 October 19, 2022: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement - Customers on VMAN version 2020.2 should begin transitioning to the latest version of VMAN. November 18, 2022: End-of-Engineering (EoE) - Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for VMAN version 2020.2 will no longer be actively supported by SolarWinds. November 18, 2023: End-of-Life (EoL) - SolarWinds will no longer provide techinical support for VMAN version 2020.2.

See the End of Life Policy for information about SolarWinds product life cycle phases. To see EoL dates for earlier VMAN versions, see VMAN release history.

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