VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon 6.5.1

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What's New in this Release

Horizon 7.4 support -- Horizon 7.4 ships Desktop Agent 6.5.1.

Resolved Issues

The following issues have been fixed in this release:

• AV 2.13 support – Failure to add AV Manager 2.13 into the broker agent setting utility with error message “Failed in adding the app volume manager into monitoring list.”
• Functionality issue – Duplicate child objects under a different RDS server.
• Performance issue – The broker agent consumes a large amount of memory if there are future time events in the Event DB.
• Performance issue – Delete the application crash metric.

Upgrade Notes

This section contains notes of the upgrade processes. For complete upgrade instructions, see the vRealize Operations for Horizon Installation document.

• You can upgrade from vRealize Operations for Horizon 6.3, 6.4 to vRealize Operations for Horizon 6.5.1. If you have vRealize Operations for Horizon 6.0, you must first upgrade to vRealize Operations for Horizon 6.1 before upgrading to vRealize Operations for Horizon 6.5.1.
• The upgrade process retains the dashboards, views, and reports from vRealize Operations for Horizon 6.1 and adds new dashboards, views, and reports. Old dashboards, views, and reports are identified by the View prefix, and the new dashboards, views, and reports are prefixed with Horizon. You can remove old dashboards, views, and reports.
• After the adapter upgrade, enable port numbers 3099, 3100, and 3101, if not already enabled. Edit the /opt/vmware/etc/vmware-vcops-firewall.conf file in vRealize Operations Manager.
  1. Add the command: TCPPORTS="$TCPPORTS 3099:3101" after TCPPORTS="$TCPPORTS 3091:3094" in /opt/vmware/etc/vmware-vcops-firewall.conf.
  2. Restart the firewall: /etc/init.d/vmware-vcops-firewall restart.
  3. Check the status of the firewall: /etc/init.d/vmware-vcops-firewall status.
• Due to an existing limitation, you must restart the vRealize Operations Manager cluster after the upgrade for the process to complete. Or restart the remote collector: Run service vmware-vcops --full-restart.
• Sessions that were active during upgrade might not report data after the upgrade is complete. Restart the desktop agent for the active sessions that are not reporting.
• During the Broker Agent upgrade process from 6.3, 6.4 to 6.5.1, vRealize Operations for Horizon stops the broker agent service, preserves the configuration, uninstalls the Broker agent, and installs the new version of Broker Agent. When the Broker Agent configuration utility launches, on the first screen of the wizard, you must re-enter and pair the vRealize Operations Manager IP address/FQDN  IP and the pairing credentials. The subsequent screen contains the data populated from the preserved configuration file of the previous installation, including data such as Horizon Credentials and Events DB configurations. In case of upgrade, the Broker Agent service is not started automatically. On the Configure The Broker Agent Service screen of the Broker Agent Configuration Utility wizard, restart the broker agent service, click Next, then Finish to complete the wizard.
• TLS 1.2 is enforced by default in vRealize Operations for Horizon Adapter 6.5.1. The Adapter cannot communicate with older desktop Agents running with TLS 1.0, such as vRealize Operations for Horizon Desktop Agent 6.0/6.1. VDI Pools, RDS Pools, or Apps running with older desktop Agents are monitored by default. To monitor pools running with older desktop Agents, administrators need to log on to vRealize Operations Manager collector node and add enforcesslprotocols = false to the /usr/lib/vmware-vcops/user/plugins/inbound/V4V_adapter3/work/msgserver.properties file. Restart the Horizon Adapter instance. You might need to pair the Broker Agent and Horizon Adapter instance.

Internationalization (I18N) Support

The vRealize Operations for Horizon user interface and documentation are available in English, Japanese, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Spanish.

Known Issues

Consult the vRealize Operations for Horizon 6.5 release notes to see the list of known issues.