Overview
Welcome to the release notes for XtremIO enhancements for Live Optics. To avail of the most recent releases, please ensure that you download the latest version of the Live Optics collector to get the latest updates and enhancements. We encourage you to follow this page to receive email notifications when this document is updated.
05/9/2022
New Features
Live Optics has made major enhancements to XtremIO in Live Optics. Users now have the capability to select volumes in an XIO cluster and then add them up to provide a performance and capacity analysis.
Feature/Effort Key Takeaways
- Search and select volumes
- Process (calculate) the selection
- Show point-in-time performance stats for the selection
- Show capacity information for the selection
- Decipher and properly handle volumes vs. volume groups
- Show mapped volume counts
Known Issues
No issues are currently known.
Known Limitations
No limitations are currently known.
10/13/2021 | XtremIO Fix
Updated Features
Live Optics has done some major work on XtremIO. This is the release of XtremIO Powerpoint migration and Excel updates to improve project processing success rates.
Known Issues
No issues are currently known
Known Limitations
No limitations are currently known
09/24/2018 |
New Features/Fixes
This section list current releases and updates.
- Projects with missing performance data previously crashed. Now those projects will flow through to completion, although with limited data in the reports. A new slide indicates to the user that the array was unable to provide the required performance data. This feature is primarily for users who are using XMS 4.0.2 or lower.
- Corrected the way volumes are calculated resulting in a more accurate result.
Known Issues
This section lists the known issues in the latest version of Live Optics for XtremIO
- XtremIO systems running XMS 4.02 or below are sometimes unable to provide performance information to Live Optics. Users requiring performance information must update to XMS 4.2.1-7 or higher. It is recommended that you deploy the latest XMS 6.x code to take advantage of the HTML5 GUI. Please open a support case with Dell EMC tech support to initiate the upgrade process.
- Issue with Excel, where the project will complete, and the user is notified via email, but the Excel spreadsheet takes an hour or more time to complete and be ready for download. We are working on a dual status to be shown that informs the user of the Excel sheet status.
Known Limitations
The current known limitations of XtremIO are;
- Browser must be refreshed to see the project updates. Once the project is uploaded to the Web Portal, and the user must refresh the page in order to see the updated project status.
- Internet connection is required
- The Live Optics Collector services must be allowed through the user firewall to run a successful collection.
01/25/2018 |
New Features/Fixes
This section list current releases and updates.
- Per cluster slides are now broken out to show individual cluster information
- Change to Alert slides adds source data
- Update to data analysis in "5 Year Growth Projections" slide
Known Issues
This section lists the known issues in the latest version of Live Optics for XtremIO
- Issue with Excel, where the project will complete, and the user is notified via email, but the Excel spreadsheet takes an hour or more time to complete and be ready for download. We are working on a dual status to be shown that informs the user of the Excel sheet status.
Known Limitations
The current known limitations of XtremIO are;
- Browser must be refreshed to see the project updates. Once the project is uploaded to the Web Portal, and the user must refresh the page in order to see the updated project status.
- Internet connection is required
- The Live Optics Collector services must be allowed through the user firewall to run a successful collection.
01/16/2018 |
New Features/Fixes
This section lists releases and updates.
- Live Optics collector update allows XtremIO collection to be cancelled inside of software
- .NET collector: XtremIO cancelling collection now terminate the collection
Known Issues
This section lists the known issues in the latest version of Live Optics for XtremIO
- Issue with Excel, where the project will complete, and the user is notified via email, but the Excel spreadsheet takes an hour or more time to complete and be ready for download. We are working on a dual status to be shown that informs the user of the Excel sheet status.
Known Limitations
The current known limitations of XtremIO are;
- Browser must be refreshed to see the project updates. Once the project is uploaded to the Web Portal, and the user must refresh the page in order to see the updated project status.
- Internet connection is required
- The Live Optics Collector services must be allowed through the user firewall to run a successful collection.