Release Notes: Pure1 VM Analytics Collector

Collector Requirements

The Pure1 VM Analytics Collector must be deployed with the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.  Additional requirements are as follows:

• The IP addresses of the vCenter Servers to Collect from and network access to these vCenter Servers
• A username/password for the vCenter Servers being collected from with at minimum read only access
• VM Analytics Collector can collect from vCenter Servers version 5.5 and higher
• The VMware Appliance and Collector must have phonehome enabled
  • Which requires the Appliance and Collector to have network/firewall access to Pure1.
• VM Analytics supports VMFS, vVols, vSAN, and NFS datastores
• VMware Tools 10.1+ must be installed in VMs for Pure1 calculate VM Capacity metrics

Note that depending on the size of your environment, you may need to increase resources for the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.

Resolved Issues

• The application would crash if a vDisk has storage but it is not backed by a datastore.

Collector Requirements

The Pure1 VM Analytics Collector must be deployed with the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.  Additional requirements are as follows:

• The IP addresses of the vCenter Servers to Collect from and network access to these vCenter Servers
• A username/password for the vCenter Servers being collected from with at minimum read only access
• VM Analytics Collector can collect from vCenter Servers version 5.5 and higher
• The VMware Appliance and Collector must have phonehome enabled
  • Which requires the Appliance and Collector to have network/firewall access to Pure1.
• VM Analytics supports VMFS, vVols, vSAN, and NFS datastores
• VMware Tools 10.1+ must be installed in VMs for Pure1 calculate VM Capacity metrics

Note that depending on the size of your environment, you may need to increase resources for the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.

What's New?

• Upgrades various packages.

Collector Requirements

The Pure1 VM Analytics Collector must be deployed with the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.  Additional requirements are as follows:

• The IP addresses of the vCenter Servers to Collect from and network access to these vCenter Servers
• A username/password for the vCenter Servers being collected from with at minimum read only access
• VM Analytics Collector can collect from vCenter Servers version 5.5 and higher
• The VMware Appliance and Collector must have phonehome enabled
  • Which requires the Appliance and Collector to have network/firewall access to Pure1.
• VM Analytics supports VMFS, vVols, vSAN, and NFS datastores
• VMware Tools 10.1+ must be installed in VMs for Pure1 calculate VM Capacity metrics

Note that depending on the size of your environment, you may need to increase resources for the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.

Resolved Issues

• The application would crash if a host has no Host Bus Adapter (HBA).

Collector Requirements

The Pure1 VM Analytics Collector must be deployed with the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.  Additional requirements are as follows:

• The IP addresses of the vCenter Servers to Collect from and network access to these vCenter Servers
• A username/password for the vCenter Servers being collected from with at minimum read only access
• VM Analytics Collector can collect from vCenter Servers version 5.5 and higher
• The VMware Appliance and Collector must have phonehome enabled
  • Which requires the Appliance and Collector to have network/firewall access to Pure1.
• VM Analytics supports VMFS, vVols, vSAN, and NFS datastores
• VMware Tools 10.1+ must be installed in VMs for Pure1 calculate VM Capacity metrics

Note that depending on the size of your environment, you may need to increase resources for the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.

Resolved Issues

• CVE-2021-44832: Included the new release of CCM (1.8.8) that uses log4j 2.17.1 that fixes the security issue.

Collector Requirements

The Pure1 VM Analytics Collector must be deployed with the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.  Additional requirements are as follows:

• The IP addresses of the vCenter Servers to Collect from and network access to these vCenter Servers
• A username/password for the vCenter Servers being collected from with at minimum read only access
• VM Analytics Collector can collect from vCenter Servers version 5.5 and higher
• The VMware Appliance and Collector must have phonehome enabled
  • Which requires the Appliance and Collector to have network/firewall access to Pure1.
• VM Analytics supports VMFS, vVols, vSAN, and NFS datastores
• VMware Tools 10.1+ must be installed in VMs for Pure1 calculate VM Capacity metrics

Note that depending on the size of your environment, you may need to increase resources for the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.

Resolved Issues

• Panic - runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference.

Collector Requirements

The Pure1 VM Analytics Collector must be deployed with the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.  Additional requirements are as follows:

• The IP addresses of the vCenter Servers to Collect from and network access to these vCenter Servers
• A username/password for the vCenter Servers being collected from with at minimum read only access
• VM Analytics Collector can collect from vCenter Servers version 5.5 and higher
• The VMware Appliance and Collector must have phonehome enabled
  • Which requires the Appliance and Collector to have network/firewall access to Pure1.
• VM Analytics supports VMFS, vVols, vSAN, and NFS datastores
• VMware Tools 10.1+ must be installed in VMs for Pure1 calculate VM Capacity metrics

Note that depending on the size of your environment, you may need to increase resources for the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.

Resolved Issues

• Collector panics when receiving an unexpected nil value for some updates

Collector Requirements

The Pure1 VM Analytics Collector must be deployed with the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.  Additional requirements are as follows:

• The IP addresses of the vCenter Servers to Collect from and network access to these vCenter Servers
• A username/password for the vCenter Servers being collected from with at minimum read only access
• VM Analytics Collector can collect from vCenter Servers version 5.5 and higher
• The VMware Appliance and Collector must have phonehome enabled
  • Which requires the Appliance and Collector to have network/firewall access to Pure1.
• VM Analytics supports VMFS, vVols, vSAN, and NFS datastores
• VMware Tools 10.1+ must be installed in VMs for Pure1 calculate VM Capacity metrics

Note that depending on the size of your environment, you may need to increase resources for the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.

Resolved Issues

• CVE-2021-4428: Included the new release of CCM (1.8.6) that is using log4j 2.16.0 that fixes the security issue

Collector Requirements

The Pure1 VM Analytics Collector must be deployed with the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.  Additional requirements are as follows:

• The IP addresses of the vCenter Servers to Collect from and network access to these vCenter Servers
• A username/password for the vCenter Servers being collected from with at minimum read only access
• VM Analytics Collector can collect from vCenter Servers version 5.5 and higher
• The VMware Appliance and Collector must have phonehome enabled
  • Which requires the Appliance and Collector to have network/firewall access to Pure1.
• VM Analytics supports VMFS, vVols, vSAN, and NFS datastores
• VMware Tools 10.1+ must be installed in VMs for Pure1 calculate VM Capacity metrics

Note that depending on the size of your environment, you may need to increase resources for the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.

Resolved Issues

• CVE-2021-4428: Included the new release of CCM (1.8.5) that is using log4j 2.15.0 that fixes the security issue

Collector Requirements

The Pure1 VM Analytics Collector must be deployed with the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.  Additional requirements are as follows:

• The IP addresses of the vCenter Servers to Collect from and network access to these vCenter Servers
• A username/password for the vCenter Servers being collected from with at minimum read only access
• VM Analytics Collector can collect from vCenter Servers version 5.5 and higher
• The VMware Appliance and Collector must have phonehome enabled
  • Which requires the Appliance and Collector to have network/firewall access to Pure1.
• VM Analytics supports VMFS, vVols, vSAN, and NFS datastores
• VMware Tools 10.1+ must be installed in VMs for Pure1 calculate VM Capacity metrics

Note that depending on the size of your environment, you may need to increase resources for the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.

What's New?

• Enhanced logging when the collector panics

Resolved Issues

• Registration process may fail when CCM process did not start in time

Collector Requirements

The Pure1 VM Analytics Collector must be deployed with the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.  Additional requirements are as follows:

• The IP addresses of the vCenter Servers to Collect from and network access to these vCenter Servers
• A username/password for the vCenter Servers being collected from with at minimum read only access
• VM Analytics Collector can collect from vCenter Servers version 5.5 and higher
• The VMware Appliance and Collector must have phonehome enabled
  • Which requires the Appliance and Collector to have network/firewall access to Pure1.
• VM Analytics supports VMFS, vVols, vSAN, and NFS datastores
• VMware Tools 10.1+ must be installed in VMs for Pure1 calculate VM Capacity metrics

Note that depending on the size of your environment, you may need to increase resources for the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.

Resolved Issues

• VMA Fails Collection after vCenter upgrade to 7.0 U3

Collector Requirements

The Pure1 VM Analytics Collector must be deployed with the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.  Additional requirements are as follows:

• The IP addresses of the vCenter Servers to Collect from and network access to these vCenter Servers
• A username/password for the vCenter Servers being collected from with at minimum read only access
• VM Analytics Collector can collect from vCenter Servers version 5.5 and higher
• The VMware Appliance and Collector must have phonehome enabled
  • Which requires the Appliance and Collector to have network/firewall access to Pure1.
• VM Analytics supports VMFS, vVols, vSAN, and NFS datastores
• VMware Tools 10.1+ must be installed in VMs for Pure1 calculate VM Capacity metrics

Note that depending on the size of your environment, you may need to increase resources for the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.

What's New?

In an effort to support large vSphere environments, the VM Analytics collector now offers scale and speed improvements including:

• Replaced full topology collection with incremental updates
• Improved performance with batched metrics collection
• Performance gains in overall collection time (6x to 7x)
• Supports environment sizes up to 16,000 VMs

Collector Requirements

The Pure1 VM Analytics Collector must be deployed with the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.  Additional requirements are as follows:

• The IP addresses of the vCenter Servers to Collect from and network access to these vCenter Servers
• A username/password for the vCenter Servers being collected from with at minimum read only access
• VM Analytics Collector can collect from vCenter Servers version 5.5 and higher
• The VMware Appliance and Collector must have phonehome enabled
  • Which requires the Appliance and Collector having network/firewall access to Pure1
• VM Analytics supports VMFS, vVols, vSAN, and NFS datastores
• VMware Tools 10.1+ must be installed in VMs for Pure1 calculate VM Capacity metrics

Note that depending on the size of your environment, you may need to increase resources for the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.

Resolved Issues

• Backend Bug Fixes

Collector Requirements

The Pure1 VM Analytics Collector must be deployed with the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.  Additional requirements are as follows:

• The IP addresses of the vCenter Servers to Collect from and network access to these vCenter Servers
• A username/password for the vCenter Servers being collected from with at minimum read only access
• VM Analytics Collector can collect from vCenter Servers version 5.5 and higher
• The VMware Appliance and Collector must have phonehome enabled
  • Which requires the Appliance and Collector having network/firewall access to Pure1
• VM Analytics supports VMFS, vVols, vSAN, and NFS datastores
• VMware Tools 10.1+ must be installed in VMs for Pure1 calculate VM Capacity metrics

Note that depending on the size of your environment, you may need to increase resources for the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.

Resolved Issues

• Backend bug fixes

Collector Requirements

The Pure1 VM Analytics Collector must be deployed with the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.  Additional requirements are as follows:

• The IP addresses of the vCenter Servers to Collect from and network access to these vCenter Servers
• A username/password for the vCenter Servers being collected from with at minimum read only access
• VM Analytics Collector can collect from vCenter Servers version 5.5 and higher
• The VMware Appliance and Collector must have phonehome enabled
  • Which requires the Appliance and Collector having network/firewall access to Pure1
• VM Analytics supports VMFS, vVols, vSAN, and NFS datastores
• VMware Tools 10.1+ must be installed in VMs for Pure1 calculate VM Capacity metrics

Note that depending on the size of your environment, you may need to increase resources for the Pure Storage VMware Appliance.

What's New?

• Added Support for Capacity Reporting
  • VM Analytics now supports VM and Datastore capacity metrics for Used Raw, Used %, and Churn.
• OVA deployment cleanup
  • The puresetup vm-analytics-collector command completes the OVA installation. Used only if the OVA installation did not complete during the Deploy OVF Template... step in vSphere.
• Collector Pure1 registration
  • Register the collector with Pure1 using the purevmanalytics register command and the authorization key from the Pure1 Manage the VM Topology > Collector Configuration page.
• Support bundle command
  • Prepare logs to send to Pure Technical Services or to view log contents: puresupport bundle
• New upgrade procedure (to upgrade to future collector releases after v3.0.0)
  • Run the puresw list command to check for available OVA and collector updates.
    Run the pureswupgrade start vm-analytics-collector command to perform updates.