HPE Morpheus VM Essentials Software Documentation¶

v8.0.5 Release Notes¶

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API & CLI

Added API endpoints to support compute device passthrough from hosts to HVM workloads

HPE Storage Integration Pack for VM Essentials

The plugin provides a uniform data management platform that natively extends to HPE Alletra MP offerings. The HPE Storage Integration Pack for VM Essentials provides an interface to view the system details along with raw capacity utilization, alerts, and storage pools details. For more information, see the release notes.
Added Summary tab, which provides information on the storage system details such as model name, serial number, along with the raw capacity utilization details shown in both numerical form and a visual progress bar.
Added Alerts tab, which displays alert messages with severity categorized as Major, Critical, and Fatal; type of alerts; and the timestamps at which the alert messages are triggered.
Added Pools tab, which displays the total provisioned storage capacity for the Common Provisioning Groups (CPGs), along with the visual representation of the utilized capacity status shown as both numeric value and as a percentage.

HVM

Added GPU passthrough support with pooling. Any detached GPU is considered available to the pool. A Service Plan designates whether a workload needs a GPU and removing the VM will release the GPU
Added passthrough support for PCI and NVME devices from hypervisor hosts to HVM workloads. Added devices tab at the host and VM levels to support this feature. Devices are managed through the Actions menu for each device within the host devices tab
Added passthrough support for USB devices. USB devices can be viewed from the devices tab on the host detail. Devices can be detached from the host and attached to VMs. Devices are then viewable from the VM devices tab
Added the ability to mount a cdrom ISO by reconfiguring the Instance and adding a “CD ROM” type disk. The disk image can be selected from an ISO-type Virtual Images currently managed by VM Essentials
HVM Cluster Layout version 1.2 is now out of beta and into general availability
When reverting to a snapshot, any child snapshots of the selected one are kept rather than being deleted

Integrations

Added an integrations section at Administration > Integrations so administrators can manage plugins and distributed workers associated with VM Essentials

Plugins

Backup plugins can now be designed with the option to restore to a current Instance or restore to a new Instance

Security

UI

The global processes dropdown in the main menu bar (next to the global search field) now always shows the five most recent processes rather than automatically dismissing any inactive processes

API & CLI

Cloning HVM cluster Instances from VM Essentials API no longer fails when the Instance has cdrom
Fixed 500 errors thrown under certain conditions when adding a Cluster worker via VM Essentials API

Clusters

Fixed the storage tab of the cluster detail page to prevent orphaned disk volume records from accumulating

Console

HVM

Fixed a bug that caused VMs stopped for an extended period to be removed from hypervisor hosts

Instances

Converting to managed multiple times in very quick succession (such as via automated means) can no longer create multiple Instances from a brownfield VM

Appliance

Agent & Node Packages

Alletra MP Storage Plugin

No support for iface for Software iSCSI
VM Migration to other hosts may fail under heavy write-iops load on the VM. Recommendation is to reduce write-iops prior to migration
Virtual images created without a specified disk capacity will fail to provision if the associated disk size is smaller than the minimum required
VM in shutdown state will not migrate to the new node until it’s powered on
If the default image store is created after the virtual image is uploaded, it may cause issues with VM provisioning. Workaround is to ensure the store is created prior to virtual image creation
Reconfigure Instance with HPE Alletra MP datastore fails if there is an attached CD ROM. Workaround is to delete the CD Drive before performing any subsequent actions for reconfigure
Mixed datastore type is not supported for snapshot related features. Workaround is to specify the Alletra datastore by changing the disk type to Standard, selecting the datastore, and changing back to CD ROM

Guides

Release Notes