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      VMware Management Pack Release Notes

      v 24.10.4370.0


      - Fixed: Consecutive sample CPU monitors for Host's and VM's
      - Fixed: Version number Ransomware Vulnerability Monitoring MP's

      v 24.10.4361.0


      - Fixed: Null reference bug for guest disk perf counters

      v 24.10.4359.0

      - Fixed: Updated values for security recommendations
      - Added fix for missing host performance counters

      v 24.6.4301.0


      - Fixed: Added the class icons

      v 24.6.4301.0


      - Fixed: Added the class icons

      v 24.6.4298.0


      - Fixed: Diskgroup Capacity Used monitor -> It previously used an absolute value now it uses the correct % counter
      - Change: More efficientcy changes

      v 24.4.4166.0


      - Changed: Compiled the collector to prefer x64 instead of x86

      v 24.4.4162.0


      - Fixed: Fixed console crash when a vCenter connection does not respond during license assignment refresh (null:s)

      v 24.3.4159.0


      - Added: Check during connection check for vCenter version (minimum version is 7.0 and higher)

      v 24.3.4152.0


      - Added: Logging for the configuration console
      - Added: Parallelism disabled by default for the collector

      v 24.2.4148.0


      - Fixed: The maximum xml read depth (128) has been exceeded 

      V 23.11.4107.0


      - Changed: Spelling check

      V 23.11.4104.0


      - Changed: Disabled the Opslogix Vmware Inventory and Whitelist Check Monitor

      V 23.11.4096.0


      - Added: Added the possibility to disable Tags discovery
      - Added: Included perfQuerySpec caching in the collector for faster and more efficient retrieval of performance counters
      - Changed: Disabled Parallelism on the collector

      V 23.08.4089.0


      - Fixed custom resource group bug preventing the use of a custom resource group

      V 23.06.3901.0


      - Fixed endpoint bug for split configurations

      V 23.05.3898.0


      - Query for VM Tags will timeout in VM discovery instead of crashing the VM discovery

      V 23.05.3890.0


      - Changed: Refactored the Collector for better performance
      - Changed: Refactored the Modules for better performance
      - Changed: Tested to confirm compatibility with VMware 8.0


      V 22.12.3336.0


      - Fixed: vCenter 5.5 compatibility issues during discovering
      - Fixed: Small set monitoring for the host services sometimes broke
      - Fixed: Using nordic characters will give strange chars
      - Fixed: The invalid license monitor was reporting incorrectly when using 1 vcenter connection with 2 MS servers in the resource pool
      - Added: Ransomware Vulnerability Monitoring. See "KB: Ransomware Vulnerability Monitoring" in the online knowledge base

      V 22.3.2731.0


      - Fixed: vCenter 5.5 compatibility issues during discovering
      - Fixed: Small set monitoring for the host services sometimes broke
      - Fixed: Using nordic characters will give strange chars
      - Fixed: The invalid license monitor was reporting incorrectly when using 1 vcenter connection with 2 MS servers in the resource pool
      - Added: Ransomware Vulnerability Monitoring. See "KB: Ransomware Vulnerability Monitoring" in the online knowledge base

      V 21.11.2612.0

      - Added: Warning box when you enable the split option
      - Added: In the support folder from software bundle we have added an debug management pack that will gather Opslogix related debug events when debug is enabled
      - Added: We now monitor and alert when a Host is put into Standby Mode
      - Added: We now monitor and alert when a Host is put into Quarantine Mode
      - Added: We now monitor and alert when a Host is put into Maintenance Mode
      - Added: We now put the SCOM ESX host target into/out Maintenance when the Host is put into/out Maintenance mode in vCenter. (by default disabled)
      - Added: (Over)Commitment monitoring based on powered off virtual machines (by default disabled)
      - Added: (Over)Commitment monitoring based on powered on virtual machines (by default disabled)
      - Added: (Over)Commitment monitoring powered on and off dashboards
      - Added: (Over)Commitment monitoring is now able to in/exclude specific resources used for the calculation using a regex override
      - Changed: vSan monitoring is now RTM
      - Fixed: When opening the VMware configuration dashboard on a small screen resolution some table rows would not be displayed
      - Fixed: vCenter appliance monitoring could fail due to incorrect monitoring account. See for fix online knowledgebase: "KB: VMware Appliance Monitoring VCSA fails due to access error"
      - Fixed: Using the VMware configuration console to copy text from the fields was not possible using the CTRL+C key
      - Fixed: Using the number of samples override to tune monitors doesn’t result in the wanted behaviour
      - Fixed: Optimized internal logging
      - Fixed: The guest IP discovery of the virtual machines were only displaying the first address
      - Fixed: The CPU/MEM/datastore commitment monitoring now uses a better formula to calculate the (over)commitment
      - Fixed: In debug mode the encrypted password was displayed. However the password is encrypted and cannot be compromised we now also remove it from the log
      - Fixed: Discovery of some virtual machines fails due to missing properties. (phantom vms)
      - Fixed: The discovery for the snapshot createdtime was not sortable 
      - Fixed: The appliance monitoring connection was dropped randomly
      - Fixed: The virtual machine total disk capacity discovery was only taking the first disk for the calculation
      - Fixed: When the Vcenter network connection was lost and SCOM executed a discovery all objects were undiscovered
      - Fixed: When the Opslogix software license has expired there was no alert generated
      - Fixed: When the Opslogix software license update monitor was flip-flopping
      - Fixed: When the Opslogix software license is expired you couldn’t remove any vCenter connection

      V 21.4.2426.0

      - Added: VCSA monitoring. We now monitor the vCenter appliance state, services and CPU,MEM,Network usages
      - Added: Host HBA Storage path monitoring
      - Added: Extra discovery property on the virtual machine class to provide information on the datastores used by this vm
      - Added: During the connection test with an incorrect FQDN you will get better error messages
      - Fixed: The dashboard crashes when importing a CSV with ; as separator
      - Fixed: Several other bug fixes
      - Changed: NOTICE !!! >>> The license will now be attached to a version number. Please download and import a new license from the customer portal before importing this version !!

      V 21.2.2280.0

      - Added: UI debug logging.
      - Fixed: PowerShell DevOps module several small bug fixes.
      - Fixed: Administration dashboard now checks if the connection specified having a correctly naming
      - Fixed: In some scenarios the Virtual machines are not discovered due to the tagging service.
      - Fixed: Administration dashboard , when a resource pool is deleted but still a vCenter connection is assigned to the pool the dashboard would crash at startup.
      - Fixed: Several other bug fixes.

      V20.11.2156.0

      - Added: You can now add and maintain vCenter connections/licenses by using a PowerShell module
      - Fixed: When using a split connection vSAN components and VM snapshots were not correctly discovered.
      - Fixed: The Opslogix license is valid monitor reports an incorrect warning state
      - Fixed: The VC alert backlist csv file would be overwritten during a collector update
      - Fixed: Various small spell typos
      - Fixed: Guest OS monitoring was reporting the powerstate in the alert message instead of the OS guest state
      - Fixed: Incorrect vSAN label on the disk group throughput performance rule
      - Fixed: Incorrect vSAN performance scale for latency and throughput monitors and performance rules
      - Fixed: In some scenarios the warning state of the ESX Host RAM Disk monitor was incorrect
      - Fixed: Using the Alert template with target types 'Datacenter' and 'Resource Pool' will fail to save
      - Fixed: The VC alarm filter was broken
      - Changed: The interval for the VC alert collection rule is changed from 5 to 2 minutes
      - Changed: Formatted the ESX Host RAM Disk task output
      - Changed: Updated 'Learn more' urls
      - Changed: NOTICE !!! >>> If you have imported the 2 vSAN management packs please remove before importing the new version

      V 20.9.2060.0

      - Added: Host Ram Disk monitoring
      - Added: Discovery of Tagging information for Hosts and Virtual machines
      - Fixed: In some scenarios the warning state of the datastore GB and PCT monitor was incorrect
      - Fixed: Some typos in the alert descriptions
      - Added: 'Learn More' link to the license assignment tab

      V 20.7.1933.0

      - Fixed: Using license assignments with vCenter connections using capitals in the name will break discovery.
      - Fixed: ESX Host PNic addresses discovery.
      - Fixed: Hardware processor monitor alert parameter replacement.
      - Fixed: License is still valid monitor.
      - Fixed: Using special chars in vCenter connection name will crash console.
      - Fixed: vSan connection stability.
      - Fixed: EsxHost discovery could fail if the DNS or Service tag was not supplied.
      - Fixed: Scroll bar was not activated in the configuration dashboard.
      - Fixed: Several typos.
      - Added: Export and Import vCenter connections and License assignments to a csv file.
      - Added: You can now filter connections and host assignments in the configuration dashboard.
      - Added: When during the license assignment a collector agent is unreachable you will get notified.
      - Added: Better SCOM task error handling used for licensing assignments.
      - Added: Opslogix VMware collector uninstall SCOM task.
      - Added: More debug logging to UI and Backend.

      v 20.5.1891.0

      - Fixed: ESX Host PNic addresses discovery
      - Added: ESX Host VNic addresses discovery
      - Added: ESX Host management address discovery
      - Added: ESX Host Service Tag discovery
      - Added: ESX Host Enclosure Serial Number Tag discovery
      - Added: ESX Host Oem Specific String discovery
      - Added: vSAN Monitoring including performance and monitors for Skyline , disk and diskgroups , vSAN cluster service [Beta version]
      - Added: Using Squared Up ? import our VMware dashboard for free.
      - Added: Better exception handling when doing connection test or Host license assignments in the Configuration dashboard
      - Changed: Rewritten complete collector service backend to get even better performance and stability
      - Changed: Changed name labels of the : Configuration Dashboard , VMware collector service and installation folder
      - Changed: NOTICE !!! >>> We also refactored and moved the Licensing console to the Administration part in the SCOM console.
      - Changed: NOTICE !!! >>> Before importing this release remove the "Opslogix IMP - Licensing UI for OpsMgr 2012" management pack.
      - Changed: NOTICE !!! >>> Before importing this release remove the "Opslogix IMP - VMware Full Monitoring Groups" management pack.
      - Changed: NOTICE !!! >>> After importing you will have to re assign the hosts licenses using the console ‘Opslogix VMware MP’ -> assign tab
      - Changed: NOTICE !!! >>> We changed the version numbering to [Year].[Month].[BuildNr].[PatchNr] to get better release insights

      v 1.3.1724.0

      - Added: Scale-out feature . Now you can spread the monitoring load over more than 1 Management Server. See User Guide for more information.
      - Fixed: Various small UI and backend performance improvements.

      v 1.3.1679.0

      - Added: You can now monitor all Hosts services at top level per host. This way you save SCOM resources and still get notified when a host service is unhealthy. Use the override smallset = true for the discovery and monitor to enable this.
      - Added: Hardware storage monitoring will now include the sensors for drive faults , predictive failures , parity checks , disk array movement , rebuild states.
      - Fixed: Various performance improvements in the SCOM MP modules.
      - Changed: The Host network NIC monitoring will now report if the network cable is not attached or functioning.
      - Changed: When updating the host license assignments using the administration console we don't refresh the console anymore. This makes the user experience better.
      - Changed: NOTICE !!! >>> The network NIC monitoring is now by default disabled. Please use the enable override to activate.
      - Changed: NOTICE !!! >>> Before importing this release remove the "Opslogix IMP - VMware Configuration Dashboard" management pack.
      - Changed: NOTICE !!! >>> Before importing this release remove the "Opslogix IMP - VMware Full Monitoring Groups" management pack. This will reset the members in group "VMware VM Enable Full Performance Collections".

      v 1.3.1652.0

      - Changed: Added more logging for debugging UI config dashboard
      - Changed: SCOM task executing using SDK sometimes fail to send finished event
      - Changed: When a time out occurred during sending back Property Bag to SCOM we will not unload the module
      - Added: Added automatic tuning of the Property Bag paging size
      - Fixed: Commitment monitoring now detects hyperthreading on hosts
      - Fixed: Commitment monitoring ignores hosts that are shutdown/disconnected

      v 1.3.1594.0

      - Fixed: The host property "Is member of cluster" could be empty
      - Fixed: The VC Alert collection did not pickup alerts from non Host/VM types
      - Fixed: Opening the VMware administration dashboard gives error on non-MS servers
      - Fixed: Several display typos
      - Fixed: When you unassign all hosts on a connection the virtual machines will not be undiscovered
      - Fixed: Getting license information fails when a SCOM MS server in the SCOM resource pool is unavailable
      - Fixed: The VMware collector was deployed to all members of the default SCOM VMware resource pool automatically
      - Fixed: several optimizations in the licensing and collector modules
      - Fixed: When the Opslogix license is not valid you still see (unmonitored) hosts and VMs discoverd.
      - Fixed: When updating a existing connection the connection is shown 2 times in the table.
      - Added: Extended Host properties: Dns name , Serial nr , Mac , IP , OS type , OS version number , Hardware model and Vendor
      - Added: Progress bar on the VMware Administration dashboard
      - Added: You can now filter the VC alerts using a blacklist to reduce noise
      - Added: Guest disk free space monitors
      - Added: Guest disk free space perf collection
      - Added: Guest disk capacity space perf collection
      - Added: Guest OS state monitoring
      - Added: License monitor that will report a expired OpsLogix license
      - Added: When the OpsLogix license is expired you can not add/change any connections / assignments
      - Changed: The VMware SCOM Runas Profile is now deprecated
      - Changed: NOTICE !!!! >>> The OpsLogix VMware Configuration Dashboard is now MOVED to the Administration Pane within the SCOM console

      v 1.3.1470.0

      - Added: Cluster CPU commitment monitoring
      - Added: Custer Memory commitment monitoring
      - Added: Cluster Disk commitment monitoring
      - Added: Cluster CPU commitment performance collection
      - Added: Custer Memory commitment performance collection
      - Added: Cluster Disk commitment performance collection
      - Added: SCOM CPU capacity commitment dashboard
      - Added: SCOM Memory capacity commitment dashboard
      - Added: SCOM Disk capacity commitment dashboard
      - Added: Extended discovered Virtual Machine total memory MB property
      - Added: Extended discovered Virtual Machine Added number of CPU property
      - Added: Extended discovered Virtual Machine number of Cores per socket property
      - Added: Extended discovered Virtual Machine number virtual hard disks property
      - Added: Extended discovered Virtual Machine number of network cards property
      - Added: Extended discovered Virtual Machine virtual disk path name property
      - Added: Extended discovered Virtual Machine custom fields property
      - Added: Extended discovered Virtual Machine total capacity virtual hard disks property
      - Added: Extended discovered Virtual Machine annotation property
      - Changed: Several management pack optimizations for better stability.
      - Changed: Several collector optimizations for better stability.
      - Changed: The hardware components named PCI and CPU are now deprecated. CPU is replaced by processor.
      - Fixed: In some scenarioís snapshots did were not discovered.
      - Added: better error messages to the VMware configuration dashboard
      - Fixed: Connection test failed when using custom resource pools
      - Fixed: Updated license assignments did not update all members of the resource pool.
      - Fixed: In some scenarios some virtual machines did were not discovered due to powerstate.
      - Added: Confirm action when deleting VMware connection.
      - Fixed: Virtual machine powerstate monitoring was broken
      - Fixed: Hardware status based on sensor groups (smallset=true) will see 'Unknown' as final state even when there are healthy components in the sensor group

      v 1.3.10.1420
      - Fixed: When using custom SCOM resource pools the Connection test could fail.

      v 1.3.10.1418
      - Added: The VMware collector will be automatically installed when you do in the Configuration Dashboard a test connection, works also for custom SCOM resource pools
      - Added: Monitor datastore usage based on % and GB free. This monitor is enabled by default
      - Added: Extra Virtual machine discovery properties #Cpus #NetworkCards #Memory #Annotation #Virtualdisks
      - Changed: We disabled the monitor "Free space usage for the datastore as a percentage during a interval.". This one is replaced by the monitor "Free space usage for the datastore using percentage free and the GB free space during a interval."
      - Changed: In some scenarios discovery data send back to SCOM is huge and results in a timeout. Now the timeout limit is set to 15 minutes instead of 6
      - Fixed: In some scenarios the discovery of Hosts and VMs was broken and not all Hosts / VMs where discovered. For example, a cluster under a folder
      - Fixed: Changed display strings for some monitors in the Collector Management pack
      - Fixed: The Configuration Dashboard layout was not aligned
      - Fixed: Datastore mount status will now also report the name of the datastore that is unmounted in the alert
      - Fixed: Counter ìDatastore Highest latency millisecondî not showing data
      - Fixed: Host discovery property "Parent Host And Cluster Folder Path of the Hosts" contained key word "host" and "vm" and "folder"
      - Fixed: Alert parameter replacement for the Hardware Voltage monitor

      v 1.3.10.1394
      - Fixed: Host services monitoring was unmonitored
      - Fixed: Install collector will fail if the SCOM MS server did not had a internet connection
      - Fixed: In some scenarios the collector installer was started multiple times and did not end
      - Fixed: The hardware monitors provided a list of the failed overall components instead of the specific components

      v 1.3.10.1368
      - Changed: The name of the 'OpsLogix Rest API' service is changed to 'OpsLogix Collector Service'
      - Fixed: Hardware full discovery now returns failed hardware components parameter as list
      - Fixed: For VMs that are powered down the monitoring will stop
      - Changed: Hardware discovery is now super-fast
      - Changed: Vmware DS/Host/VM discovery is now super-fast
      - Changed: VC alert monitoring assignment now referring to target type
      - Fixed: When the VC connection was down the inventory check returned an incorrect message
      - Changed: Several VMware client optimizations
      - Fixed: VM Snapshots where not discovered in some scenarios
      - Fixed: Direct attached hosts returned a error while collecting performance data
      - Fixed: Several debug messages returning incomplete messages
      - Fixed: Inventory check time-outs
      - Known Issue: VM created by ëLive cloningí are not discovered

      v 1.3.10.0
      - Changed: We totally reengineered the way how we collect and manage the monitoring data to gain less footprint as possible. For example, we now decoupled the VMware collector from SCOM resulting in a far better SCOM stability.
      - Changed: You will now need Dot Net 4.5 on the MS/GW hosts that are doing the VMware monitoring.
      - Added: For the host config status monitor the event caused this change is added to the SCOM alert message
      - Fixed: The collection of the datastore IOPs performance graph was broken
      - Added: For the hardware monitoring the real component causing the unhealthy overall status is added to the SCOM alert message.
      - Changed: We removed all dynamic parameters from the SCOM alert messages so you can group them better
      - Changed: We disabled by default, all alert generation from the state rollup monitors to generate less alerting overhead.
      - Fixed: For the Host connection check monitor we fixed a state flip flop situation causing unwanted behaviors.
      - Added: All alerts that are generated in VCenter will be picked up by SCOM and a corresponding SCOM alert will be generated. No authoring templates needed anymore.
      - Added: You can now assign licenses to hosts (whitelisting) using the VMware administration dashboard. This way you only monitor the hosts you select.
      - Added: For the Virtual Machines we now discover extra propertyís as: Machine Name , Guest OS and IP address.
      - Added: We now cache data and only send data to SCOM if the state is changed. This way we lower the footprint of SCOM.

      v 1.3.9.11
      - Added (1173) : added on the VMs extra properties as guest os type , guest os name , guest host name , guest IP

      v 1.3.9.9
      - Fixed (1170) : Connection error to vSphere 6.5 or higher due to TSL security update. Be sure DOT NET 4.5 or higher is installed on the MS server.
      - Changed (1163) : To minimize the Hardware monitoring we added a light HW monitoring feature (default enabled) . This will provide an overall status of the components instead of a detailed level.

      v 1.3.9.0
      - Fixed: For large environments, if the Hardware discovery generates a timeout, you can now use paging.
      - Fixed: The Hardware discovery could generate a SCOM discovery crunch due to dynamic display names in VC. Notice: Due to this fix, overrides already created could become invalid. Please use the check overrides PS script to check.
      - Fixed: Alert replacement failed on some of the Network, CPU and Memory hardware monitors.
      - Fixed: Some alarms generated by the VC alarm monitors contained a {0} in the name.
      - Added: You can now enable to upload all your VMware monitoring data to OMS Log insights, including Audit and Task logs.

      v 1.3.8.46
      - Fixed: in some situations the performance collection of VC connected Hosts/VMs could stop working.

      v 1.3.8.34
      - Changed: You have now the feature to specify the property to take for the discovery include and exclude override
      - Added: Datastore Capacity performance collection
      - Added: Datastore Capacity dashboard.
      - Added: Host to datastore performance collection for: Highest latency
      - Added: Host to datastore performance collection for: Storage I/O Control aggregated
      - Added: Host to datastore performance collection for: Storage I/O Control active time
      - Added: Host to datastore performance collection for: Storage I/O Control normalized latency
      - Added: Host to datastore performance collection for: Storage I/O Control datastore maximum queue depth
      - Added: New generic Matrix and Top n Reports. Generic usable for every performance counter in SCOM.
      - Added: Linked report : VMware Datacenter Availability
      - Added: Linked report : VMware Datastore Availability
      - Added: Linked report : VMware Datastore Usage Matrix
      - Added: Linked report : VMware Host CPU and Memory Usage Matrix
      - Added: Linked report : VMware Host CPU and Memory Usage TopN
      - Added: Linked report : VMware VM CPU and Memory Usage Matrix
      - Added: Linked report : VMware VM CPU and Memory Usage TopN

      v 1.3.8.0
      - Fixed: The Snapshot Age monitor fails due to incorrect region settings if not set to US.
      - Fixed: The License monitor becomes in a critical unhealthy state if you have used 100% of your licenses.
      - Fixed: In the UI when a connection test is done, the first server of the pool is taken instead of the first healthy one.
      - Fixed: When a datastore is set inactive in VC the datastore monitor workflows will fail.

      v 1.3.7.0
      - Changed: Optimized all modules for being able to handle more loads.
      - Fixed: Using GW as SCOM resource pool members to monitor VMware could result in a unresponsive resource pool.
      - Fixed: In some situations Hardware monitoring stalls and reports an error to the event log.
      - Fixed: Typo in the CPU usage VM and host monitors.
      - Fixed: Incorrect last value shown in alert messages from some monitors.
      - Fixed: When adding a new VC connection the incorrect server is used to do the connection check.
      - Fixed: Undiscovery of a switch can in some situations not be processed.
      - Changed: Added detailed error message for the connection check monitor.

      v 1.3.6.31
      - Changed: All the discoveryís will now have a include and exclude property.
      - Fixed: Using SCOM resource pooling in combination with SCOM gateways can result in an unresponsive resource pool.
      - Fixed: Trying to add a new instance will fail if the license monitor is in warning or uninitialized state.

      v 1.3.6.1
      - Fixed: Typo in the VM and host discovery product knowledge.
      - Fixed: If you consume exactly 100% of the socket count the License monitor will be critical instead of in warning state.
      - Changed: The time out of the hardware discovery changed from 5 minutes to 10 minutes.

      v 1.3.6.0
      - Changed: The Processor Cache will now be discovered and shown as memory objects.
      - Fixed: The CPU unit will now be discovered and shown as processor objects
      - Fixed: In some cases when all alerts in VC are cleared the corresponding SCOM monitors will not be set to healthy.
      - Added: License monitoring. When the license is not compliant you will get notified.
      - Added: VM Cpu Wait time Monitor (disabled by default)
      - Added: VM Memory Ballooning Monitor (disabled by default)

      v 1.3.5.28
      - Fixed: The snapshot age monitor can fail due to region comma separator conversion.
      - Fixed: Some display descriptions of some monitor modules.

      v 1.3.5.0
      - Added: Discovery of the VirtualMachine Snapshots and the properties
      - Added: Monitor to alert when a VM snapshot age has hit a threshold
      - Added: Monitor to alert when a VirtualMachine is powered off
      - Added: Extra Datastore and VirtualMachine dashboards
      - Added: Performance Collection of Datastore latency
      - Added: Performance Collection of Network and Disk usage
      - Added: Monitors for Network , Disk and Datastore usage
      - Added: Monitor for VM Tools version number. Generates an alert when version not matched.
      - Added: For most monitors you can now configure by override an sample count. The monitor will only generate a alert after x sample times the threshold is hit. (Default value = 1).
      - Changed: All discoveries have now a include exclude property. You can specify using a Regex what to include and exclude.
      - Changed: Optimized all native monitor modules to have less footprint.
      - Fixed: In some situations undiscovering VMware objects was not occurring.

      v 1.3.4.0
      - Added Distributed Virtual Switch discovery and monitoring.
      - Added ESX Host Services discovery and monitoring.
      - Updated the layout of the licensing dashboard.

      v 1.3.3.0
      - Optimized the Hardware Discovery and Monitoring.
      - Added extra discovered properties to the connection instance.
      - Added a CPU wait and Readyness Monitor.
      - Added SCOM Group to contain all single ESX servers that can be used for overrides.
      - Fixed Bug for monitor vmware tools status , incorrect status when machine is turned off.
      - Fixed Bug when a vcenter is down during the discovery, SCOM will undiscover the vcenter.
      - Fixed Bug the VMware MP templates dont work against all targets you can select.
      - Changed max username and password length from 20 to 255 in the configuration dashboard.

      v 1.3.2.10
      - Optimized the VMware modules to take less cpu/mem resources
      - Most of the performance collections for Virtual Machines are disabled by default. You can enable it with an override
      - Performance collections for Virtual Machines are set to 15min interval
      - Performance monitoring for Virtual Machines and ESX Hosts are set to 5 min interval
      - Added Virtual Machine Snapshot count monitoring as running level and total count
      - Added property to see what snapshot is currently used for the Virtual Machine
      - Added the location path of the Host and Virtual Machine , now you can see for example on what host a Virtual Machine is currently running.
      - Removed the overall status of a datacenter based on the VMware api. Now added a rollup based on the availability status.
      - Added availability , configuration , performance , security rollups for the datacenter.
      - Added VMware tools status monitoring.
      - Optimized the connections/session to the Vcenter or hosts to read out the monitoring data.
      - Updated the layout of the configuration dashboard.
      - Added an extra log features to debug the management pack by using special registry keys.
      - The password is now always stored as FIPS. In environments without FIPS it will fall back to NON-FIPS.
      - Updated installation guide with new UI screenshots.

      v 1.3.1.1
      - Fixed typo in VM CPU monitoring alert.

      V 1.3.1.0
      - Added More Performance collections
      - Changed VMWare performance modules
      - optimized vmware SDK session usage
      - added hardware monitoring
      - added direct attached esx host
      - added direct monitoring not based on alerts in Vcenter.

      v 1.0.0.164
      - Fixed Status monitors for Nework and Datastore objects

      v 1.0.0.165
      - Password is no longer a property in clear text. Password is encrypted

      v 1.0.0.172
      - Added a Monitor for vCenter Connection
      - Ability to Monitor multiple datacenters
      - Bug fix for OverallStatus Monitor does not initialize for Datastores
      - Bug fix for OverallStatus Monitor does not initialize for Networks

      v 1.1.0.1
      - Added the license model - The management pack now cannot function without a license key.
      - Overall status Network monitor placed under the "Availability" RollUp monitor.
      - Overall status Datastore monitor placed under the "Availability" RollUp monitor.
      - A vCenter server can now only be added after a successful connection test.
      - The password used to connect to vCenter can be updated in SCOM if the password is changed for the monitoring account.

      v 1.1.0.37
      - Fixed issue where the same ESX server is discovered for each datacenter.

      v 1.1.0.76
      - Added performance counter for ESX Host CPU usage
      - Added performance counter for ESX Host Memory usage
      - Added performance counter for Virtual Machine CPU usage
      - Added performance counter for Virtual Machine Memory usage
      - Added performance counter for Virtual Machine Disk Reads (MPps) usage
      - Added performance counter for Virtual Machine Disk Writes (MPps) usage
      - Added performance counter for Virtual Machine Disk Utility (MPps) usage
      - Revised alert caching for better efficiency
      - Added the possibility to override the time interval for discoveries
      - Added the possibility to override the sync for discoveries

      v 1.1.0.84
      - Modules update for reducing logon/logoff traffic on vCenter server.
      - Fix auto reconnect when connection is dropped to vCenter by module

      v 1.2.0.1
      - All monitors and alert rules are performance optimized by making use of module cookdown
      - Caching for monitors and alert rules is replaced by module cookdown
      - Bug in configuration dashboard that falsely states that the licence is expired is fixed
      - Datastore Free GB performance rule is added
      - Datastore Used GB performance rule is added
      - Datastore Percent Free GB performance rule is added
      - Datastore Percent Used GB performance rule is added
      - Performance rules for ESX servers are disabled by default
      - Performance rules for Virtual Machines are disabled by default
      v 1.2.0.35
      - The class model has been changed in order to be compatible with the System Center Service Manager connector
      - A discovery has been added for the Asset Tag attribute on the ESX Host Class
      - All Performance counters have been optimized by using module cookdown
      v 1.2.0.37
      - Fixed bug where ESX Host counters do not show
      v 1.2.0.38
      - Added All Datastores goup for dashboards
      v 1.2.0.40
      - Disabled diagnostic logging in normal operating mode
      - Added display names to some of the rules
      v1.3.0.51
      - Added monitors for all alarms in VMware vCenter
      - Added multiple rules for ESX hosts and VMs
      - Added the capability to use different resource pools in scom
      - Corrected the percentage issue where a percentage was out of a 1000 instead of 100
      - Added the capability to create custom monitors by using templates

      v1.3.0.52
      - Fixed bugs in the capability to use different resource pools in scom

      v1.3.0.95
      - Fixed bug for resource pool discovery events in eventlog
      - Fixed Hardware discovery 10000 event (long running discovery)
      - Fixed bug that causes all monitors to turn healthy when an additional vcenter is added to monitoring.

      v1.3.0.100
      - Added additional debugging to the monitoring modules.

      v1.3.0.113
      - Fixed bug related to the exceptions thrown in the VMWare MP modules.
      - Fixed some bug issues releated to the single quote on the value names.

      v1.3.0.160
      - Added additional function to bypass the connection test button

      v1.3.1.0
      - Single EsxHost monitored
      - Fixed bugs releated to the performance counters
      - Fix bug releated to the connections to VMware
      - Added new dashboards
      - Added new monitors
      - Added new status of the components
      - License already set when you add a new connection to the dashboard