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This is a list of all features and functions since BVQ Version 3.2
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Version 6.1
- Support for Cisco MDS Switches
- Horizontal Marker
- VMware: Additional attributes
- New license model
- WebUI: BVQ support package
- WebUI: Reporting Improvements
- Further Enhancements
- Export GUI: Ease expansion of objects in tree mode tables
- WebUI: BVQ GUI downloadable from server
- WebUI: Add possibility to disable performance scan for SAN and SVC scanners
- WebUI: Individual data expiration definitions
- WebUI: Ease identification of Scanner problems
- WebUI: Exclusion/Re-inclusion of alert rule ojects
- WebUI: Show license status on Home dashboard
Version 6.0
- Systems Health Map
- Redesigned report template creation
- Guidance through the WebUI: Server-Tours
- Show context object type in performance charts
- Event Filtering
Version 5.7
- SAN Module Enhancement: Access Gateway & NPIV
- VMware Module Enhancement: VSAN
- Predefined System Alert Rules
- MongoDB backup via BVQ Server
- Filtering Enhancement: Allow simple mathematics
- PBC Charts as Excel data source
- Grafana: Table support
- Topology Charts
- New performance metrics (Single Object Peak)
- Enhanced Favorite Chooser & Event View
Version 5.6
- VMware platform
- SAN Zoning
- New System Favorites for SAN & VMware
- Performance Indicators for all performance metrics
- Java 10 Migration
- High DPI Support finalized
- Reporting Improvements
- Restructured Path Browser
- Copy Sync Quality Monitoring
- Improved Table Column Attribute Chooser
Version 5.5
- New SAN Module
- SAN System Favorites (v5.5.3)
- New Alerting Engine
- SVC 8.2 & IBM FlashSystem 9100 support
- SVC 7.6 & 7.8.1 feature support
- GUI Improvements
- Improved BVQ Server Web UI
Version 5.4
- Capacity charting
- Major Web Dashboard Improvements
- Introduction of Design IO Density for MDisk group & Storage Class objects
- Report scheduling
- VDisk copy capacity difference
- Enhanced path based charting (PBC)
- PBC Chart report snippets
- Enhanced BVQ Server user roles
- BVQ Server Maintenance Mode (v5.4.1)
Version 5.3
- Path based charting
- Null object
- Enhanced filtering
- Web dashboard
- REST API
- New Scanner module
- All way pathing
- Favorite-menu
- Thin coverage ratio
- Retrospective tabular reports
Version 5.2
Version 5.1
Version 5.0
- Multiple view composition
- Fully recallable table views
- Self explanatory favorites
- Integrated expertise
- Latency filter
- Comprestimator output visualization
- Flat design and ultra high resolution support
Version 4.1
- Event and audit log integration
- Topology filtering
- New system features supported
- Ultra high resolution monitor support
- Improved date-axis in Performance-View
Version 4.0
- Treetable
- Treemap filtering
- Object centric navigation
- Global analytic favorites
- Customize GUI startup window layout
- Consolidated DB installer
- Pre-consolidated stats storage
- Performance view enhancements
- Adaptive Treemap Sizing enhancements
- System deletion tool integrated in GUI
Version 3.5
- Performance view: Auto refresh
- Undo / Redo option for topology and performance view
- Metric-Selection changed to use 7.3 statistics as default and refactoring of contextmenu to open the performance view
- Split of capacity aspects into "SVC Capacity" and "VM Capacity"
- SVC 7.4 child mdisk group & disk encryption support
- Performance view: Options-Dialog: Objectlist: Additional useful columns added
- New value "SCSI ID count"
- Reduce of memory consumption of performance view
Version 3.4
- Adaptive Treemap Sizing
- Indication of subelement size (SeS)
- Restructuring of capacity aspects
- Loading performance indicators with custom timing
- Acquisition of IO density of Storwize systems in the backend
- Context menu for measurement points
- Storwize drives and their statistics
- VDisk (copy) statistics of cache usage
- CLI access in the GUI
- Reorganization of favorites by using Drag & Drop
- Copy name
- Detailed display of the RAM allocation in the node
- More reports in the standard report
Version 3.3
- SVC 7.3 cache metrics
- Port statistics for SAS, PCIe, FCoE, iSCSI, IPREP
- Multi window docking
- DB connection profile
- Disk type name and comment
Version 3.2
- New 'Look and Feel' of the GUI
- Better searching, sorting and filtering functions for tables
- Easy Tier Analysis improvements - MDisk Tier
- Highlighting of load curves in the performance view
- Same time period for several performance views