Release Notes

Enhancements

AI Assistants:

• CMDB Assistant: Identifies COTS applications, speeding up inventory mapping (standalone or with existing inventory).
• Migration Goals Assistant: Suggests migration pathways based on user goals (light, heavy, or as-is modernization).
• Modernization Targets Assistant: Recommends Azure alternatives based on detected technologies and migration pathways.
• 6R Assistant: Provides tailored 6R recommendations aligning migration, modernization preferences, and business context (customizable per app/server).
• Application Sizing Assistant: Analyzes infrastructure to estimate migration complexity (simple, medium, large).
• Wave Planning Assistant: Groups apps into migration waves based on network affinities, 6R treatments, and complexity.

General Enhancements:

• Advanced Report: Features enhanced TCO calculations, deeper insights, and improved clarity for better usability.
• Finder Wizard: Enables searches with 50+ parameters to retrieve matching workloads.
• App Strategies Module: Defines migration goals (tolerate, invest, eliminate, replace) for better migration planning; auto-syncs with AI Assistants.
• Activity Tracker: Guides users through assessment and planning to streamline workflow.
• Enhanced UI and Dashboards: Improved interface and data health dashboards for faster troubleshooting.

Resolved Issues

• Addresses a number of issues and performance enhancements.

Enhancements

AVS Express

• Update AVS to 4.0 codebase
• Inclusion of IaaS SKU family slide
• Improved storage calculations
• New logic determines storage usage based on memory reservation or in-use memory
• Update to required node calculations
• Added new methdology for headroom calculations

Resolved Issues

Dr Migrate

• Resolved issue with licence types and table updates on renewal

AVS Express

• Resolved issue with AVS calculator not updating

Resolved Issues

Dr Migrate

• Resolved issue where Add New Environment button is not appearing correctly in Environment Settings

AVS Express

• Resolved issue where VMWare cost does not show correctly

Enhancements

Dr Migrate

• Updates to processing methods for network data to assist performance
• Update logic for VMs where no performance data is captured

AVS Express

• Removed BYOL node types from node preferences type dropdown
• Added support for integer as VM name
• Removed legacy backup cost calculation logic
• Added VCF licence option

Resolved Issues

Dr Migrate

• Resolved minor report formatting issues
• Update to DB VM display name column to support some special unicode characters

AVS Express

• Resolved issue with AVS node type being blank on some region, node and BYOL selection combinations.
• Updated assessment creation timeout settings

Resolved Issues

AVS Express

• Split VM upload to Azure Migrate into batches (20,000 per batch limit)
• Fixed issue where Static loader does not load Intel_Sku_Upgrade_Rules due to name mismatch
• Fixed issue where Excess Storage VM template returns all servers when 1 server is the entire excess storage amount
• Updated AVS inconsistencies - RAM and AV36 storage
• Updated As-Is sizing for CPU and RAM 50%
• Updated incorrect VMWare Cost
• Fixed issue where Azure Pricing fails when currency conversion has error
• Updated IaaS costs appearing the same for PAYG and RI

Resolved Issues

Dr Migrate

• PowerBI refresh issue causing some reports to be blank

Enhancements

AVS Express

• Updated UI Toggle for existing 3 Node Cluster
• Updated AV64 Field Empowerment discounts from 0-30%
• Added UI Toggle for As-Is vs Right-Sizing
• Added Input for VMWare VCF Cost per Physical per Core

Resolved Issues

Dr Migrate

• Resolved issue with Azure Pricing Retriever API
• Resolved Installed Application join issue when installed apps table does not contain FQDNs
• Resolved special characters in customer name causing inconsistent reports
• Resolved issue where Azure migrate internal error causes assessments to fail
• Resolved issue where VM Count in migration strategy is different on UI vs report
• Updated to ignore the data from vInfo sheet if VM name is empty
• Removed duplicate of Microsoft Teams appearing twice in Replace list
• Resolved issue where Azure Migrate failed to access machines

Enhancements

Dr Migrate

• Add new page for redirection on deployment failure to assist user setup (Marketplace only).

AVS Express

• Add Defender for Cloud slide to AVS Express report
• Minor additional enhancements to the AVS Express report

Resolved Issues

Dr Migrate

• Updated regional spelling of utilization in foundation Insights report
• Ensure verification of Azure Migrate Appliance Existence in dependency analysis processing.
• Network traffic incorrectly labelled as Internally Scanned when source server is Unscanned/External
• Inventory Export - Correction to CPU/Memory percentages
• Resolved performance of Web UI calls for Power BI refresh
• Resolved mismatch with Blob storage tier and export
• Resolved issue with SQL License cost not correctly generating when no SQL MI is present
• Resolved Web UI Server Inventory popup showing backup flag as not active when the server is tagged as requiring backup.
• Add rounding up of VM disk to 1 GB if no disk info in vPartition worksheet

Resolved Issues

Dr Migrate

• Fix to calculate correct network coverage percentage
• Resolved issue with OpenAI Talk Track URL

AVS Express

• Fix difference in the AVS nodes shown on RvTools import wizard and on the export report

Resolved Issues

Dr Migrate

• Azure Migrate Readiness Status fix
• VM Quick Editor Recommended Disk SKU update
• Return correct error code when the PowerBI refresh fails
• Unable to reset wave start date for waves that contain special characters
• Insights > downloadable reports > Inscope/Out of scope filter is incorrect if a server is assigned to multiple applications
• Drmigrate And Drmigrate Express instances need to have assessments created only in Azuremigrate supported regions
• Premium SSD v2 Disks not costed correctly
• Azure Migrate Readiness Status fix
• Fix minor issue with inventory export
• Resolved an issue with Rapid Assessment Environment link
• Import servers preferenced in assessment creation over discovered
• Applications being tagged as cots in strategy scorer
• Network data being incorrectly mapped as Internal
• GUID not being added to server_disks table for ultra_disks

AVS Express

• Remove unused fields for AVS Express TCO
• AVS costing not updating
• Multiple RV Tools data loads triggered almost the same time
• AVS Costs in Scenarios does not align from page to page
• AVS costing not showing in pbi reports.