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vRealize True Visibility Management Pack for Microsoft Azure SQL

11 FEB 2021 | Build 17557229

06 OCT 2020 | Build 17002634

What's in the Release Notes

The release notes cover the following topics:

About vRealize True Visibility Management Pack for Microsoft Azure SQL
Before You Begin
Known Issues/Limitations

About vRealize True Visibility Management Pack for Microsoft Azure SQL

The VMware vRealize^® True Visibility™ Management Pack for Microsoft Azure SQL is an embedded adapter for vRealize Operations (vROps), collecting performance data from your Azure Compute and SQL environments and providing predictive analysis and real-time information about problems in your cloud infrastructure—all within the vRealize Operations user interface.

Version	Release Date	Description
3.0.2	11 FEB 2021	Fixes certificate issues when connecting to Microsoft Azure and Azure Government. In order for the fix to take effect, user must install new pak, run test connection, accept new certificates, then restart the vROps collector(s) where the adapter instance(s) are running.
3.0.0	06 OCT 2020	Initial General Availability release for VMware vRealize^® True Visibility™

For more information, see the product documentation.

Before You Begin

	vROps Requirements	Microsoft Azure Requirements
Version(s)	vRealize Operations 6.3+ (Enterprise or Advanced editions, depending on what will be monitored. )	Microsoft Azure SQL Database version 12
Connection		Azure Subscription ID
Credentials		Azure Subscription credentials: Tenant ID Client ID Secret (a password you create during the Create an Active Directory Service Principal and AD App process) Azure Subscription & SQL Database credentials (Required for query monitoring and certain SQL database metrics. Tenant ID Client ID Secret ( a password you create during the Create an Active Directory Service Principal and AD App process) Azure SQL Database user name and password Note: The MP uses these ports: Azure VM - Restful API - access to management.azure.com over port 443 or 80 Azure VM - Authentication - access to login.windows.net over port 443 or 80 Azure SQL - Remote JDBC connection - access to SQL Server hostname over port 1433

vROps Requirements

Microsoft Azure Requirements

Version(s)

vRealize Operations 6.3+ (Enterprise or Advanced editions, depending on what will be monitored. )

Microsoft Azure SQL Database version 12

Connection

Azure Subscription ID

Credentials

Azure Subscription credentials:

Tenant ID
Client ID
Secret (a password you create during the Create an Active Directory Service Principal and AD App process)

Azure Subscription & SQL Database credentials (Required for query monitoring and certain SQL database metrics.

Tenant ID
Client ID
Secret ( a password you create during the Create an Active Directory Service Principal and AD App process)
Azure SQL Database user name and password

Note: The MP uses these ports:

Azure VM - Restful API - access to management.azure.com over port 443 or 80

Azure VM - Authentication - access to login.windows.net over port 443 or 80

Azure SQL - Remote JDBC connection - access to SQL Server hostname over port 1433

Known Issues/Limitations

The following known issues/limitations exist for the currently-released version of the Management Pack:

When using the Least-privileged user (or any custom user) to collect from any databases below the Premium pricing tier (i.e., Standard/Basic), certain properties, events, and metrics are not available.
The Microsoft Azure SQL REST API has limitations on metrics available for Azure VM resources. See: available VM-related Metrics (Microsoft Azure SQL).