Release notes

Migrate Fit Assessment is now Migration Center discovery client CLI

The Fit Assessment tool or mfit has now been renamed to Migration Center discovery client CLI or mcdc CLI. For the latest version, see the mcdc CLI documentation.

Updates for version 1.15.3

On August 16, 2023, we released Migrate Fit Assessment 1.15.3, which lets you upgrade to Migration Center discovery client CLI.

Alternatively, to upgrade to the mcdc CLI directly, you can download the mcdc CLI and collection scripts again in the same directories where you installed the previous version of mfit.

For more information, see the mcdc CLI overview.

Updates for version 1.15.2

On July 4, 2023, we released Migrate Fit Assessment 1.15.2, which includes bug fixes to the HTML Fit Assessment reports.

Updates for version 1.15.1

On June 27, 2023, we released Migrate Fit Assessment 1.15.1, which includes security improvements and bug fixes.

Updates for version 1.15.0

On June 19, 2023, we released Migrate Fit Assessment 1.15.0.

Features

Fit Assessment of WebSphere applications

The Fit Assessment tool can now assess WebSphere applications fit for containerization to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), GKE Enterprise clusters, or Cloud Run platform.

Added the following rules for WebSphere Application Server Fit Assessment:

  • A10N-APP-1 - matched when an external database is used
  • A10N-APP-2 - matched when an external web server is used
  • A10N-STO-1 - matched when network mounts are found
  • A10N-STO-2 - matched when NFS is exporting a local directory

For more information about WebSphere application containerization, see the Migrate to Containers documentation.

Changes

Enhanced Microsoft Excel workbook reports

The Microsoft Excel workbook (XLSX) report now has a new Contents worksheet that provides information about report generation and assessment. This worksheet also contains a table of contents that lists all the worksheets in your report.

The App Components worksheet has been modified to better reflect the components' running state, version, and containerization fit information.

Enhanced Microsoft Excel workbook reports

For more information about the XLSX report, see Generate Fit Assessment report.

Fixed

WordPress journey is now assessed with all target platforms

When you generate a Fit Assessment report using mfit, you can specify the target platform. By default, the --target-platform flag is set to all and all possible journeys are assessed.

In the previous version, if you changed the value of the --target-platform flag to anything other than all, then the WordPress journey was not assessed. Now, the WordPress journey is assessed for all target platforms and is included in the generated report.

Updates for version 1.14.4

On May 2, 2023, we released Migrate Fit Assessment 1.14.4.

Features

Support for WordPress

The Fit Assessment tool now detects and assesses WordPress applications in Apache WebHosts.

Support for AWS collection and assessment

  • Inventory collection: The Fit Assessment tool now supports AWS inventory collection via the mfit discover aws command.

  • Guest collection: The collection scripts collect more information about AWS when run on an AWS virtual machine instance (VM).

    To learn how to perform a guest collection against AWS VMs, see Collect mfit guest data from EC2 VMs.

  • Fit Assessment: New rules have been added specifically for VMs migrated from AWS.

Generate large reports in a Microsoft Excel workbook

The Fit Assessment tool can now generate a report in a Microsoft Excel workbook file (XLSX) format. The XLSX report can handle large amounts of data, and therefore is suitable for cases where there are higher number of VMs which the HTML report might not be able to handle.

To generate a report in an XLSX file, run the following command:

./mfit report --format xlsx >  REPORT_NAME.xlsx

Prevent overwriting later collections on import

When importing an archive using mfit discover import, if that archive overwrites an archive collected at a later date for the same machine, the import fails unless you provide the --force flag.

Fixed

Empty fingerprints are now ignored

The Fit Assessment tool detects fingerprints for each VM. If two collections contain a VM with the same fingerprints, then the tool knows that it is the same VM.

This fixes an issue where VMs with only empty fingerprints are imported successfully, but don't appear in reports. Now in such cases, the collection fails and displays a warning instead.

Updates for version 1.14.3

On March 16, 2023, we released Migrate Fit Assessment 1.14.3.

Features

New design for Fit Assessment detailed report

In this release we have introduced new report design with details about VM application components like Tomcat, Windows IIS, JBoss, and Websphere applications. The new report comes with an improved text-based filtering along with a detailed inventory of application components identified on VM.

Detailed assessment report Virtual Machine list

To generate an HTML file in the old format, use the flag --html-v0:

mfit report --format html --full --html-v0

Windows IIS application Fit Assessment

We have introduced a detailed Fit Assessment of Windows IIS applications which lets you view the fit for modernization to Windows IIS application containers.

Windows IIS Application assessment view

Updates for version 1.14.2

On March 15, 2023, we released Migrate Fit Assessment 1.14.2 which includes bug fixes.

Updates for version 1.14.1

On February 19, 2023, we released Migrate Fit Assessment 1.14.1.

Features

Manual recovery from upgrade failure

We added a manual recovery option that lets you manually recover from a rare case of failure which causes loss of data during the upgrade process. After upgrading mfit, when you run the latest version, if you see an error which indicates that the database upgrade failed, you can issue the following command:

./mfit discover recover-db

This command reverts the internal data store to its condition before the upgrade and preserves the information collected.

Changes

Enhanced JBoss applications Fit Assessment

Added the following rules for JBoss applications Fit Assessment:

  • A8N-APP-4 - matched when the source Java version is newer than the expected target image Java version.
  • A8N-APP-5 - matched when an external database is used.
  • A8N-APP-6 - matched when an external web server is used.
  • A8N-FIT-1 - matched when VM data exists.
  • A8N-STO-1 - matched when network mounts are found.
  • N-STO-2 - matched when NFS is exporting local directory.

Updated reports texts

Updated reports texts to provide more information on the GKE Enterprise VM Runtime journey.

Updates for version 1.14.0

On January 17, 2023, we released Migrate Fit Assessment 1.14.0.

Features

Report applications fit to Google containers platforms

Added a new report category to help you focus assessment report on applications fit for Google containers platforms—GKE Enterprise, GKE, Autopilot and Cloud Run. When generating a report you can ask to include only assessment to containers platforms using the following command:

./mfit report --format html --target-platform containers --full > REPORT_NAME.html

Fit assessment of JBoss and Apache 2 applications

The Migrate Fit Assessment tool can assess JBoss and Apache 2 applications fit for containerization to GKE, GKE Enterprise, and Cloud Run platforms. To learn more about JBoss and Apache 2 containerization, see the Migrate to Containers 1.14.0 release notes.

Guest level collection without the need for root permission

Updated the Migrate Fit Assessment collection scripts for Linux to enable running them through sudo. The added capability allows you to run Linux guest collection script with sudo and without the need for a root user.

The Linux guest collection script will attempt to run using passwordless sudo. This change takes effect in all Linux guest collection methods, such as:

  • mfit discover ssh
  • mfit discover vsphere guest
  • mfit discover vsphere guest all
  • When running the collection script manually and using mfit discover import.

If a passwordless sudoer credentials are supplied, the Linux guest collection script uses sudo, resulting in fuller, and more reliable collection results.

Note that sudoer permissions that require a password prompt are not supported for this feature. In this case, the script runs with the permissions of the original user.

New detailed assessment report added under experimental flag

A new design of the detailed assessment report is now available running the command ./mfit report --format html --full > REPORT_NAME.html --experimental.

The new design introduces enhanced filtering and text-based search to help you locate candidate workloads for modernization.

Detailed assessment report

Changes

Deprecation of --user flag in Linux collection script

Previously, running with a non-root user required supplying a --user flag to the Linux guest collection script. This is no longer required, and the --user flag is ignored and entered a deprecation period.

Fixed

Renamed the discover ssh connect-timeout flag

Renamed the flag called --timeout in the discover ssh command to --connect-timeout. The flag can be used with the native SSH client. The new name removes the overlap with the global --timeout flag.

Failure when providing embedded SSH client with no authentication

Fixed failure in case the discover ssh command without authentication parameters. When using the embedded SSH client and providing no identity file and no password or an empty one, panic occurred instead of stating unsuccessful authentication.

Error when failing to create a tar file in Linux guest collection

If the collection script fails to create the required tar file, it throws an error. Previously, a failure to create a tar in the Linux guest collection script was ignored. From this version, an error message is displayed, and the script exits with status code 1.

Saving guest collection tar file to different location

To provide a different location for saving the collection tar file, you can use the --output flag to save it to the specified path. Previously, arguments supplied after the --output flag were ignored due to parsing issues.

Updates for version 1.13.1

On November 3, 2022 we released Migrate Fit Assessment 1.13.1.

Changes

Deprecated JSON v0 reports

We introduced changes in the structure of the generated JSON file to expand the scope of the assessment details report. Starting with release 1.13.1, the default JSON output will use the file structure version v1. To generate a JSON file in the previous version, apply the flag --json-v0.

./mfit report --format json --json-v0  <file.json>

The v0 JSON report is now deprecated. In Q1, 2023, v0 JSON report format will reach end of life. New releases of mFit will not support v0 JSON report generation.

Fixed

Decreased database file size

The SQLite database used by mFit has been optimized to reduce the disk space it consumes.

Fixed too many SQL parameters error

Fixed an error that might occur when running discover ls or report commands on an mFit installation with a very large number of discovered assets.

Updates for version 1.13.0

On October 18, 2022 we released Migrate Fit Assessment 1.13.0.

Changes

Enhanced vSphere guest collection at scale with scope option

You can now perform guest collection for a subset of VMs by applying a scope via the --path flag.

mfit discover vsphere guest all --url https://VSPHERE_URL --path dc-1/host/esx-1

Enhanced error reporting in RVTools import

RVTools discovery now identifies unsupported file formats and provides you with an error message on unsupported versions.

Fixed

Fixed RAM and storage size conversions in reports

Adjusted unit measures in reports to GiB instead of GB, inline with the internal units of measure.

Updates for version 1.12.1

Features

Perform guest collection at scale

You can now perform guest collections in parallel for all VMs managed by a single VMware vCenter. This comes in handy for collecting information from large quantities of VMs having the same credentials.

To collect guest-level information from multiple VMs, run:

mfit discover vsphere guest all --url https://VSPHERE_URL

Changes

Update to Cloud Run fit assessment

Cloud Run fit assessment has been updated to accommodate improvements done in Cloud Run resources limitations. Previous values were 4 CPUs, 16 GB of memory, and the new limits are 8 CPUs, 32 GB of memory. See details at Cloud Run Quotas and Limits.

Unify report and assess commands

We simplified the process of assessing data and generating a report, by combining the two commands into one. In previous releases, you needed to first perform an assessment ($ mfit assess), and then you could generate a report on the collected data. Now you can run the report command, and the assessment is done automatically. The report command now has an optional --target-platform flag.

The available options are: gcp, anthos, anthosbm and all. Each option specifies a different set of journeys to evaluate. If you don't specify a target platform, all journeys are assessed.

  • gcp assesses shift journeys to Compute Engine, Google Cloud VMware Engine, and containerization journeys to Google Kubernetes Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine Autopilot and Cloud Run.

  • anthos assesses shift to Google Distributed Cloud and containerization journeys to Google Kubernetes Engine and Cloud Run.

  • anthosbm is equivalent to anthos.

  • all assesses all possible journeys.

With this change, the report sample command replaces the now deprecated assess sample command.

Fixed

Fix mentions of private / public previews in html reports

In previous releases, any containerize target is shown as private preview. Now only Tomcat targets are shown as public preview.

mfit collection scripts cleanup temporary directory

In previous releases, collection scripts would create a temp directory on the guest, but didn't remove it. In the latest release, collection scripts automatically remove the temp directory.

Fix wrong RAM size conversions

We corrected a conversion where base 2 was mixed base 10 (MiB vs MB) and resulted in inaccurate conversions.

Windows guest collection

We fall back to non-WMI based collection methods for some data to avoid sporadic failures.

Updates for version 1.12.0

Changes

  • Assessment of VMs to Google Distributed Cloud Attach mode was removed from the executive report and detailed assessment report.
  • Modified the default assessment of Google Distributed Cloud as part of the executive report. In order to assess VMs for Google Distributed Cloud you must run the command: mfit assess --target-platform anthosbm
  • You'll see a warning if you issue a CLI command that attempts to assess an empty DB.
  • Updated the default behavior of assess –target-platform flag to use the all option.

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug in the executive summary section which caused inaccurate counts of high CPU and high memory VMs.
  • Improved the sorting on the fit assessment full report, so that results sorted by rule ID are correctly sorted.
  • Improved the fit assessment full report middle chart sorting so rows sorted from highest to lowest aggregated fit score.
  • Fixed an incorrect regex in the Linux collect script affecting Tomcat assessment.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented correct detection of centos OS version name and caused empty OS names on fit assessment full report.
  • Fixed a bug which caused duplicated VM information when VMs were discovered multiple times.
  • Improved handling of partially collected VM information which may lead to inconsistent data. Warn users when collecting an asset with the inconsistent VM information and skip storing the VM data.

Updates for version 1.11.3

Features

  • Fit assessment cost analysis - Use this new section on the fit assessment report to estimate the cost of running modernized workloads in Google Cloud. The report groups your VMs by modernization strategy and shows the estimated costs by strategy, as well as an estimated total cost. Cost analysis will help you decide whether a low-effort or high modernization strategy suits your needs. To view the cost benefits of a modernization journey, you need to run the collection scripts on an assessed VM. For more detailed instructions, see Discover and collect data.

  • Improved recommendation listing for fit journeys - The full fit assessment report now sorts journeys based on their fit and the sum severity of all failed conditions. The first journey in the list has the highest recommendation, with journeys of higher failure severity ranking lower.

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where features were only calculated when running the discover command.

Updates for version 1.11.2

Features

  • Report filter – A new filter was added on the fit assessment detailed report to enable filtering VMs which have fit for specific journeys. Once the filter is applied, only VMs which have a fit for the selected journey are listed.

  • StratoZone – Added mFIT collection script to StratoZone StratoProbe collector 5.0.2.1. The information required to make an assessment is collected by StratoProbe collector, and is made available for assessment for users that have deployed StratoProbe.

Fixed

  • Removed the fit score column from full report table for better readability.

  • Updated fit assessment summary report to resolve mismatch of percentage presented on the summary part and guidance part of the report.

  • Changed the severity information to use text instead of numeric value on the summary report.

  • Fixed wrong identification of OS which was marked as Other OS on fit assessment reports.

Changes

  • Added the option to purge the fit assessment local database by using the command mfit discover purge-db

  • Added information on the existence of VMware tools in the CSV report. To allow users to automate guest level data collection through automated scripts.

  • Added a (--minimal) flag to Windows collection script which helps to minimize the amount of collected information and provide only the specific information required for assessing containerization to Windows IIS applications.

  • Added the option to manually check for newer versions of the fit assessment tool by using the command mfit version --check.

Updates for version 1.11.1

  • Bug fixes.

Updates for version 1.11.0

  • Executive summary report – This release includes a new type of report, and a change in the default behavior. The new executive summary report gives you an overview of your modernization journeys. At a high level, the report sorts your modernization journeys into two different buckets: low effort versus high modernization. Looking at these two extremes, and the benefits and effort required, should help you make key business decisions. In addition, there are subsections of the report that show the fit and technical limitations of migrating VMs (lift and shift analysis), refactoring to containers, and on-premises VM modernization (via shifting or attaching VMs to Google Distributed Cloud). The default report type is the new executive summary report; in previous releases, the default report was a detailed report.
  • Assess workloads for migrating to Google Cloud VMware Engine – The fit assessment tool added new assessment capability to assess workloads for lift and shift to Google Cloud VMware Engine.

Updates for version 1.10.0

The fit assessment tool for version 1.10.0 adds new functionality, including: