I'm trying to create my first alert to trigger when an uplink from an ESXi host to a distributed switch changes. I cannot determine where I would look for the object.
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ESXi uplink check
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IPAM Integration with VMware
Hi,
If you deploy virtual machines frequently, what is the desired workflow for assigning IP addresses?
We are looking at enhancing IPAM API (a.k.a. SWIS or Orion SDK) as described here: Add SWIS features to IPAM. The ultimate goal is using this API to integrate with VMware vCenter Orchestrator in order to improve/automate VM deployment by assigning IP addresses via IPAM.
I would like to discuss details of the workflow in detail -- if you are interested in such discussion, please reply to this post, or send me a direct message.
Thanks,
Jiri
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How to Bulk Add ESX Hosts as Orion Nodes in new Orion VMAN 8.2?
Either SolarWInds completely overlooked this when changing how Virtualization Objects are added to Orion, or I am completely missing the setting to do this for us.
Previously you could just run a one hop Network Discovery with the vCenter server as the only IP address. You just had to put in valid VMware credentials and Everything would get brought in as Orion nodes and with the VMAN appliance integrated it would automatically marry the data up. You could even put in WMI and SNMP credentials on the appropriate pages of the Discovery wizard and it would even scan and bring in all of the VM's as well. It worked great for bulk adding all of our ESX hosts and VM's into Orion in one big swoop.
Now however, the page in the Discovery wizard where you used to put in the VMware credentials has been replaced by the "Add VMWare VCenter or Hyper-V Devices" button. Clicking this button exits you from the Discovery Settings wizard and takes you to the new Add Virtualization Objects page. I thought to myself, "OK, cool, so we just add the vCenter server and it will now automatically add the ESX Hosts in for us. I hope it also adds in the VM's like the old Discovery Wizard does too, but as long as it at least gets the Hosts I'll be happy.". I figured surely they wouldn't overlook that, right?
Well, they did... Adding the vCenter server this way only brings the vCenter server in as an Orion node. The ESX hosts are only brought into Orion as "Orion VMAN" nodes. This means the hosts are not pinged by Orion every 2 minutes, they are not polled for additional metrics like CPU, SNMP, HARDWARE HEATLH, or any of the other data that Orion gathers. It also means you can't assign custom property values to them or anything. This is a HUGE miss by SolarWinds. We have nearly 300 ESX hosts between our two vCenters. Clicking on each one individually and choosing "Manage This Node" is just not feasible.
The only other thing I can think to do would be to do a SWQL\SQL query to get a list of all the ESX Host IP's from the VIM.Hosts table, then run a "Ping Only" discovery against that list of IP's. It should marry them up once brought in (I hope). This is a pain though and is a big step backwards compared to how it used to work.
Luckily I had two Discovery Profiles saved that are setup the way I described above. Running them worked just like it used to and brought in all the VMware Hosts and VM's as both Orion and Orion VMAN nodes. But what if these profiles ever get deleted? What if we get a new vCenter server that I need to Discover?
Please SolarWinds, tell me you have a function built somewhere that replaces the features I listed above? We are a large environment, so when you remove functionality that allowed us to bulk manage things in Orion that really hampers us and makes our job harder. What is SolarWinds vision for Orion VMAN with regards to monitoring hosts? Do you intend for your users to just have to click on each host individually to manage them as Orion Nodes? Do you intend for us to only manage them as VMAN Nodes and thus no longer get hardware health or other important data that is collected by Orion core? I just don't understand how such a major thing was overlooked? I scoured the admin guides and documentation last night and could not find a single word about adding hosts in (other than adding standalone esx hosts). Our use case is not unique by any stretch of the imagination, so how are other users handling this? I really don't get it at all. It is baffling to me how this oversight exists... Or, like I said, maybe I'm just missing something. I sincerely hope that is the case.
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How to alert on vMan Component Volumes?
Environment: vMan Orion 8.1 (no appliance) and Orion 2017.3 with SAM 6.5
Objective: Alert on disk utilization from any VMs managed by vMan. These VMs are only managed by vMan and not managed by SAM thus the VMs are not managed nodes from Orion perspective. In other words, I like to alert when vMan VM Component Volumes object shows in Red:
I don't see any option to specify these objects and triggers when building alerts.
Thanks
j
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Virtualization Manager Versus IVIM
Can someone explain the difference between Virtualization Manager and IVIM? What do I get from Virtualization Manager that I don't get from IVIM? Does it require a separate machine and cannot be installed on the same machine as NPM and all the other modules?
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How to chart Component Volumes Historic Data?
Environment: vMan Orion 8.1 (no appliance) and Orion 2017.3 with SAM 6.5
Objective: Chart VM Component Volume historic free space and used%. These VMs are only managed by vMan not managed by SAM thus the VMs are not managed nodes from Orion perspective.
I can't seem to find a widget that allows me create a historic chart like Past 30 Days. The widget isn't clickable that I can't drill down like SAM managed-nodes volumes do. SAM has built-in views of disk volumes of managed nodes. Now that vMan is navtive to Orion and shouldn't it be done the same way?
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Recommendation Engine
Shows disable on additional web servers but enabled on main poller.
If you try to enable it on additional web servers, you get an error that it cannot communicate with the main poller.
If you point your browser to the main poller, it shows enabled.
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vman 8.1 integrated with Sam and NPM , vcenter credentials not working
Newly installed vman 8.1 integrated with Sam 6.5 and NPM 12.2
, vcenter credentials not working
Output:
Test failed. Cannot login with selected Vcenter or ESX host Credential
According to the vmware administrator he also tried other valid credentials.
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How to access VMWare vCenter Tags
We are looking to find the Tags attached to the VM servers from VMWare vCenter. We are running vCenter 5.5.
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VMware 6.5 and high VM latency
We just upgraded to our vCenter and Hosts to VMware 6.5 update 1. After the upgrade we are seeing high vm latency in vman. Datastore latency seems to be reporting correctly, but vm latency is reporting things like 100,000y. If you look at the vm performance within vCenter and or ESXi top we are not seeing those latency's and performance is as expected. We are running vman 7.1 which is supposed to be supported in 6.5. Was wondering if anyone has seen this.
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Installing Virtualization Manager
How to install Virtualization Manager in existing Solar Winds server .I already have 8 components s with that how to include this also.
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"vmStatsProvider" causing Solarwinds to give false "down" alerts?
Hi Everyone,
Does anyone have experience Solarwinds giving false "down" alerts on with virtual servers?
It happened on a server yesterday morning, twice. We received alerts from Solarwinds that a particular server was down around 7:00 and 8:00 AM.
In looking at the application logs for that time on the server I spied numerous line items:
| Information | 10/9/2014 7:08 | vmStatsProvider | 256 | General | The "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2". | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 7:08 | vmStatsProvider | 258 | Guest Library API | The "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 7:06 | vmStatsProvider | 256 | General | The "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2". | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 7:06 | vmStatsProvider | 258 | Guest Library API | The "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 6:57 | vmStatsProvider | 256 | General | The "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2". | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 6:57 | vmStatsProvider | 258 | Guest Library API | The "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 6:55 | vmStatsProvider | 256 | General | The "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2". | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 6:55 | vmStatsProvider | 258 | Guest Library API | The "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 6:46 | vmStatsProvider | 256 | General | The "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2". | |||||||||
| Information | 10/9/2014 6:46 | vmStatsProvider | 258 | Guest Library API | The "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. | |||||||||
If I understand this correctly these are coming from the VMWare tools that is installed on the virtual instance?
Can this be causing Solarwinds to see the server being down?
Thanks everyone,
Cheryl
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Additional Webserver
Good morning!
We recently got the secondary webserver so that we can set up an external view for our Orion setup. I'm still fiddling with some of it, but I'm running into an issue with the Virtualization Manager - namely, we don't want that to be part of our external Orion website, but it seems to have installed automatically when we did the NPM install. We still need Virtualization Manager to stay integrated with the main Orion server and be accessible to anybody who goes to that site, but we don't want it to be an option if somebody connects externally.
I found this link regarding removing it: Uninstall Virtualization Manager
But that seems a little dangerous (that 'also deletes the database' part especially), and when I started going through it the settings all seem to deal with our main server, and not the external one.
I also found this link: Uninstall the SolarWinds Integrated Virtual Infrastucture Monitor (IVIM) - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support
But when I go through that process on the second webserver I get a warning that uninstalling it will break the Orion products.
Does anybody have any experience with this situation? I'd just like to be a little more certain I'm not going to break things before trying to remove it from our secondary server.
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VMs With More Allocated Space Than Used
Hey folks,
In VMan, in the "All Alerts" dashboard widget, there are always 5ish alerts flagged on topics more related to optimization than actual issues. While this awareness is all fine and dandy, the perfectionist in me really doesn't like having near-permanent alerts active. To me, if an alerted state is constant/acceptable/normal, it isn't an alert. That said, I do want to be able to see the information contained in the alert, so I'm averse to disabling it (it just would be nice if it was in an "Optimization" section/dashboard, but I digress...).
Anyways, the alert in question is "VMs With More Allocated Space Than Used". My question to the community is: How do you address this alert in your environment?
I'm primarily a Windows shop, running vSphere 5 (Enterprise Plus) w/ 3PAR storage and enough wiggle room to svMotion stuff around, if it is worth the effort. I've already adjusted the alert to assess on 10GB difference, rather than 1GB, because virtually ever guest of mine has that much excess due to Windows patching, etc.
In your realm, do you use sdelete.exe to zero the space and then Storage vMotion to re-thin? Or do you use a 3rd party utility? Or...
Let me know! It'd be great to have actionable steps associated with these alerts so we can all get to states where the "All Alerts" widget is green.
~Chris
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VMAN 7.1 to 8 Upgrade
So I was getting ready to upgrade Orion from 12.1 to 12.2. We are running the VMAN 7.1 appliance. The new upgrade process says the new VIM is not compatible with our 7.1 appliance. Documentation I'm finding while filled with a lot of options/info is kinda confusing on which to follow.
12.2 now has a VMAN 8 poller integrated on the main Orion server from what I understand. It says you can use the synchronization wizard to move off the appliance. But I also found documents that say I need to go from 7.1 to 7.2 yet 7.2 is not on the download page.
I'm surprised there aren't more posts on going to 8 yet.
Hoping to get a few tips from here instead of contacting support since it isn't urgent and support can take a long time.
Thanks
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VM CPU Underallocated recommendation bug
Oddly enough, this bug/issue is triggered by another SW product, Log & Event Manager. When I loaded up the vSphere appliance with the default resources (2 vCPUs), I noticed that VMan was alerting "VM CPU Underallocated". When I looked, though, it recommended "Increase 2 to 2". Hmm...
Well, it did look busy, so I raised the virtual appliance to 4 vCPUs. Now the alert is active again and suggests: "Increase 4 to 4". Am I missing something? That's not a recommendation and the virtual appliance isn't even using half of what it could now that it has 4 vCPUs (it's using the MHz from about 2 vCPUs).
Thanks,
Chris
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Issue with Virtualisation Collector 7.2 ova file
Anyone know how I can get round this?
I've downloaded it several times, on different machines and tried to set it up in virtualbox and an esxi 6.7 host all running on laptops - trying to test the upgrade path to get from 7.0 to 7.2 and then to 8.1 but the collectors for both 7.2 and 8.1 don't seem to want to play
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Export to Sharepoint
We're trying to present certain dashboards or dashboard elements via Sharepoint, and we can briefly do it via the instructions in the manual. The export only works once, however, during the session during which the Web part on Sharepoint is created. Once the Web browser is closed, the Sharepoint Web part indicates that "The widget token is no longer valid" and then prompts for a user name and password. Is there a way to persistently link to a Hyper9 widget or other element from Sharepoint such that it will simply display?
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Realistic capacity metrics
Hi, everyone,
I am trying to create an alert/report indicating realistic capacity depletion. Unfortunately, the default VMware capacity calculation is based on peak VM size and can easily be thrown askew by one oversized VM. The default VMan capacity calculation seems to be similarly affected. For example, I have a cluster with 55% memory utilization and 11% CPU utilization, but VMware HA indicates that I don't have any spare host capacity, and VMan indicates that I have room for 2.5 more average-sized VMs, which strikes me as unrealistic. Is there a way to a) tweak capacity planning assumptions to be a little more realistic and b) alert when a capacity threshold is exceeded based on that calculation? I would ideally like to calculate consumption based on number of hosts in a cluster and have at least one host's worth of resources free, so if anyone has computed something like that, I'd love to hear how.
Thanks,
Tom
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Datastore queue depth, are you out there?
ESX datastore queue depth
Virtualization engineers are curious lot, especially now that we've given them access to the pre-production VMAN environment. With all of the stats out there, of course they would find the *one* stat that I couldn't find in the tool.
Is the ESX datastore queue depth (current queue depth) captured and reported? I'm not looking for configured max queue length though it would be really cool to be able to compare the max queue length and current queue length.
Anyone?
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