Quantcast
Channel: THWACK: Popular Discussions - Virtualization Manager
Viewing all 10631 articles
Browse latest View live
↧

VMAN 8 - appliance discontinued, VMAN becomes incorporated in to main poller

September 28, 2017, 1:51 am
$
0
0

I welcome the integration of VMAN with Solarwinds, but now it seems the CentOS appliance is being discontinued and the functionality (or some of it) is being incorporated in to the main poller.   We paid a fortune for the appliance to add functionality to Solarwinds and provide extra graphs and reporting, and maintenance is 60% higher than our SAM ALX license.  Is this really good value for money?  We wanted to keep the load off our main poller but Solarwinds are saying to install VMAN right there on the main poller, and transfer the database in to the Solarwinds database.  My problem is;

 

- the main poller is heavily used (it's a separate physical machine)

- the additional poller is heavily used (VMs now but will become a physical soon)

- the database server is a separate physical, HP Blade with integral SSD.

 

This keeps the load off our production ESX systems, it keeps the database I/O (which is intense) off the SAN, and doesn't interfere with production systems.  It doesn't slow them down, and if they go down it does not, it's independent.

 

Now we're being told we need to install VMAN 8 (isn't that a quite big product) on to our main poller, loading it up even further, and making the Solarwinds database very big.  I don't know how big the data is in the VMAN system - and technical support didn't answer my question either.   We'll need to review whether we keep VMAN since I'm not sure it is worth the hasstle of trying to push the main poller to its limits, or causing I/O issues with the SQL database. 

 

Who has been brave and done it?  I can't find any VMAN videos newer than 2 years ago.  Normally as soon as a new release is there I'm deploying it, but this is such a radical change that I'm putting the intended update on hold, and we were just about to renew our maintenance - that will have to go on hold too.   What happens if we just keep VMAN as it is?   At some point I'm guessing we won't be able to update Solarwinds because it will complain VMAN is too out-of-date.

↧
Search

Orphaned VMDKs Widget - The most useful and worthless tool of VMAN 8.1

January 29, 2018, 10:47 am
$
0
0

I recently opened a case requesting help discerning the "Orphaned VMDK" widget.

 

On its surface, this widget is extremely helpful. It shows VMDKs that are not attached to VMs which I can go and delete to reclaim storage.

 

However...

 

The widget is only useful in its vanilla form. By that I mean I asked the support rep how I can get data out of it for a report, as I needed to create a report for a group of individuals who did not have access to the Solarwinds console. Below are the steps we went through to attempt this, all of which failed.

 

  1. Tried to reproduce the widget in the reports section - Failed
    1. Reason - There is no report option for Orphaned VMDKs
  2. Tried to create a report schedule that ran the widget on a reoccurring schedule - Failed
    1. Reason - The emailed link returned a non functional URL
  3. Tried to export the widget data from the dashboard itself - Failed
    1. Only thing that was found to export was a pretty much useless PDF
    2. I even attempted converting the PDF to a csv or excel sheet, was not pretty

 

Anyone else been able to do this? I have around 2000 orphaned VMDKs at the moment. Most of these are results from data restores on LUN snapshots, but there are some I know I can delete. But I wanted Solarwinds VMAN to give me some kind of readable report.

 

To say the least I am a bit frustrated. This is the conclusion support had:

 

"Good day. I'm updating this case about the Orphaned VMDK. Unfortunately, I can't find a way to export the Chart to an excel file. Also, it seems that we are not allowed to provide the tables and computation for the orphaned vmdks. As discussed, this is a known limitation on the reporting side since the product can't convert a chart to a xls file yet"

 

Has anyone else cracked this code??

↧
↧

VMAN ESXi Hosts and VMs

November 26, 2018, 11:11 am
$
0
0

When adding a node, how would I know that the VMAN Orion poller is being used?

 

What I see when adding a node under the define node section: polling hostname or IP address, polling method (external node, status only, most devices, windows and hyper-v servers, windows and linux servers) and under additional monitoring options i see (check boxes for UCS manager credentials, poll for vmware and poll for F5.  I don't see an option to select the polling method (i.e. VMan). 

 

Several of our ESXi hosts have been added but they show up as unmanaged, since they are added why would they be unmanaged since Orion should start polling as soon as they are added?

↧

VMware Polling / SNMPv3

January 16, 2018, 9:05 am
$
0
0

Hi All,

 

I thougnt I'd post the question here in case anyone can help or has the same query.

 

The site I am working on is looking at VMAN, NPM and SAM as a base product set. This particular query is around VMware vCenter as well as ESXi polling.

 

I have added a vCenter Appliance as a monitored Node using Status Only: ICMP and Poll for VMware Providing creds.

 

When I clicked through the vCenter Node to get to an ESXi host, it was unmanaged to I added this in the same way. The wizard stated that I was polling the ESXi host via the vCenter and that I should use Status Only: ICMP as the polling method.

 

From what I understand, if I want to view VM interfaces stats (i.e. virtual NICS) using an Agent this does not count against my NPM interface count, which is great.

 

What I'm unclear about is how I monitor network interfaces on the ESXi hosts themselves. From what I can see, this isn't done via vCenter so I assume I would need to enable SNMP in order to get this information, which goes against the Add Node wizard guidance.

 

On this point also, if I want the vCenter to be able to send SNMPv3 traps to Orion, presumably I need to add it as an SNMPv3 managed host?

 

Unless I'm missing something, I can't see how ESXi interface statistics get monitored via any other means than SNMP.

 

Has anyone got any more info on this that might help?

 

Many thanks!

 

M

↧

VMWare ESXi v5.5/6.5 Port Requirements

February 21, 2019, 1:19 pm
↧
↧

Performance Metric Definitions

April 8, 2019, 9:14 am
$
0
0

I'm working on definitions for the metrics being monitored with VMAN. I have a few questions about them too. This is the list I have so far:

CPU Used: Percentage utilization of CPU resources.

source:

 

CPU Usage: Measured in MHz for the amount of CPU Usage.

source:

 

CPU Swap Wait: Swap wait time is time spent waiting for memory to be swapped in. When the VM is waiting for memory, it is not doing work.

source: https://www.dynatrace.com/support/doc/appmon/installation/deployment-guide/additional-deployment-best-practices/virtualization-best-practices/

 

CPU Ready: CPU Ready Time is a vSphere metric that records the amount of time a virtual machine is ready to use CPU but was unable to schedule time because all CPU resources (on a ESX host) are busy.

source: http://houseofbrick.com/cpu-ready-time-blog-part-i/

 

CPU Max Limited: Sys|Resource CPU Max Limited (%) (1 min. average) Percent of resource CPU that is limited to the maximum

amount. Average value during a one-minute period.

source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations-Manager/6.7/vrealize-operations-manager-67-reference-guide.pdf

 

CPU Load (On Host): Percentage of CPU utilization on the host.

source:

 

CPU Load: Percentage of CPU utilization by the guest os.

source:

 

CPU Latency: Percentage of time the VM is unable to run because it is contending for access to the physical CPUs.

source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations-Manager/7.0/com.vmware.vcom.metrics.doc/GUID-1322F5A4-DA1D-481F-BBEA-99B228E96AF2.html

 

 

CPU Demand: This metric is an indicator of the overall demand for CPU resources by the workloads in the cluster. It shows the percentage of CPU resources that all the virtual machines might use if there were no CPU contention or CPU limits set. It represents the average active CPU load in the past five minutes.

source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations-Manager/6.7/vrealize-operations-manager-67-reference-guide.pdf

 

Memory Usage (On Host): Percentage utilization of Memory resources on the host.

source:

 

Memory Usage: Percentage utilization of Memory resources on the guest os.

source:

 

Memory Granted: Amount of memory available for use.

source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations-Manager/6.7/vrealize-operations-manager-67-reference-guide.pdf

 

Memory Demand: Guest operating system demand in kilobytes

source:

 

Consumed Percent Memory Load:

source:

 

Consumed Memory Load:

source:

 

Balloon Memory Load: This metric shows the amount of memory currently used by the

virtual machine memory control. It is only defined at the VM level

source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations-Manager/6.7/vrealize-operations-manager-67-reference-guide.pdf


Do these definitions make sense to anyone and are there any that should be updated for what VMAN is actually reporting?  I am also seeing a weird thing. My  Memory Usage, Memory Granted, Memory Demand, Consumed Percent Memory Load, and Consumed Memory Load are all reporting 0 or --. Which doesn't make sense because I know the VM is using memory. Anyone have ideas as to why that may be? Thanks for your time and hope someone gets a little use out of having these definitions.

↧

"vmStatsProvider" causing Solarwinds to give false "down" alerts?

October 10, 2014, 11:52 am
$
0
0

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:

 

Information10/9/2014 7:08vmStatsProvider256GeneralThe "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2".
Information10/9/2014 7:08vmStatsProvider258Guest Library APIThe "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine.
Information10/9/2014 7:06vmStatsProvider256GeneralThe "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2".
Information10/9/2014 7:06vmStatsProvider258Guest Library APIThe "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine.
Information10/9/2014 6:57vmStatsProvider256GeneralThe "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2".
Information10/9/2014 6:57vmStatsProvider258Guest Library APIThe "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine.
Information10/9/2014 6:55vmStatsProvider256GeneralThe "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2".
Information10/9/2014 6:55vmStatsProvider258Guest Library APIThe "vmGuestLibrary" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine.
Information10/9/2014 6:46vmStatsProvider256GeneralThe "vmStatsProvider" is successfully initialized for this Virtual Machine. WMI namespace: "root\cimv2".
Information10/9/2014 6:46vmStatsProvider258Guest Library APIThe "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

↧

VMware 6.5 and high VM latency

January 18, 2018, 1:58 pm
$
0
0

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.

↧
Search

Remove "Shut Down" VM's

April 11, 2016, 7:30 am
$
0
0

Hi everyone

 

I have dedicated "Datacenter" created in VMware for LAB environment. Is there any easy way how I can remove VCenter "Datacenter" or VM's from VMAN?

All all VM's start's with LAB or CLONE

 

Thanks

↧
↧

VMAN - Additional VM settings reporting

August 21, 2019, 9:10 am
$
0
0

Hello Thwack,

 

I am looking to see if there is a specific way to report off the VMWare virtual machine settings, specifically, if a NIC is connected and/or if the checkbox for 'Connect at power on' is checked. I am not sure where in the DB this information would live or if Solarwinds is even polling on these VM settings. I wan unsuccessful in finding an answer thus far. I have attached a screenshot from VMWare.

 

The report I am looking to build would report on virtual machines that have connect at power on unchecked for when the machine reboots, the NIC will disconnect and sometimes goes unnoticed while people are troubleshooting the downtime. This is a preventative measure to assist when it goes unchecked.

 

Thank you!

↧

Unable to access the VMAN console

May 7, 2015, 6:27 pm
$
0
0

Hello,

 

Just trying my luck if someone could also experienced my issue in VMAN console. I upgraded my VMAN to the latest version but unfortunately, when I was trying to access the VMAN console in order to configure the license, I've noticed that my VMAN console is only loading and I received an error "Invalid Server response" when I tried to use the network setting? (https://ipaddress:5480).

↧

VMAN 8 - appliance discontinued, VMAN becomes incorporated in to main poller

September 28, 2017, 1:51 am
$
0
0

I welcome the integration of VMAN with Solarwinds, but now it seems the CentOS appliance is being discontinued and the functionality (or some of it) is being incorporated in to the main poller.   We paid a fortune for the appliance to add functionality to Solarwinds and provide extra graphs and reporting, and maintenance is 60% higher than our SAM ALX license.  Is this really good value for money?  We wanted to keep the load off our main poller but Solarwinds are saying to install VMAN right there on the main poller, and transfer the database in to the Solarwinds database.  My problem is;

 

- the main poller is heavily used (it's a separate physical machine)

- the additional poller is heavily used (VMs now but will become a physical soon)

- the database server is a separate physical, HP Blade with integral SSD.

 

This keeps the load off our production ESX systems, it keeps the database I/O (which is intense) off the SAN, and doesn't interfere with production systems.  It doesn't slow them down, and if they go down it does not, it's independent.

 

Now we're being told we need to install VMAN 8 (isn't that a quite big product) on to our main poller, loading it up even further, and making the Solarwinds database very big.  I don't know how big the data is in the VMAN system - and technical support didn't answer my question either.   We'll need to review whether we keep VMAN since I'm not sure it is worth the hasstle of trying to push the main poller to its limits, or causing I/O issues with the SQL database. 

 

Who has been brave and done it?  I can't find any VMAN videos newer than 2 years ago.  Normally as soon as a new release is there I'm deploying it, but this is such a radical change that I'm putting the intended update on hold, and we were just about to renew our maintenance - that will have to go on hold too.   What happens if we just keep VMAN as it is?   At some point I'm guessing we won't be able to update Solarwinds because it will complain VMAN is too out-of-date.

↧

You have reached your license limit for monitoring items using the VMAN Orion or Appliance poller.

April 20, 2018, 6:42 am
$
0
0
  1. I have a new install without a pre-existing VMAN Appliance to integrate or migrate
  2. "Virtualization Manager Primary v6 - Up to 112 Sockets" License is assigned to the Primary Orion Server
  3. I do NOT get the error "Error: The virtualization manager primary license could not be validated."
  4. Updating to VMAN 8.2 did not resolve the error
  5. Only 80 out of 112 potential sockets used
  6. 1 vCenter 6.0.0 server and 8 ESXi blades
  7. Moving monitoring from APE to Primary made no differerence

 

This article does not seem to apply Error: The virtualization manager primary license could not be validated - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support I recently updated the Primary and all of the APEs to the latest versions to verify this could not be the issue.

 

When I try to switch vCenter server from Basic to VMAN Orion monitoring, I get the error "You have reached your license limit for monitoring items using the VMAN Orion or Appliance poller."

VMAN limit Error

One would think that the license "Virtualization Manager Primary" would be the necessary license from the description, but I imagine as confusing as all of the docs are surrounding the transition from VMAN Appliance to VMAN Orion that some additional mysterious license is required.

VMAN Primary from License Manager

If some additional license is required, I would appreciate it if someone could point me to how to get a Trial for this license to see if that solves the problem.

 

Thanks.

↧
↧

Creation date & boot time for VM through VMAN

March 15, 2019, 1:11 am
$
0
0

Hi,

 

We have VMAN and we are looking for some information concerning the VM.

- The DateCreated is not accurate and seems to be moore a date related to VMAN than a true VM creation date.

- the Boot time is not always filled

 

We like to have both infromation to be able to determine

- the oldest VM

- the longest running time

 

Can you advise on this on where to find this accurate information or what is required for the info to be available ?

 

Cheers

↧

Error in Hyper-V (Could Not Poll)

December 29, 2015, 10:44 am
$
0
0

Any see this error

 

today morning It appeared the followingerror in theHyper-V servers asimage below

erro host.png


Didall proceduresfoundinSolarwinds, the last wasasthe theimage,whichisrequired tobe changedthe defaultcountofnumber3 for anumberit deemsbest, or simply clear theoption, madeto changeboth waysand withoutsuccessfullyrestartedthe services ofSolarwindsandran theWizardagainthe problempersists


erro poll hots vm.png

↧
Search

Monitoring RAID Status for ESXi Servers

January 6, 2016, 12:11 am
$
0
0

Hi!

 

Is VMan capable of monitoring the RAID Array status of ESXi servers? I specifically mean the direct-attached disks that are RAID-configured on a VMWare server.

 

Can't find anything in the VMan guide. Hope somebody can help.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Paulo

↧

Clarification of VMAN Free Additional Polling Engine (APE)

March 1, 2018, 5:13 pm
$
0
0

Is there documentation that more completely details the role, function, and implementation of the VMAN Free Additional Polling Engine (APE)?

(....what aspect of VMAN are they intended to be used for? ,   which installer would be used to install one?... )

thanks

↧
↧

VM Disk Latency Alerts

September 18, 2018, 7:16 am
$
0
0

Since upgrading our environment to ESXi/vCenter 6.5U2 we have been experiencing "VM Disk Latency" according to VMAN. Frequently it will show latency approaching 25 seconds! After hours of trying to find the cause of this latency we are starting to wonder if the data in Orion could be incorrect. We can not find any evidence of latency exceeding 8ms in vCenter nor on the hosts using esxtop.

 

Where is VMAN pulling the VM Disk stats from and how can I validate that an issue actually exists?

 

 

*Note: VMAN 8.2.1 HF1

↧

VMAN, ESXi, vCenter

November 21, 2018, 1:10 pm
$
0
0

There don't seem to be videos on adding ESXi hosts to Solarwinds for monitoring.  Also are there any recommendations as to what to monitor for ESXi 6.5?  Any KB articles on grouping ESXi hosts and creating alerts?

↧

Virtualization Manager Versus IVIM

June 6, 2016, 6:51 am
$
0
0

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? 

↧
Viewing all 10631 articles
Browse latest View live
Search
<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>