inventory of guest operating systems
I wanted to create a report/graph that shows the Guest Operating System and be able to filter it down to Cluster and display the Guest VM's Name. I was able to produce a graph with a breakdown of the...
View ArticleVM Storage Right Size
Hi all, looking at "VM Storage Right Size" and the very program that is telling me this info (SWVM) is reporting it has 192Gb of free space. Can I suppress this somehow? As SWVM is an OVF Package, Im...
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Sorting problems with widgets
When I make a trends widget, it allows clicking on each header to sort the values. These values are treated as pure text and don't sort in the correct order. I'm wondering if this is a bug,...
View ArticleReassociating VMWare clients to Hosts
Hi everyone,We recently had an unsolved problem where SAM (IVIM in particular) wasn't polling some of our VCenter servers properly. This problem was not able to be fixed in spite of a lot of work with...
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Announcing GA of Virtualization Manager Service Release 6.1.1
VMAN is now generally available in the Customer Portal for all customers on Active Maintenance. Several important issues were addressed in this Service Release including: Significant security updates...
View ArticleSample (Performance) Data Collection Intervals & Retention
So I was reading the VMan Admin guide the other day (everyone does that, right?) I stumbled across something that I thought was important enough to write a post about so that, when I go searching for...
View Articleremoving a collector in virtualization manager
I cannot seem to find where this is done. anyone mind giving me a quick set of instructions on how to do it?
View ArticleApplication Template for Virtualization Manager?
We are in the process of rolling out VMAN and I realized that I don't really know how to monitor the viability of the application via SAM. On the master appliance there is the hyper9 user running the...
View Articlevmware account privilege
Hi at some point I found a doc listing exactly what was the necessary rights for the user account in Vmware that is used by Vman to collect data... I can't find it again. anyone got an idea ?...
View ArticleData collection fails for some vCenter Servers after upgrading to...
A new KB article was posted today to the address issue where Virtualization Manager 6.1.1 fails to connect to vCenter after being upgraded from version 4.0 or below. The issue is caused by the RSA key...
View Article"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...
View ArticleQuery vm.totalStorageSize not working
Good morning/afternoon SW Junkies, I am having the following issue both vm.totalStorageSize and vm.totalStorageSizetotal query do not work on my Virtualization Manager, zero bytes reported , for the...
View ArticleStill hunting phantom snapshots
I have a feeling that I have significant opportunity to hunt down and eliminate many phantom snapshots. Unfortunately, the Orphaned VMs report is broken in version 6.1 and later, but the Alert for VM...
View ArticleSpace used by vmware.log files
Hello, I am new to Virtualization Manager, and really like it.Can you please tell me if there is a way to report on the space being consumed by the vmware.log files for each vm on the datastore, and...
View ArticleView Limitation fails in NOC View
We have some wall mounted screens and use the "NOC Dashboard" view to keep an eye on our equipment. My team are responsible for only a few, of the thousands of devices we have, so the "View Limitation"...
View ArticlePurge all data from database
Hi, I searched around a bit online and through the manual, and cannot seem to find the answer to this. Basically we had virtualization manager running for a while, but carried out some extensive...
View ArticleVMWare DPM - How does VMan deal with this?
Hi All I have been asked the question by our virtualisation team "If we switch on DPM (Distributed Power Management) within VMWare how will Solarwinds Deal with it?" At present we have not purchased...
View ArticleData collection fails for some vCenter Servers after upgrading to...
A new KB article was posted today to the address issue where Virtualization Manager 6.1.1 fails to connect to vCenter after being upgraded from version 4.0 or below. The issue is caused by the RSA key...
View ArticleIVIM versus Virtualization Manager
Hey all, I was wondering if there was anyone out there who was running IVIM (the virtualization tab in NPM) side-by-side w/ Virtualization Manager. Are there any major benefits to this approach? We're...
View ArticleSkip certain volume label or drive letter in the Guest Storage Space...
Dear,I would like to ignore the S:\ drive letter (label SWAP) from this report.Since the pagefile is stored on that drive and the disks have been created with only a few extra 100 mb's, all my VM's are...
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