Configuring guest disk size alerts
I am new to Virtualization Manager. We have an VM environment with 30 VM hosts and a NetApp storage array. Quite a few of our VMs have attached luns and I am not getting notifications when the guest...
View ArticleChange alerting for specific VM's
Hi All,Can someone advise where I can find documentation or give some step-by-step instructions on how you would effectively 'ok' some alerts so they stop being raised on certain VM's?For example we...
View ArticleRoot password
Hi,What is the root password for the appliance? I have had a power failure on the machine running the virtual instance of Solarwinds Virtualization Manager, which means i need to run fsck before it can...
View ArticleDoes ORION interface with Virtualization Manager like it does with Storage...
I need to have a link from Orion to Virtualization Manager. Does it provide this, something like with Storage Manager?
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Dashboard reports only showing 4 days in graphs
Hi, I have made a couple of different dashboards that contains reports for a couple of customers. It looks like this: If we look at the config for this widget, it looks like this:As you can see, I...
View ArticleHow to Monitor Hyper-v & VMWare Servers...
HelloI am New to Solarwinds. Please let me know how to monitor Hyper-V and VMWare Servers in Solarwinds? I have added Hyper-V Server but it can only be monitored with the default windows template....
View Articlecreating virtualization manager alert
hi guys,need help to create a new alert...im not familiar with those query strings...is there any refferrence for this? orion/NPM alert is way more friendly and straight forward even for...
View ArticleRealistic 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...
View ArticleHow to monitor VMAN for health?
I'm looking to monitor VMAN for health much like I do for STM. I'd like to know how I'd go about monitoring if the services are currently up and running. Also if there is any other way to monitor VMAN...
View ArticleVM disk growth question
Is there a way that I can create a chart to show me which VMs in a datastore are eating up space during a specific time frame? So for example, I have one datastore that had grown about 25GB over a...
View ArticleSign Up for the Virtualization Manager 6.0 Release Candidate
The Virtualization Manager 6.0 RC is coming up shortly, please sign up here. Some of the great features you will be able to try: Integration with Orion More Hyper-V storage and cluster data...
View ArticleHow to list VMware snapshots and space used by a VM
I am new to Virtualization Manager and trying to get used to the navigation as things aren't very intuitive for me in this product. I have found multiple places where an alert or trend will show that...
View ArticleCan the web console redirect HTTP to HTTPS?
Hello Thwack community,Just got VMAN v. 5.1.1.10000 (virtual appliance) up and running, and was wondering how I can make the web console redirect HTTP users to HTTPS.Obviously I don't want users...
View ArticleLooking for a way to parse out the internal date created field
I am trying to create a trend for when a VM is created and segment by month. The only way I can see to do this is to parse out the internaldatecreated field to only give the month and year (not the day...
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How to embed vMan in Orion WEB UI?
Hi guys, When adding http://swvm/ to the list of external sites in Orion and browse to the menu i get this: I tried opening it in another browser. Cleared all cache data and tried again on different...
View ArticleUse AD Group for authentication
I am trying to use an AD group as the authentication method for Virtualization Manager, I can get the AD portion working without much issue but it looks like I will have to use an LDAP query in-order...
View ArticleVirtualization Manager and Active Directory Authentication
Good Morning All. I have been working on getting Virtualization Manager set up in our test cluster. Everything seems to be working well, collection schedules are running and the gathered data has been...
View ArticleIs multi-hypervisor support a must-have in management tools?
Hello, fellow thwackers!Let me ask you a question: When you look at buying virtualization management tools, whether you’re looking for tools to perform comprehensive management of the virtual...
View ArticleCurrent KPIs and long-term capacity are equally important metrics
When people hear the term “key performance indicators”, they often think of management metrics. But, if you’re here, you also know – or at least suspect – that there are a variety of key performance...
View ArticleVirtualization Manager OnDemand Report Chargeback
Dear all, Please help to enable work OnDemand chargeback report. In our chargeback report is creating empty excel file.Empty excel file attachedHow fix Chargeback report in this situation. Thanks
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