"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 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 ArticleVirtualization Manager - What is the Orion Module?
Inside the download for Virtualization Manager 6.2 there's a 800MB file called SolarWinds-Virtualization Manager Orion Module-v2.0-FullWithSql.exe What's is this application?
View ArticleVM Memory Overallocated
My widget does not list memory overallocated does not list any vms. Using the the rule of vm.memory:[2048 TO *] AND vm.powerstate:poweredOn AND vm.consumedPercentMemload.week:[0 TO .3] What do I edit...
View ArticleESXi Host does not appear in Virtualization Summary
I have added my vCenter server and 'supposedly' all of my VMware/ESXi hosts into inventory using Network Sonar Discovery. Everything was found perfectly, and when browsing Settings > Node &...
View ArticleEmail Notifications
I am trying to set up email notifications for certain things such as High CPU usage, memory usage, etc. I can't seem to get the email to send when this happens, where do I set this up to make this work?
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 ArticleIs there a report that shows iops for each VM over seven days?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
View ArticleDatastore queue depth, are you out there?
ESX datastore queue depthVirtualization 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...
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ESXi Status Alert
I am trying to setup an alert in Orion for when my ESX hosts are not in a good state. Orion will show the ESX status as down (as seen in the screenshot below) when there is a problem. This value is...
View Articleremove local datastores
Is there a way to remove the local datastores that are on a host from the widgets? since our local datastores only have the ESXi installation I just care about our SAN datastores. Wondering if there...
View ArticleChart show in years
Hello, I have one of my charts (could be others, not sure) that show up in years, instead of milliseconds.Does anyone have any idea why?It's probably a time setting somewhere, just not sure where to look.
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 ArticleVirtual Machine Latency Top-N:VM Latency Hour
Hi Everyone, I am new to the forum and also to the Virtualization Manager product so I was wondering if you could offer some advice please. One of the things I am using the product for is to try and...
View ArticleHigh Percent CPU Ready (%RDY)
CPU Ready (%RDY) is the percentage of time that a VM is ready to execute but has not been schedule for CPU time because it's waiting for a CPU to become available. This most often comes up when CPUs...
View ArticleSW - VMM
Good day people, I was wondering if it were possible to have the alert output what has changed on the VM Description: VMs that have had their properties changed in the last 14 daysTime Executed: Thu,...
View ArticleSwap Writes per second (SWW/s)
Swap writes per second (SWW/s) is the rate at which you are swapping data out of memory and writing it to disks. This is a bad thing. This usually occurs when you overcommit memory, exceed shared...
View Articlehow to find a VM with MAC Adress ?
Hi all, today an admin asked me details about a machine. ip was know but I could not find it as vmtools were down. As I was wondering if it was really a VM, the admin gave me the MAC address. I...
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IVIM: Network Usage Rate limit too low
Hi,we have several VMs which report a critical error because the upper limit of "Net - This VM" is exceeded.13MB/s is not so much - about only 130 MBit/sec. In the virtualization settings I can only...
View Articleveeam backup and replication
we are using veeam to backup and replicate our virtual servers is there any way to monitor the veeam jobs to get alerts if they complete/fail?I call myself searching for the answer and i have not found...
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