Current 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 ArticleIs there a report that shows iops for each VM over seven days?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
View ArticleVirtualization Manager and VMware Site Recovery Manager
In my VMware environment we use SRM (VMware Site Recovery Manager) across both our data centres to protect our 500+ VMs for business continuity and disaster recovery. My problem is that Virtualization...
View ArticleVMAN integration after NPM migration
After migrating Orion to a new server i am unable to integrate Virtualization Manager I get the following error Error: Virtualization Manager server is unable to connect to the main Orion server using...
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VCenter 5.5.0 Polling Issues
Hi everyone,We have been encountering polling issues with VCenter 5.5.0. For the record, my installation consists of Orion Platform 2014.2.1, SAM 6.1.1, QoE 1.0, IPAM 4.3, NPM 11.0.1, NTA 4.1.0, WPM...
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 ArticleDatastore I/O latency reporting as years
Hi All, Wonder if someone could help. We are having an issue with Virtualization Manager and the Top-N: Datastore I/O Latency Latest widget on the Dashboard. Whilst the Read and Write latency seem to...
View ArticleVMWare Polling for guests
I am polling an ESX host using SNMP. In order to manage guest hosts it's asking for a separate SNMP credential even though I click the 'Poll for VMWare' option.Is it possible to manage guest hosts via...
View ArticleIPAM 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...
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 ArticleVIM polling appears broken with SAM 6.2 and NPM 11.5
Been dealing with an ongoing issue where hardware health polling wasn't correct with some of my ESX hosts. Working with support and have been unable to determine why disk polling seems to be failing....
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VCenter 5.5.0 Polling Issues
Hi everyone,We have been encountering polling issues with VCenter 5.5.0. For the record, my installation consists of Orion Platform 2014.2.1, SAM 6.1.1, QoE 1.0, IPAM 4.3, NPM 11.0.1, NTA 4.1.0, WPM...
View ArticleQuery the Date/Time a Custom Attribute was last updated
Has anyone tried to query the last time a VMware custom attribute was updated? We use Netbackup which populates the custom attribute NB_LAST_BACKUP with the last time the vm was successfully backed...
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 ArticlePlanning Virtualization Manager Upgrade
I'm planning upgrading our Virtualization Manager appliance and was wondering if I can upgrade to 6.2 from 6.0.0 or if I need to upgrade to 6.1/6.1.1 before going to 6.2.
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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 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 ArticleIs there a report that shows iops for each VM over seven days?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
View ArticleCloud Cost EC2 Algorithm
Hi All. I work in the UK public sector. UK government has a 'Digital by Default' policy that mandates that cloud infrastructure is used by default, unless there is a very good reason why not to use...
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...
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