How to switch from Thin Provisioning to Full Provisioning in VMan?
I just upgrade from v6.1.x to the latest v6.2.x. The console is now showing "Datastore Overallocation" which it's variables are tied to storage being Thin Provisioned. Our HP StoreVirtual (aka...
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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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 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 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.
View ArticleReports for Missing Data in NPM
After we ran the integration wizard we noticed that a few hosts did not have datastore information in spite of having both the storage and virtualization tabs to indicate that we had run the wizard....
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 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 ArticleChange Date format in console
Hi Guys,, How do you change the date format displayed thoughout in the web console?Right now, by default, it displays Fri 11/30/12I would like it to display Fri 30/11/12 What needs to be changed?...
View ArticleDelete a Collector from Virtualisation manager
I have had issues with a collector in Virtualisation Manager and have had to re add it with a different name. How do I delete the original one from the system as it is showing as offline as it no...
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 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...
View ArticleVIM_ResourcePools - what do columns represent?
We have SAM, Virtualization Manager and VMWare/vSphere/vCenter installed. I'm trying to develop a report of Resource Pool utilization using the VIM_ResourcePools table. I'm having trouble figuring out...
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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 ArticleHost Partition Storage Free Space Alert Problem
We have Virtualization Manager running in our environment and i'm having a strange issue with it. One of the alerts that comes up is in regard to Host partition storage free space. It states that if...
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 ArticleHost level CPU Ready
I would like to know if there is a way to get a host level CPU ready charts. I see how to get guest level, but not by host... Maybe I'm not looking in the right spot?
View ArticleHow to switch from Thin Provisioning to Full Provisioning in VMan?
I just upgrade from v6.1.x to the latest v6.2.x. The console is now showing "Datastore Overallocation" which it's variables are tied to storage being Thin Provisioned. Our HP StoreVirtual (aka...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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 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...
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