Planning 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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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleVirtualization manager and Integration with Orion
Hi, I have Virtualization manager running as an appliance, we also have NPM and other products, is their a way to integrate with Orion? Thanks Mike
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 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 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 ArticleConfiguring 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...
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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 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...
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 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...
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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...
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High Percent Co-Stop (%CSTP)
Co-Stop (%CSTP) is the percentage of time that a SMP virtual machine was ready to run, but incurred delay due to co-vCPU scheduling contention. To remedy Co-Stop on a VM, decrease the number of vCPUs...
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