"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...
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Query Help - Finding Missing Data post-VMAN Integration
We're currently running VMAN 6.1.1 and we've integrated our instance with our NPM instance. Ta-da -- magic datastore data appears for hosts and VMs and -- oh, wait a minute? Why doesn't that host...
View ArticleVirtualization Manager 6.1 Release Candidate 3 Now Available in Your Customer...
VMAN 6.1 RC3 bits can be downloaded from your Customer Portal and installation instructions can be found in the attached PDF. Please read these instructions carefully before proceeding. Note that...
View ArticleVMan 6.1.1.130 - Hyper-V Discovery failure
I am working on an internal POC and as such have deployed the Trial version of the appliance in our Hyper-V environment. I have added the following 1. 2 x Hyper-V management hosts2. 2 x Hyper-V compute...
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Invalid certificate
Hi all- #1. I am hoping someone can help me resolve this certificate error. when clicking the dashboard tab under virtualization in Orion: I have installed the cert multiple times, both on my...
View ArticleMaster.log showing 'sending results to VIM failed: Connection refused' on...
VMAN integration with NPM/SAM can be a little tricky when you get multiple polling engines and multiple federated collectors in the mix. We've been struggling with data not showing up in the Orion...
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 Articlevmware licence tracking using Vman
Hello folks, is there any way to track hosts with expired vmware license using Virtualization Manager 6.X? Thanks,Dmytro.
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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VM Storage Consumed not coming over
For some reason the Storage for all of our VMs are blank. Only the snapshot size is coming through. We redeployed the virtualization manager appliance and still the problem is occurring on the new...
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 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 ArticleIs there a report that shows iops for each VM over seven days?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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VMAN Storage Growth - How to Control It?
The VMAN Admin Guide references a great tool to forecast the storage requirements for VMAN. The Solarwinds Virtualization Manager Storage Calculator does a great job of forecasting the growth of your...
View ArticleHow do you Troubleshoot your Virtual Environment? Show us and get 2,000...
I’m a User Experience (UX) researcher at SolarWinds and am looking to learn more about how you use Virtualization Manager and more specifically, what tools you use to troubleshoot your virtual...
View ArticleVMware Tag support in 6.2?
Hi,just one question for clarification: VMware tag support hasn't made it into 6.2, correct? I saw it it on the "what we are working on" list but not in the release notes of 6.2.Many thanks!Joern
View ArticleConfiguration Data collection failure
We are testing out Virtualization Manager 5.1 and most of it is working great, however, we're unable to get the Datastores for our VMware 4.1U1 environment to show up. I checked the logs on the...
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 ArticleMonitoring VMware View
Are there any plans to add VMware VIew (VDI) specific monitoring to this platform.Being able to monitor things like: - connection servers- pools- desktops- connection statistics Also be able to drill...
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...
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