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 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 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 &...
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Potential Virtualization Issues by Cluster
Greetings thwack faithful, I've been working with our management team to create "actionable" reports. That is, information that will cause them to do something rather than treat it as noise. I've got...
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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...
View ArticleTrying to find ESXi host installation date
Hi, everyone, I have a task to determine when our ESXi hosts were put into service, and so far I'm coming up empty. Does anyone know if VMAN has the information about when a given host was put into...
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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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ESX Invalid URL: the URl is empty
Hello,I am experience this error on of my hosts. I have other hosts that are working fine hanging off the same vcenter.I can get to the http://<hostip>/mob and log in just fine.I have tried...
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 ArticleAlert on DRS
Hi guys, new to VMAN - just looking to move what alerts we have in vSphere across to Solarwinds. Firstly, i am guessing there is no way to automatically import alerts created in vSphere into VMAN?...
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 ArticleVM vmotion travel map
Is there any way to build a report/graph etc that will show a VM and what ESX hosts it have traveled across during a certain time? We have a cluster and VMs are automatically moved around to balance...
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Delete database entries to fix trend graphs?
Hello,last week we had a glitch in our network and somehow SVM now has wrong data for that time.We use trend graphs for capacity management a lot but now some graphs have peaks like this:Is there an...
View ArticleExport to Sharepoint
We're trying to present certain dashboards or dashboard elements via Sharepoint, and we can briefly do it via the instructions in the manual. The export only works once, however, during the session...
View ArticleUnable to access the VMAN console
Hello, Just trying my luck if someone could also experienced my issue in VMAN console. I upgraded my VMAN to the latest version but unfortunately, when I was trying to access the VMAN console in order...
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 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 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 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 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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