ESXi 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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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 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 ArticleManually Registering a SolarWinds License
When using Virtualization Manager 6.2 and higher, you have a secondary license for use with an Orion server instance. If the Orion server does not have external internet access, the license will not be...
View ArticleUnable to process login error
Hi, We had an issue with our SAN which is now resolved but have been unable to login to Solarwinds Virtualisation Manager since. The login page displays but when we enter a username or password we get...
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...
View ArticleGuest storage space utilization - exclude a few drives
Good day all, Below is an email that I receive about disk storage. I like the alert as it is setup but I have a few drives that I have dedicated for pagefiles or are a few TB in size and I do not want...
View ArticleConfiguration Collection Crashing host
When running Configuration collection on Cisco UCS Hyper-V Host, the host crashes and reboots. Anyone seen issues like this? Performance Collection runs fine.
View ArticleReport for Peak IOPs per ESX & Datastore
Hi guys,I'd like to create a report that shows the peak I/O usage per ESX and per Datastore.I'd also like to have that report show the peak I/O usage for all ESX servers combined and all Datastores...
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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View ArticleHaprdware details not polling in ESX host
Hi, We have a ESX server in Vmware5.5 version. We are able to poll all the data including host servers except hardware details. In the hardware details we are getting the error as Hardware polling...
View ArticleCreate datastore alarm based on free space, not percentage
Hello, I am looking to alarm on a datastore when it reaches a certain free GB, say, 10 GB free. All of my datastores are different sizes, so percentage free doesn't really work.I found the...
View ArticleAWS question
If I want to tweak that AWS information EC2 costs - Where could I check the cost that is set up - my Manager wants to see what it would cost to move our prd environment to AWS
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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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Let the community know how impressed you are with Virtualization Manager and earn a $25 Amazon gift card! Simply post your review in Spread The Word with the questions answered below: What was...
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 ArticleDatastore queue depth, are you out there?
ESX datastore queue depthVirtualization engineers are curious lot, especially now that we've given them access to the pre-production VMAN environment. With all of the stats out there, of course they...
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...
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