Virtualization 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 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 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 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 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...
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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...
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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 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 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...
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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 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...
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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 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 ArticlePublishing widgets on Sharepoint
Hey everyone, I have VMAN 6.2 and am trying to publish some widgets on our sharepoint portal just so some business users can get a small view of some graphs in VMAN. When I add the webpart to...
View ArticleIOPS vs. Peak IOPS
I'm trying to understand the difference between IOPS and Peak IOPS in SWVM. My understanding of these metrics, which I believe to be faulty, is that the IOPS metric is an aggregate of the stats over...
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 ArticlePeople, do you know if I could monitoring VMI Unix apart from Virtual Manager?
People, do you know if I could monitoring VMI Unix apart from Virtual Manager without SNMP
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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 ArticleMulti-trend report widget blank
Multi-trend reports I created are no longer populated. The individual trends work fine when placed in a widget, but when used in a multi-trend widget they are blank. These had previously been working...
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