Solarwinds Vitualization Manager - Versioning
Does Solarwinds list the versioning on the website? I see 6.2, 6.3, etc. Looking for more specific versioning. The reason I ask, is I cannot get 6.3 Hotfix 1 to install and I'm trying to find out 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...
View ArticleVMWare Data Sources not being displayed
Product Name: Virtualization Manager v6.0.1.10000Licensed Sockets: 64Host Sockets: 4Expiration Date: 2015 My Virtualization Manager is only show data collected from my Hyper-V hosts, not my VMWare data...
View ArticleAggregate group of VM stats
Hello, I wanted to get some feedback on VMAN 6.1.1.130 and how I can aggregate the stats for a list of VMs that represent an application. Looking through the admin guide, there is supposed to be a "add...
View ArticleESXi 5.5.1 host suddenly missing from vCenter cluster with IVIM
One of ten ESXi hosts running 5.5.0 dropped off the list of hosts for its cluster as displayed in Orion/NPM 11.5.2 (IVIM 2.1.0). It is polled fine by VMAN 6.3 with its data visible in that console. It...
View ArticleUnlicensed Sockets - How to find them?
I have a big environment. Really big. We had originally spec'd out our environment a few months ago and purchased the appropriate licensing. Lo and behold, by the time we got VMAN rolled out people...
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...
View ArticleHello, need help with reseting the Virtualization Manager password
Good day all, does any one know how to reset the Virtualization Manager password for version 6.0. I would be grateful for any assistance.
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 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...
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Can't figure out what's causing this alert!
So we have recently intergrated VMAN. Having some issues working out what the alerts on certain VMs are, and where they are coming from. The above is a good example. So this widget is on our home...
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...
View ArticleCluster vmotion activities report
We use solarwinds Virtualization Manager v6.0.0.10001. I have 5 cluster and host is vmware ESXI 5.1We use DRS and HA in each cluster. How many VMs machine moved in a day? How do I learn?
View ArticleUSB GSM Modem on VMWare
Hey all, We recently purchased APM and NPM, they are running on a VMWare server and we're looking at integrating SMS text alerts to our oncall engineers, we have purchased a GSM modem and we have...
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?
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vCenter versus Orion Cluster CPU?
Below are graphs of the Cluster CPU utilization for the same cluster for the past 7 days. One graph is from VMWare and the other is from Orion. Clearly these two are not at all the same, any ideas...
View ArticleCloud Cost EC2 Algorithm
Hi All. I work in the UK public sector. UK government has a 'Digital by Default' policy that mandates that cloud infrastructure is used by default, unless there is a very good reason why not to use...
View ArticleUninstalling Virtualization Manager
My company has decided on not renewing the Virtualization Manager due to the new VMWare monitoring capabilities. We are wanting to know if anyone knows if it is OK to just delete the .ovf form VMWare,...
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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