Grayed Out VMs
Hello, I am pretty new to monitoring hypervisors. Currently i have an implementation for VMWare when i click on a VCenter Host, and drill down to a Host within one of my clusters i see virtual machines...
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 ArticleVIM polling appears broken with SAM 6.2 and NPM 11.5
Been dealing with an ongoing issue where hardware health polling wasn't correct with some of my ESX hosts. Working with support and have been unable to determine why disk polling seems to be failing....
View ArticleQuestion
Hello VM users and product peeps - So we are doing a 30 day demo of the tool - and so far so good - I am trying to run a report for my director and not sure if it can do it or not - So we name our...
View ArticleVMWare DPM - How does VMan deal with this?
Hi All I have been asked the question by our virtualisation team "If we switch on DPM (Distributed Power Management) within VMWare how will Solarwinds Deal with it?" At present we have not purchased...
View ArticleWant to See All Current Alert Thresholds
I am trying to find/create a report that will display all of the currently configured alerts in SWVM and their associated thresholds and actions.
View ArticleUpgrade 6.1.0.10003 VMAN to 6.3
I would like to upgrade our VMAN to the latest build 6.3 ( in order to activate the new keys as well) below are the following components running on our Orion Server, can I upgrade? without any issues....
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 ArticleVMan Web Console will not load - Cannot get the required cache files
Hi All, I'm currently trialling Virtualisation Manager 6.3 on one of my air-gapped networks. When I try and access the web console on http://ipaddress, I just get a grey page with the Solarwinds logo...
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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vCenter Server not polling
I have just added a vCenter server to my solarwinds. Everything checks out but for some reason it shows the status and status details as being "unknown", but shows the polling status as ok. I have...
View ArticleVMAN on Orion - Now with Global Search
Hello VMAN customers, We on the Orion Global Search team have been hard at work adding module support to OGS. I'm happy to announce that a Beta of OGS with VMAN on Orion support will be available...
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 Article[SURVEY] Help us learn more about how you manage and monitor your virtual...
Do you know a thing or two about managing and monitoring a virtual environment? Then we have a few questions for you! Please click here to proceed to our survey, which shouldn't take more than 5...
View ArticleSprawl Question
The virtualization sprawl tab shows that I have several orphaned VMDKs. I select the delete datastore file and it givens me an error of "File Deletion failed Wrong Number of Arguments". Thoughts?
View ArticleSolarwinds 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 ArticleVIM polling appears broken with SAM 6.2 and NPM 11.5
Been dealing with an ongoing issue where hardware health polling wasn't correct with some of my ESX hosts. Working with support and have been unable to determine why disk polling seems to be failing....
View ArticleHigh Percent CPU Ready (%RDY)
CPU Ready (%RDY) is the percentage of time that a VM is ready to execute but has not been schedule for CPU time because it's waiting for a CPU to become available. This most often comes up when CPUs...
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 Articleveeam backup and replication
we are using veeam to backup and replicate our virtual servers is there any way to monitor the veeam jobs to get alerts if they complete/fail?I call myself searching for the answer and i have not found...
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