IVIM versus Virtualization Manager
Hey all, I was wondering if there was anyone out there who was running IVIM (the virtualization tab in NPM) side-by-side w/ Virtualization Manager. Are there any major benefits to this approach? We're...
View ArticleVMan drive full... how to manage database
The Vman appliance has a 200GB 2nd hard drive. Today my drive filled and collection stopped. The solution from Solarwinds is to increase the drive size and reboot the appliance. I would love to say...
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 ArticleExclude objects from Alerts using Labels
Hi, i want to exclude certain objects from Alerts in an easy way using Labels (i guess that is the most easy way). Let's say i want to exclude some VMs from the "Guest storage space utilization"...
View ArticleStill hunting phantom snapshots
I have a feeling that I have significant opportunity to hunt down and eliminate many phantom snapshots. Unfortunately, the Orphaned VMs report is broken in version 6.1 and later, but the Alert for VM...
View ArticleHow do i get the Virtualization Manager Dashboard in Orion to open using HTTP...
Currently when I got the VMan Dashboard in Orion, it fails to load. It first mentions an SSL issue but when i look into the actual page source I see it is trying to load the Vman instance using HTTPS...
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 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 ArticlevCenter Server Appliance support?
Hi, just wondering if VMM has been tested and supported against VCSA v5.5? A lot of customers are considering it a viable options with the recent updates...
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 ArticleNot all nodes showing as managed in Orion
I have just recently setup and deployed my Virtualization Manager and for the most part it works wonderfully. I am having an issue with nodes not being able to be managed from the Orion web console....
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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How to delete Horizontal data export in VMAN 6.3
Dear Folks Every time a export any report or data from VMAN it pulls up excel with 2 sheets in it with same data.1: Data Horizontally and 2: same data vertically. Can we restrict this to only show...
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Error with Orion intergration
Hello all. I have been upgrading our vmware environment to vsphere 6.0 - i have also done a complete vcentre move - to a new vcentre server. Initally, it seemed that all was OK (in orion web interface)...
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Custom HTML Resource not displaying
We have setup on our SAM page a Custom HTML resource to monitor various things from our VMWare environment using Solarwinds Virtualization Manager. However we have a weird issue where as soon as the...
View ArticleHow to monitor vCenter events in VMan?
Hi folks, As per title. Is there any way we can pull in all the vCenter/VMware in general events?It would be nice to get these in either Orion or VMan.
View ArticleEmail Notifications
I am trying to set up email notifications for certain things such as High CPU usage, memory usage, etc. I can't seem to get the email to send when this happens, where do I set this up to make this work?
View Articleexcluding a Virtual machine from monitoring on a SWQL Alert
i am using one of the canned VM alerts. "VMs with Old Snapshots" and i would like to exclude one VM Guest from the monitoring of this alert. here is what i have now.SELECT VirtualMachines.Uri,...
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 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...
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