Virtualization Manager RC is now available to all customers
Hi If you are a Virtualization Manager customer with maintenance, you can upgrade to the latest Virtualization Manager (5.1.1). If you would like to try it out, please login to the customer portal and...
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...
View ArticleSign Up for the Virtualization Manager 6.0 Release Candidate
The Virtualization Manager 6.0 RC is coming up shortly, please sign up here. Some of the great features you will be able to try: Integration with Orion More Hyper-V storage and cluster data...
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How to embed vMan in Orion WEB UI?
Hi guys, When adding http://swvm/ to the list of external sites in Orion and browse to the menu i get this: I tried opening it in another browser. Cleared all cache data and tried again on different...
View ArticleIVIM 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...
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Virtualization Manager and VDI Licensing
Hi all - We are considering the Virtualisation Manager product to complement our exiting Solarwinds NCM/NPM install. I understand that the VM product is licensed on the number of powered on VMs,...
View ArticleDashboard url
It's a nice feature that every widget in vman has its own url, which can be copied on Orion, Sharepoint and etc.Is there is a way to specify/export an url on whole dashboard?For example, I want to give...
View Articlequerying past alerts
If I pull up an alert, I can see that the Past Activity is available, too. Is there a way I can query the past activity on my own? For instance, if an alert was raised 4 times in one week, 8 times...
View ArticleReduce Data Retention
Has anyone found a way to reduce the length of time that Virtualization Manager keeps data? It's currently eating ~100gb/week for me, which is a little ridiculous, in my opinion.
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Recently Integrated Virtualization Manager into SAM/NPM and having some issues.
After getting the versions of everything necessary to do the integration, I bring up the new Virtualization tabs and in the Environment widget when I click on a node with issues, it comes up with a...
View ArticleCustom Dashboard
I am looking to make a custom dashboard with all the same content as the Administrator Dashboard but for only a small subset of servers. Is this possible and how would I go about doing it?
View ArticleOnly Monitor Certain Clusters
Hi, Is it possible to only monitor certain clusters in vCenter 5.1? I have a lab environment that I don't need monitoring and have exceeded my license count because of it. Any help is...
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 ArticleSkip certain volume label or drive letter in the Guest Storage Space...
Dear,I would like to ignore the S:\ drive letter (label SWAP) from this report.Since the pagefile is stored on that drive and the disks have been created with only a few extra 100 mb's, all my VM's are...
View ArticleHow to list VMware snapshots and space used by a VM
I am new to Virtualization Manager and trying to get used to the navigation as things aren't very intuitive for me in this product. I have found multiple places where an alert or trend will show that...
View ArticleReduce database size
We are running Virtualization Manager v6.0.0.10001. My goal is to reduce the size of the database and the length of time that the data is retained. I have changed the "Days to Retain Performance Data...
View ArticleRoot password
Hi,What is the root password for the appliance? I have had a power failure on the machine running the virtual instance of Solarwinds Virtualization Manager, which means i need to run fsck before it can...
View ArticleRemoving Custom Dashboards
Been playing around with this great new tool and have found myself needing to do some cleanup. I am looking to remove several dashboards that we are no longer wanting. Been playing with it and not able...
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 ArticleHow do I get latency stats for my NFS datastores?
running 6.0.1. we use almost exclusively NFS. I'm not getting much useful data for the datastore latency and IOPS widgets. Suggestions? thank you
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