cannot configure VMware hosts
I don't seem to be able to get Virtualization Manager to login to my vmware hosts. I've got VCenter validated successfully. For the vmware hosts, I'm using the same account I use for Orion, and I have...
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 ArticleVirtualization Manager screen on Solarwinds web page
I have the Virtualzation Manager alerts window displayed on my Solarwinds summary page. It has scroll bars on the side and bottom. Is there anyway to get rid of these?
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High Percent Co-Stop (%CSTP)
Co-Stop (%CSTP) is the percentage of time that a SMP virtual machine was ready to run, but incurred delay due to co-vCPU scheduling contention. To remedy Co-Stop on a VM, decrease the number of vCPUs...
View ArticleVMware DPM ESX Status Help
Anyone use VMware's DPM (Distributed Power Management)? I am curious how you handle the monitoring and prevent your host from turning red when it is simply just sleeping. I can modify the alerts to...
View ArticleVMAN CPU Ready Widget
I questioned the VMAN dev team about the CPU Ready numbers. The value displayed in VMAN is much lower than the calculated value out of the ESX console. Their response is that they calculate ready by...
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MS April "Convenience Update" breaking VMXNet3 vNICs
Just got this from our VMware guy. I thought I should pass it along. Mods, if this should be someplace else let me know.------------------------------------------------------- If you have VMXNet3...
View ArticlevCenter Version?
We're working on some virtualization goodies in Orion. If you're using vCenter, what version are you running? Thanks!Craig
View ArticleUser vs. Admin - Dashboard Access
I'm a little confused. I have configured Active Directory authentication for my users and have enabled the automatic creation of user-level accounts. No problem. Users log in and should only have...
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 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 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...
View ArticleErrors in their VIM.CollectorJobs_[xxxx].log: 'VMware Job Polling node XXX -...
So it seems that we have found yet another limitation of VIM as well as vCenter.During an ongoing migration of our vCenter servers from 5x to 6x, we have observed instances where SolarWinds Virtual...
View ArticleVIM Max Iops vs VMAN Peak Iops
I'm trying to run some reports to see what datastores have been exceeding a few different thresholds. When I pull datastore statistics in orion, maxiops never seems to get too high. However...
View Articlevmware VM replication.
Hi all We use Vmware SRM and VM replication.I would like to create a dashboard, alerts... with Virtualization Manager based on the "property" VM replicated or not. I did not find any field I could use...
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VMs not showing as "Orion managed"
I have a slew of VMs that for some reason are showing up as not being managed by Orion when they really are. For instance, here's the details page for a VM in our environment: We're running Hyper-V on...
View ArticleVirtualization Manager and Phantom ESX Hosts
Hello, I have been having an issue with Orion Virtualization Manager where it keeps adding hosts that already exist or are being duplicated. There seems to be some corruption, and I cannot figure out...
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High Percent Co-Stop (%CSTP)
Co-Stop (%CSTP) is the percentage of time that a SMP virtual machine was ready to run, but incurred delay due to co-vCPU scheduling contention. To remedy Co-Stop on a VM, decrease the number of vCPUs...
View ArticleHousekeeping the Hyper9 Database
Hi Guys, I would like to know how I can housekeeping or cleaning the Hyper9 database. My database is already growing up to 42Gb already. Is there any other way to compress or maintenance we can do it...
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?
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