Monitor SCVMM Service
How do I setup an alert to monitor the SCVMM Service (not the Agent)?
View ArticleFinding Delted virtual machines/datastores
If i use time machine on a cluster that i know contained a deleted VM or datastore,i can find it and look at details. But I have not figured out how to do a map of a deleted vm and find the last place...
View ArticleAleting on DRS or HA Event
Is there a way to build an alert on DRS or SDRS failure or HA event with Virtualization manager? John
View ArticleIntegration IVIM
Hello, I want to integrateVMANwith the trialNPMserverand test it.And thende-integrating, andintegratingwith productive server.Canthere beany problemsafter that?
View ArticleTop-N Widgets Question
Hi All, We have a peculiar behavior on the dashboard of virtualization manager. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to the number of VMs displayed in "Top-N" widgets. For example, "Top-N: VM Network...
View ArticleAlerting Dashboard by VMWare Folder
caAnyone know of a quick and easy way to segment the alerts by VMWare folder, and then allow the user to drill into them that way? We have one cluster that has administrative duties assigned by...
View ArticleSample (Performance) Data Collection Intervals & Retention
So I was reading the VMan Admin guide the other day (everyone does that, right?) I stumbled across something that I thought was important enough to write a post about so that, when I go searching for...
View ArticleVMAN Data Resolution
I am looking at using VMAN as a solution for one of our customers and I am curious what level of configuration it will give me over the data resolution. I would like to have real-time or near real-time...
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 ArticleVirtualization Manager & Hyper-V
I am currently running a demo of VMAN in my VMWare environment and it works really well, provides great info and has great dashboards. With that being said, going forward our plan is to be moving more...
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 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 ArticleESXi Host does not appear in Virtualization Summary
I have added my vCenter server and 'supposedly' all of my VMware/ESXi hosts into inventory using Network Sonar Discovery. Everything was found perfectly, and when browsing Settings > Node &...
View ArticleHow can I tell if I have Solarwinds Virtualization Manager installed?
I was notified by our Vulnerability Management team yesterday that Solarwinds Virtualization Manager v6.3.1 and earlier has some vulnerability that we are concerned about. They have asked me to check...
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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 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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Alerting using SWIS variables - The Datastore Story
So I have built a couple of datastore alerts in the Orion alerting engine. I won't bore you with the technical details of the alert logic, etc. because it doesn't really matter. My issue is with...
View ArticleHardware Status = Critical, Overall Status = Warning?
Overall status for a VMware host shows 'warning', hovering over it declares that 'one or more child objects are in Warning state'.When the actual summary page for the server is inspected, the 'host' is...
View ArticleCharts in Orion (specific to Virtualization) show "No Data Available"
I'm working on cleanup of a solarwinds orion deployment for a customer and running into an issue where Charts specific to virtualization are showing "No Data Available". Charts like Top Datastore IOPs,...
View ArticleIntegration IVIM
Hello, I want to integrateVMANwith the trialNPMserverand test it.And thende-integrating, andintegratingwith productive server.Canthere beany problemsafter that?
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