Capacity Management - N-1 - Calculations
Hi, What does VEO base it's available capacity on? The average load on a cluster?For N-1 does it average out the hosts and subtract one off of it?What is a small VM vs an average VM vs a large VM?...
View ArticleData collection fails for some vCenter Servers after upgrading to...
A new KB article was posted today to the address issue where Virtualization Manager 6.1.1 fails to connect to vCenter after being upgraded from version 4.0 or below. The issue is caused by the RSA key...
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 ArticleCurrent KPIs and long-term capacity are equally important metrics
When people hear the term “key performance indicators”, they often think of management metrics. But, if you’re here, you also know – or at least suspect – that there are a variety of key performance...
View ArticleVMAN integration after NPM migration
After migrating Orion to a new server i am unable to integrate Virtualization Manager I get the following error Error: Virtualization Manager server is unable to connect to the main Orion server using...
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VMan and Custom Attributes / Annotations from vCentre for Hosts
At present we are still embedded in vMan usage and attempting to do alerting from the Orion core as we progress with our alerting.One thing that has popped up is the inherited use of some attributes...
View ArticlePossible to give VMan 6.3 more than 4 CPUs?
New to SolarWinds virtualization manager, our environment has been up less than 2 weeks. Running VMan 6.3 with hotfix 1. I see the CPU pegged at 99% on the Configuration Summary page during data...
View ArticleMonitoring RAID Status for ESXi Servers
Hi! Is VMan capable of monitoring the RAID Array status of ESXi servers? I specifically mean the direct-attached disks that are RAID-configured on a VMWare server. Can't find anything in the VMan...
View ArticleMS 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 ArticleSWQL query on VMware VM tags , Vreplication
Hi all I need to make on report on VM tags and vreplication value. in which tables may I find the TAGS and the datas about replications ? thanks a lot Gildas
View Articlevsphere 6 plugin
Sorry for my ignorance. We just upgraded from ESXi 5.1 to 6.0 and vsphere 5.1 windows to VCSA 6.0 u1. Can someone remind me how do install the Solarwinds Plugin into the environment?
View ArticleVirtualization manager and Integration with Orion
Hi, I have Virtualization manager running as an appliance, we also have NPM and other products, is their a way to integrate with Orion? Thanks Mike
View ArticleChange Orion main poller IP in VMAN
I have VMAN integrated into my Orion install and I noticed something today. My Orion server has two NICs in it, one of which is a private NIC that connects to my Orion DB virtual machine. The other NIC...
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 6.4 - Beta 1 Now Available
I am proud to announce that Virtualization Manager(VMAN) 6.4 Beta 1 is now available!!!! The team has been working hard at producing the next release for VMAN with some exciting new features. The...
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 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 ArticleHost Partition Storage Free Space Alert Problem
We have Virtualization Manager running in our environment and i'm having a strange issue with it. One of the alerts that comes up is in regard to Host partition storage free space. It states that if...
View ArticleHow To Add Hyper-V Host and VM's
Hello,I am not the Hyper-V guy in our office. I am a network guy trying to add a Hyper-V host into Orion so we can see all the hosted VM's.The Hyper-V guy turned on SNMP and I was able to add the host...
View ArticleUnlicensed Sockets - How to find them?
I have a big environment. Really big. We had originally spec'd out our environment a few months ago and purchased the appropriate licensing. Lo and behold, by the time we got VMAN rolled out people...
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