Eliminating VDI's from being monitored
We have a few VDI clusters that have hundreds of machines that we don't care to monitor in Virt Manager as they take up too many of our licenses.On a call with Solarwinds a few weeks back they claimed...
View ArticleVirtualization 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 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 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 ArticleHIGH CPU PEAKS
To monitor virtual machines I want to see the CPU average and peaks value of a virtual machine.For the peak CPU value I am using the query: vm.cpuloadSumpeak.month (%). However, many virutal machines...
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 ArticleSNMP for Virtual Appliance
Is it possible to configure SNMP RO/RW community strings on the Virtualization Manager virtual appliance? I would like to be able to monitor this VM's disk and CPU utilization via Orion.
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 ArticleIOPS vs. Peak IOPS
I'm trying to understand the difference between IOPS and Peak IOPS in SWVM. My understanding of these metrics, which I believe to be faulty, is that the IOPS metric is an aggregate of the stats over...
View ArticleVirtualization Manager and Active Directory Authentication
Good Morning All. I have been working on getting Virtualization Manager set up in our test cluster. Everything seems to be working well, collection schedules are running and the gathered data has been...
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Too many VMs using a datastore
What is the maximum number of VMs that should be using a single datastore? The answer varies depending on a lot of factors like the type of datastore and the IOPS (Input Output Per Second) of the VMs....
View ArticleHIGH CPU PEAKS
To monitor virtual machines I want to see the CPU average and peaks value of a virtual machine.For the peak CPU value I am using the query: vm.cpuloadSumpeak.month (%). However, many virutal machines...
View ArticleDatastore IOPs daily
Hi Guysi want to work out what each datastore's iops are for the day and over maybe a week or month. Anyone any tips on how to build a query to do this and add the widget to the storage dashboardexcuse...
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 ArticleEliminating VDI's from being monitored
We have a few VDI clusters that have hundreds of machines that we don't care to monitor in Virt Manager as they take up too many of our licenses.On a call with Solarwinds a few weeks back they claimed...
View Articledatastore ignore directory
Is there a way to get Virt Manager to ignore a directory within datastores? We are running NetApp filers with snapshots for our backend disk, which shows .snapshot folders within each datastore. I...
View ArticlevMotion count in the last 24h
Hello I would like build a query to setup and alert if there are more the 50 vMotions tasks in the last 24 hours. It works so fare, but how can I add the 24h restriction? cluster.vMotionCount:[50 TO...
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...
View ArticleAlerting in virtualization manager
Hi, This may be a silly question but i have just setup virtualization manager but cannot find where i manage alerts or where alerts should be sent to. Are alerts just sent to all users and is there...
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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