Adding large number of VMs
If I have 200 VMs on an ESX host, do I have to click on each VM and select "Manage Node" to get it monitored in Solarwinds? Is there a way to do this for all VMs on a host without going through every...
View ArticleVirtual Machine filtering
We have a significant number of VMs which we want to collect statistics for (Development Environment) but do not necessarily want to alert for and I'm struggling to find a way to filter these out of...
View ArticleLocal Orion SAM users can't see virtual machines
We have a licensed SAM installation and a trial Virtualization Manager license. I've configured Virtualization Manager to poll my vCenters, and polling is working properly. I've enabled integration...
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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 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 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 ArticleHyper-V VM Real-time Memory Calculations Correct or Not? - No Graphing
In VMAN v6.3 (& v6.2), VMAN's equation for collecting current memory usage within the VM is (Assigned Memory / Maximum Memory = Current Utilization). I feel this is incorrect and should be...
View ArticleNew VMs and Snapshots this week
Hi - i'm struggling (again!) with a report. Been asked for a report to show new virtual machines create in the last month. i thought this would be quite easy, create a custom table, then all virtual...
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 ArticleStill hunting phantom snapshots
I have a feeling that I have significant opportunity to hunt down and eliminate many phantom snapshots. Unfortunately, the Orphaned VMs report is broken in version 6.1 and later, but the Alert for 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 ArticleRoot password on VMAN 4.3
I setup VMAN 4.3 and changed the admin password for logging into the appliance. Since making the change I can not able to SSH to the appliance with what we changed the admin password to. We need to...
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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Invalid certificate
Hi all- #1. I am hoping someone can help me resolve this certificate error. when clicking the dashboard tab under virtualization in Orion: I have installed the cert multiple times, both on my...
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 ArticleMonitor SCVMM Service
How do I setup an alert to monitor the SCVMM Service (not the Agent)?
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Ghost nodes in Virtualization assets
Hi Everyone, I'm having trouble getting our Virtualization assets listed correctly in Orion so hoping someone can help. We have a Hyper-V cluster named BEDHVDEV with fives nodes, BEDHV01 thru...
View ArticleStill hunting phantom snapshots
I have a feeling that I have significant opportunity to hunt down and eliminate many phantom snapshots. Unfortunately, the Orphaned VMs report is broken in version 6.1 and later, but the Alert for VM...
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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 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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