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 Article% utilization on specific ESX vmnic
Hi guys,How can i tell what one of our dedicated vmnic's, used for vmotion, is reaching in terms of utilization?Input greatly appreciated.Thanks!
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 ArticleChange Date format in console
Hi Guys,, How do you change the date format displayed thoughout in the web console?Right now, by default, it displays Fri 11/30/12I would like it to display Fri 30/11/12 What needs to be changed?...
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 ArticleConfiguration Data collection failure
We are testing out Virtualization Manager 5.1 and most of it is working great, however, we're unable to get the Datastores for our VMware 4.1U1 environment to show up. I checked the logs on the...
View ArticleExport to Sharepoint
We're trying to present certain dashboards or dashboard elements via Sharepoint, and we can briefly do it via the instructions in the manual. The export only works once, however, during the session...
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 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 to update VMware tools
Hi guys, When attempting to update tools i get an error telling me that i need to uninstall existing tools.There is no documentation on where these files are and what to execute in order to uninstall...
View ArticleLooking for the most recent content?
If you are looking for the most recent content in the Virtualization Manager forum, please use the following link: All Discussions in Order of Creation Date.As more recent content is created within the...
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 ArticleWhat is the query language used?
Hello, What is the query language used? I'd like to know so I can learn how to create better queries. I'm a newbie to query language. I looked at the admin guide and the query section isn't very...
View ArticleHow do I find disk space free/used (GB) on a specific VM?
I noticed today that one of my VMs has triggered the "VM disk near full" alert, so I added it to the list and then drilled into it. The only disk space metric, though, that I can find is the static...
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can not add data source vcenter5 from solarwinds virtual manager 5 trail
hi all i have problem with adding vcenter 5 to solarwinds vm 5. now i can add 2 vcenter version 4.1 to my solarwinds vm5 - user credential domain user ( port tcp 443 ) when i add one more vcenter 5.0...
View Articlecreating virtualization manager alert
hi guys,need help to create a new alert...im not familiar with those query strings...is there any refferrence for this? orion/NPM alert is way more friendly and straight forward even for...
View ArticleHost Hardware Status Alerts
We are currently testing out virtualization manager and there are a few things i was wondering about with regards to host level hardware status warnings and alerts. Currently all hosts are sending...
View ArticleChange alerting for specific VM's
Hi All,Can someone advise where I can find documentation or give some step-by-step instructions on how you would effectively 'ok' some alerts so they stop being raised on certain VM's?For example we...
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 ArticleHow to Exclude entries from "vm.heartbeat.latest:0" results
Hi All, I am looking to turn off alerting for a number of our Linux VM's that do not have VMTools installed. As a result, we are receiving a large number of alerts to remind us that these VM's do not...
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