Trouble freeing up VM licenses
We've added a lot of VMs lately and exceeded our 400 license limit. I removed some standalone ESXi hosts to get the number of VMs down. I ran "Recalc Licenses" several times and even rebooted the...
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 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...
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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...
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What does HB say?
I see the keyword "HB" in the upper left corner of VMan screen.Can anyone explain for me what the keyword says? Is it "Host Busy" or "Heart Beat" ? Also my colleagues have experienced difficulties...
View ArticleAdd Virtualization Manager as an additonal tab to NPM
I believe I saw this a while back, but cannot seem to find it. Looking for a little help. Thanks.
View ArticleSolarWinds License Management: Failed to get managed item count for this...
Hello Everybody, I am new to SolarWinds Virtualization Manager and this is the first time I am trying to set it up. If I run the configuration Wizard under Setup, I can go fine up to "Collection...
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 ArticleCan't find first time login in Virtualization Manager trial
Installed Virtualization Management Appliance everything going fine on ESXi 4.1Setup manual IP, tried to login from console and/or web page but cant with ESXi root user, even admin or...
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...
View ArticleAttribute for VM hardware version
I'm trying to get a listing of our VMs that are still on VM hardware version 4 and I can't figure out which attribute this is. I'm probably overlooking it but help would be appreciated.
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 ArticleFeature Request - Top N widget
Were using the "Top-N" widget a lot in our dashboards, and I'd like to: Be able to select the x-axis scaling (day, week, month etc). We can do this with a performance chart but that only shows a single...
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 ArticleHigh Peaks in CPU
To monitor virtual machines a want to see the average and peaks of a virtual machine. For the peak CPU value I am using the query vm.cpuloadSumpeak.month (%).However, many virtual machines have a peak...
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 ArticleHow can I change the default SolarWinds logo?
Hi to all, How can I change the default SolarWinds logo on Virtualization Manager v5.0 RC? We already change the default logo on NPM and Storage Manager.
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VM disk latency - alert
I configured this alert to get alert e-mails after 30 ms latency encountered. But VMAN sends me an alert when under 30 ms latency encountered. Search Query : vm.powerstate:poweredOn AND...
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...
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