Root 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 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 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 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 ArticleMonitoring VMWare with Hyper V Virtualization Manager?
Hi,Hope someone can answer my easy question?We have recently purchased Visualization Manager and I have come to download the module, we also have SAM and NPM.My question is, Am I able to set up VM...
View ArticleHow do you delete an Alert in Virtualization Manager?
I can't seem to find this anywhere.
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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Announcing GA of Virtualization Manager Service Release 6.1.1
VMAN is now generally available in the Customer Portal for all customers on Active Maintenance. Several important issues were addressed in this Service Release including: Significant security updates...
View ArticleSample (Performance) Data Collection Intervals & Retention
So I was reading the VMan Admin guide the other day (everyone does that, right?) I stumbled across something that I thought was important enough to write a post about so that, when I go searching for...
View ArticleHow to list VMware snapshots and space used by a VM
I am new to Virtualization Manager and trying to get used to the navigation as things aren't very intuitive for me in this product. I have found multiple places where an alert or trend will show that...
View ArticleWhen creating a performance widget can it be set to show "Month" by default...
When creating a performance widget can it be set to show "Month" by default instead of "Day"
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Can you remove the storage tab from the node details view for physical servers?
So we have recently deployed Solarwinds Orion and I have managed to manipulate most of the customization we would like. What I have noticed is on the node details page, the storage tab seems to be tied...
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How to embed vMan in Orion WEB UI?
Hi guys, When adding http://swvm/ to the list of external sites in Orion and browse to the menu i get this: I tried opening it in another browser. Cleared all cache data and tried again on different...
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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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 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...
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ESX Host CPU Polling stopped after deleting a SAM Application assigned to the...
I hope someone can help me understand if this is a bug or not. Yesterday I added 2 SAM Application monitors for our VMWARE vCenter server. Then, I deleted one of them. [The monitor was a WMI service...
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 ArticleVirtualization Manager and VMware Site Recovery Manager
In my VMware environment we use SRM (VMware Site Recovery Manager) across both our data centres to protect our 500+ VMs for business continuity and disaster recovery. My problem is that Virtualization...
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Error when deploying Virtualization Manager 6.1.1.130 OVA on vSphere
We recently tried to deploy Virtualization-Manager-vSphere-6.1.1.130.ova on vSphere 5.1 (host running ESXi v5.0) and when we boot up the virtual machine we get an error after a file system check. Has...
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