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Grammar Matters
At the risk of exposing my own poor grammar skills, I believe that this sentence is grammatically incorrect. Shouldn't it read "The Data Sources monitored by Virtualizaton Manager and Orion seem to be...
View Articleaggregate storage i/o consumption
Hi Guys, Doing a capacity plan, and I'm a tad confused by the results of the above it.I cant figure out how it has defined its raw capacity for this field or where its getting its observed usage from...
View ArticleControlling Licenses with Virtualization Manager
Our company is considering getting Virtualization Manager and I am curious if I have the ability to control the licensing once I connect to a vCenter. We have a lot of different clusters within...
View ArticleLimited openings: Interested in taking a sneak peek at next generation...
Hi! The UX (User Experience) group is developing concepts for next generation V-Man that we'd love to show to you! If you use Virtualization Manager and have 1 hour to give us next week, the week of...
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vCenter versus Orion Cluster CPU?
Below are graphs of the Cluster CPU utilization for the same cluster for the past 7 days. One graph is from VMWare and the other is from Orion. Clearly these two are not at all the same, any ideas...
View ArticleEnvironment Map
Hi, I personally like the "Enviroment Map"-widget as it shows problematic VMs at a glance. 1. Is it possible to specify a scope for the map, e. g. through a filter? I want to build widgets which only...
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ESX Host CPU Monitoring Mistery...
Hi All, I have a little problem and hope some of you may be able to pint me to the right direction: I have a number of ESX hosts I am monitoring here. They are all set to ICMP and Pool for VMWare: With...
View ArticleVMAN Data Resolution
I am looking at using VMAN as a solution for one of our customers and I am curious what level of configuration it will give me over the data resolution. I would like to have real-time or near real-time...
View ArticleSW - VMM
Good day people, I was wondering if it were possible to have the alert output what has changed on the VM Description: VMs that have had their properties changed in the last 14 daysTime Executed: Thu,...
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?
View ArticleReduce database size
We are running Virtualization Manager v6.0.0.10001. My goal is to reduce the size of the database and the length of time that the data is retained. I have changed the "Days to Retain Performance Data...
View ArticleIs there any way to pool several Vman instances from one federated collector?
Hi folks, As mentioned, is there any ways to make several Vman appliances to be pooled from one federated collector. We are looking for the ability to have Vman appliance with actual data for each...
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
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 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...
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aggregate storage i/o consumption
Hi Guys, Doing a capacity plan, and I'm a tad confused by the results of the above it.I cant figure out how it has defined its raw capacity for this field or where its getting its observed usage from...
View ArticleVMAN integration after NPM migration
After migrating Orion to a new server i am unable to integrate Virtualization Manager I get the following error Error: Virtualization Manager server is unable to connect to the main Orion server using...
View ArticleVMWare DPM - How does VMan deal with this?
Hi All I have been asked the question by our virtualisation team "If we switch on DPM (Distributed Power Management) within VMWare how will Solarwinds Deal with it?" At present we have not purchased...
View ArticleSpace used by vmware.log files
Hello, I am new to Virtualization Manager, and really like it.Can you please tell me if there is a way to report on the space being consumed by the vmware.log files for each vm on the datastore, 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?
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