How 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 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 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 ArticleSWQL Query tool
Can i attach the SWQL Query tool to Virtualization Manager? If not, what is the process to get attached to the database for queries?
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Incorrect Memory usage on Virtual Machines using Vman 5.1.1.1
Hi All New to this forum and this product. I have been trying to get this setup and things have been going well until I found that the Vman memory reports on virtual machines seem to give me different...
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 Articleinventory of guest operating systems
I wanted to create a report/graph that shows the Guest Operating System and be able to filter it down to Cluster and display the Guest VM's Name. I was able to produce a graph with a breakdown of the...
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...
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 ArticleMonitoring VMware View
Are there any plans to add VMware VIew (VDI) specific monitoring to this platform.Being able to monitor things like: - connection servers- pools- desktops- connection statistics Also be able to drill...
View ArticleVirtualization Manager OnDemand Report Chargeback
Dear all, Please help to enable work OnDemand chargeback report. In our chargeback report is creating empty excel file.Empty excel file attachedHow fix Chargeback report in this situation. Thanks
View ArticleCan the web console redirect HTTP to HTTPS?
Hello Thwack community,Just got VMAN v. 5.1.1.10000 (virtual appliance) up and running, and was wondering how I can make the web console redirect HTTP users to HTTPS.Obviously I don't want users...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Latency Top-N:VM Latency Hour
Hi Everyone, I am new to the forum and also to the Virtualization Manager product so I was wondering if you could offer some advice please. One of the things I am using the product for is to try and...
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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 6.1.1.130 - Hyper-V Discovery failure
I am working on an internal POC and as such have deployed the Trial version of the appliance in our Hyper-V environment. I have added the following 1. 2 x Hyper-V management hosts2. 2 x Hyper-V compute...
View ArticleUnderstanding Chargeback reports
Working with VMAN and I am wondering what the charge back report is telling me. Server 1 is costing me $8829.11 is this the cost to procure the resources this server needs? vmNameAverage CPU Units...
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Widget != Trend
Hi,we have separate dashboards for each cluster. One widget on the dashboard should show the distribution of guest families in each cluster.The following picture shows the output of the trend I've...
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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VCenter 5.5.0 Polling Issues
Hi everyone,We have been encountering polling issues with VCenter 5.5.0. For the record, my installation consists of Orion Platform 2014.2.1, SAM 6.1.1, QoE 1.0, IPAM 4.3, NPM 11.0.1, NTA 4.1.0, WPM...
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...
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