Monitoring VMware ESXi hardware
We have been using solarwinds virtualization manager for a and we are very happy with it! However.... We have recently noticed that it doesn't seem to detect/monitor hardware of the host. We recently...
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 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 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 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 ArticleCustom datastore report
To assist in the palcement of new virtual machines I'd like to run a report which lists the following information about each datastore.Number of VMs | Amount of allocated space | Amount of free spaceI...
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 ArticleDatastore IOPs daily
Hi Guysi want to work out what each datastore's iops are for the day and over maybe a week or month. Anyone any tips on how to build a query to do this and add the widget to the storage dashboardexcuse...
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 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...
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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 ArticleCapacity 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 Articleveeam backup and replication
we are using veeam to backup and replicate our virtual servers is there any way to monitor the veeam jobs to get alerts if they complete/fail?I call myself searching for the answer and i have not found...
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How can I create a widget with IOPS per LUN?
In order to see the VMs that are using the most IOPS on a datastore (and thereby creating latency for the other VMs), it would be nice to have a widget that shows the IOPS per LUN for a VM.Currently, I...
View ArticleCluster IOPs chart
Hi,I'm charting IOPs per cluster and have noticed that the figures for the cluster don't seem to match the figures for individual hosts or datastores Choosing a point in time as an example Cluster IOPS...
View ArticleReport for Peak IOPs per ESX & Datastore
Hi guys,I'd like to create a report that shows the peak I/O usage per ESX and per Datastore.I'd also like to have that report show the peak I/O usage for all ESX servers combined and all Datastores...
View ArticleEvent monitoring
Has anyone used Virtualization Manager to monitor events in vSphere? In particular, it would be great if it could flag up abnormal host events (temporary loss of datastore connectivity, for example),...
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...
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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 ArticleVirtualization Manager Release Candidate is now available
Hi The RC phase for the next version of Virtualization Manager is just beginning, so please join the fun. This build is a fully supported version of Virtualization Manager and you can upgrade your...
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