You should be able to use search (which backs most of the widgets) to remove local datastores. For example, in the query builder, there is a property that will tell you if a datastore is local or not. Let me know what widget you are trying to create.
This is the widget:
I would like to remove the local datastores if I can.
*edit* not sure why it doesn't get shown when I post?
Thanks.
The title is "Datastore Low Free Space" I might have renamed it but it was the original Widget I believe. I really only care about the SAN volumes and would love to exlude the local volumes.
Thanks.
The first step is to identify the search to find all of your non local datastores. Once we have this, we can use this as the search to use for the widget in question.
Can you try this datastore search? Let me know if the search is correctly identifying all of your non local datastores.
datastore.local:"false"
I'm trying to do something similar. The datastore.local:"false" argument does not work, so I tried to use name exclusion, which also fails. I think I had it working in 4.0.x, but I can't figure out the right query in 4.1.
The method I found was to name each datastore something like 'hostname'-local and then use the query "-datastore.name:local".
The logic to detect local datastores has been improved in the latest service release Service Release 4.1.2 is Now Available
I would welcome feedback on whether the datastore.local attribute is now correctly identifying your local datastores.
Jon
Hi, Jon,
It appears that the the datastore.local:true argument does work in the most recent version.
Thanks!
Tom
