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There don't seem to be videos on adding ESXi hosts to Solarwinds for monitoring. Also are there any recommendations as to what to monitor for ESXi 6.5? Any KB articles on grouping ESXi hosts and creating alerts?
I'd like to start gather together a list of features which are missing from the Orion VMAN replacement for the VMAN Appliance. 1. Inability to search for datastores There are really basic features which are missing. I cannot figure out how to search for a datastore and displays its metrics, where you could just type the…
When adding a node, how would I know that the VMAN Orion poller is being used? What I see when adding a node under the define node section: polling hostname or IP address, polling method (external node, status only, most devices, windows and hyper-v servers, windows and linux servers) and under additional monitoring…
Virtualization Manager (VMAN) 8.3 is now available, on the Customer Portal! The release notes are a great place to get an overview of the release at a glance including deprecation notices and bug fixes. New Features in VMAN 8.3 * Troubleshooting VMware vSAN software-defined storage is now easier than ever before, with…
Hi, We are using VMAN 8.2 integrated into Orion with a couple other products. I created an alert that triggers when there are more than two snapshots on a VM due to an issue this creates. Regardless of when the snapshots occur the alert seems to come out at around 8PM at night. This is not helpful. It seems that VMAN only…
Hi All, Looking for some guidance on customizing the existing report for Newly Added VMs to include the person who created them. I can only assume this is possible by somehow extrapolating the information from the tasks list of vcentre, but not sure how to add that into my report. Any guidance or direction towards a…
We have an exciting beta available for your perusal, please come check it out. Inside of the Beta forum, you'll find some walk through documents, so even if you're not able to spend the time to install the beta, you can absolutely still participate and give us feedback.
I have looked over similar threads but could not find an answer in any of them for my issue. We currently have VMAN v8.2 monitoring two vcenter nodes. We updated one of the vcenter nodes to Vcenter 6.5.0.22000 Build 9451637 and now solar winds is reporting the operational state as "unknown". If I check the node itself, it…
Features/Functionality included in VMAN 8.3 Starting with VMAN 8.0, the appliance is no longer a requirement for VMAN, as it was in prior versions. VMAN functionality has been migrating over to the Orion Platform, with some functionality only available with VMAN on Orion, and some only available on the legacy appliance.…
Hello, I have been searching for a while trying to find a complete support matrix for VMAN and some of the Solar Winds products. However, I haven't had much luck. My end goal is to upgrade vCenter to 6.5u2, and I just wanted to do some compatibility checks to make sure any upgrades to VMAN / other Solar Wind products take…
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