We use solarwinds Virtualization Manager v6.0.0.10001. I have 5 cluster and host is vmware ESXI 5.1
We use DRS and HA in each cluster. How many VMs machine moved in a day? How do I learn?
Hi caglarisa,
Can I inquire a bit deeper on this to help answer? What problem are you trying to solve? What exactly do you want to know and why?
Hi Balki,
My manager wants to me number of VMs between hosts is circulating. I want to give this report.
Thanks a alot for your help and interest
Regards
Haha, well I can certainly appreciate the approach of "the boss gets what the boss wants." :-)
But seriously, I don't believe there is a direct way to get explicitly what you are asking for, but maybe if you asked your manager why he wanted this information we might be able to come up with an approach that works to satisfy the underlying need?
I can understand the reason/usage for this, if I may.
Tracking the number, and specific virtual machines that migrate due to DRS allows us to verify if there is a trouble machine that is 'running hot', or a cluster that is being over-utilized. I know that there are ways to track it (have seen it done via vCheck) - but a widget for # of DRS migrations by cluster (over X-time) with a callout of which VMs migrated at what times would be a GREAT value-add. I know for a fact that I would use it.
Thanks,
Brian
I think the best approach for you with the current functionality is to build a trend per cluster off the cluster.vMotionCount property. This is a running total of the number of vMotions on a cluster. It will not give you the names of the VM's that moved. However, a bit of a workaround is to create an alert condition on this variable that fires when the counter changes. Combined with a host-vm mapping report, you could manually determine what VM's moved. I hope that helps!
If you had an alert/trend built on that property, you can also use the "Time Travel" feature on the Environment Map to determine what VM's changed on a specifc host. Hope that helps!
Hi Balki, Would you mind to share on how to trigger an alert for VMOTION please? Thank you.
