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We've had many occurrences over the last few months where our storage team will put virtual hosts into maintenance mode (which only applies to the node & not the virtual hosts themselves), under the impression that muting has been paused on these hosts, then said virtual hosts will trigger alerts anyways. The response from…
Looking to verify that I have my information correct as to where the Guest Status is derived from in VMAN. Am I correct that Guest Status is basically a pass-through piece of information coming from vSphere? Is it correct that a Warning or Critical state for the Guest Status is reflective of an alarm that exists in vSphere…
Hi All, I am new to Solarwinds. I would like to monitor a vSphere environment. I have added the vCenter to Solarwinds, and it scans and bombards me with things that are either good or bad, everything fine... But now i want to exclude certain vm's from an alert for example i want to exclude them from the "VMs with Large…
We need to identify and monitor these HBA's so we can set up alerting for connectivity loss when necessary. Asset Inventory shows the hardware model, but does not display firmware/software versions...showing as "unknown" for all. See screenshots and attached text file below...they only show up under "other" as "add-in…
I’m a huge fan of AWS. Not that AWS (Amazon Web Services), even though I do like that AWS and it exemplifies this AWS. This AWS is all about agility, web-scale, and simplicity. These are core tenets of IT transformation, also known as the Consumerization of IT. To keep up with this AWS and that AWS, IT admins need to…
Got any zombies on your network? That probably depends on how you define “zombie,” right? Virtual Machine Zombies A zombie could be a lost, lone virtual machine languishing on your network. Or a zombie might be a dummy machine, taken over by a spammer, sending out spam messages whenever it’s ordered to. Whether you’re…
There’s a lot of talk right now in the blogosphere about VMware’s recent announcement of vSphere 5 licensing, that pools of vRAM (allocated memory across VMs) will be used as a key basis for licensing in vSphere 5. This is a great opportunity to explore the flexibility of the Virtualization Manager product (previously…
In a previous blog post, we explored how to create a Virtualization Manager dashboard that tracked the total vRAM pool, host CPU sockets and the number of vSphere 5 licenses required for each edition based on VMware’s recently announced vSphere 5. Last week (presumably based on customer feedback), VMware announced a slight…
DESCRIPTION: Please join us for a free webinar with Scott Lowe, Founder and Managing Consultant at The 1610 Group, and SolarWinds virtualization expert Jonathan Reeve. We’ll be discussing “Hyper-V vs. vSphere: Understanding the differences.” The virtualization market is abuzz with talk of different hypervisors – most…
I could use some help. I do not have VMAN, but I do have SAM, NCM, and NPM with unlimited licensing. What is the best I can do with the mentioned licensing and basic poling using API, SNMP etc for vSphere 7? Some general advice would go a long way for me. Here are the components of our environment and what I need…
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