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One of the useful aspects of Orion and NPM is the statistics gathering for performance and capacity planning...until you have to change the IP address for whatever reason or similar events. Now all of the carefully gathered performance data is gone. What do you use to trend the old to the new? How do you know if you have…
Has anyone crafted a way to report on the Top 10 or Top 25 circuits (remote locations) with trending and capacity planning in view. I can print out Top XX reports for time periods but seeing trending over time doesn't seem to be available. I've considered number of alerts of a certain type per node, but can't seem to craft…
Hello All We currently use VMAN 8.2 for capacity planning. However, we have multiple datacenters with multiple clusters in each datacenter. I am curious to hear what the community has done to ease capacity planning at the cluster level. Does everyone run each individual cluster simulation and then roll up the results? Or…
Welcome to SolarWinds blog series “Diving Deeper with NetFlow – Tips and Tricks”. This is the last part of the 6 part series where you can learn new tips by understanding more about NetFlow and some use cases for effective network monitoring. In the previous blog, we had discussed about Quality of Service (QoS) and how you…
Whether it’s Hyper-V or VMware or any other virtual environment, growth is inevitable for virtual machines (VM) and workload in any data center setup. IT teams always want to know how many VMs can be created on a physical host, and how much more VM workload can my host resources support? Especially for Hyper-V environment,…
Network bandwidth capacity planning is all about balancing user performance expectations against capital budgets. Organizations try to control costs by investing in the minimum amount of bandwidth necessary to handle user needs. However, in many cases this could lead to congestion or poor application performance. Moreover,…
Capacity planning is not an easy thing to do in a virtual environment as it requires significant effort to understand the demands of the constantly-evolving virtual infrastructure. Enterprises that start optimizing their virtual machine (VM) provisioning strategies can quickly see a strong ROI. If host resources are left…
Say you get handed a lab full of virtual machines and hosts. You are now responsible for everything to do with that lab. People will vilify you when they have problems and ignore you when they don't. What's your first move? Are you going to ignore it? Hope no one notices who is now responsible? Dogmatically reassure…
Hi Guys, Doing a capacity plan, and I'm a tad confused by the results of the above it. I cant figure out how it has defined its raw capacity for this field or where its getting its observed usage from since no other report seems to correlate (i would imagine it would match to the cluster vm max iop usage report but its…
Has anyone found a way to reduce the length of time that Virtualization Manager keeps data? It's currently eating ~100gb/week for me, which is a little ridiculous, in my opinion.
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