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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…
Does the product install a client on the ESXi Servers, vCenter, or the associated VMs? Thanks, Michael
A dashboard that shows how many licenses would be required for vSphere 5. The dashboard shows: * Total vRAM Pool (total memory allocated to all Powered ON VMs) * vSphere 5 licenses for vRAM (the number of vSphere licenses required for each vSphere edition to meet vRAM entitlement) * Total socket count (the total number of…
Hey folks, In VMan, in the "All Alerts" dashboard widget, there are always 5ish alerts flagged on topics more related to optimization than actual issues. While this awareness is all fine and dandy, the perfectionist in me really doesn't like having near-permanent alerts active. To me, if an alerted state is…
When people hear the term “key performance indicators”, they often think of management metrics. But, if you’re here, you also know – or at least suspect – that there are a variety of key performance indicators that are vital to the health of your virtual environment. Moreover, you are likely aware that keeping all KPI’s…
Check out the blog post here and get the dashboard here
Just trying to confirm which of our support tools provide support for vShpere 5. Wondering if NPM and the virtualization monitoring feature supports vSphere 5 yet? We are looking at about a 3 week timeframe of needing actual support for the start of our planned upgrades.
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