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Re: VMWare datastore reports
mjbehrendt Mar 28, 2013 3:28 PM (in response to aLTeReGo)No. I'm running ESXi and it is a giant pain to get an SNMP running on the hosts. I'm monitoring the host hardware via vCenter. When I drill down into an individual node (Virtualization tab, expand vcenter server, expand datacenter, expand cluster, click on node) I can expand disk and see a list of my iSCSI disks, and their total capacity, but not how much space they have free/used.
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Re: VMWare datastore reports
aLTeReGoMar 28, 2013 5:28 PM (in response to mjbehrendt)
Each ESX/i host managed in Orion (regardless if VMware polling is occurring direct or through a vCenter) must be configured to use SNMP if you want to see volume usage metrics. Orion does not currently collect volume usage information using the VMware API. It's very likely that your ESXi hosts are managed as ICMP nodes, and not via SNMP.
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Re: VMWare datastore reports
mjbehrendt Mar 29, 2013 8:30 AM (in response to aLTeReGo)Thanks,
I am polling the ESXi hosts via ICMP, not SNMP. When I was originally setting up Orion, the walk through for how to enable SNMP on an ESXi host had some gaping holes in it making it unusable. Has it gotten any better since the release of ESXi 5.1?
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Re: VMWare datastore reports
aLTeReGoMar 29, 2013 11:20 AM (in response to mjbehrendt)
It's not terribly bad. You can follow the instructions outlined at the link below to enable SNMP on ESXi 5.1.
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Re: VMWare datastore reports
Jay Harris Mar 28, 2013 3:05 PM (in response to mjbehrendt)Mark,
I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but here is a report I put together.
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Re: VMWare datastore reports
mjbehrendt Mar 28, 2013 3:29 PM (in response to Jay Harris)Jay,
I tried that report, and it only gives me the drive space used on the vCenter server. I would like a report that details the datastores that are attached to the ESXi servers in the various clusters I have.
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Re: VMWare datastore reports
Jay Harris Mar 28, 2013 5:02 PM (in response to mjbehrendt)2 of 2 people found this helpfulIt is interesting that it only shows vCenter. In my network it shows vCenter, all ESXi nodes, and their datastores. I monitor my VM nodes through vCenter using a domain account that has rights to vCenter. My storage is on Fibre Channel.
I noticed in your response to aLTeReGo that you were looking in the Hardware Health section for your disk info. My space usage is not there. It is in the "Disk Volumes" resource.
Here is a screenshot of my Virtualization settings, in case that helps.
It seems to me that the polling is not quite right. I will ask my VMware guy if he has an easy way to get the SNMP settings working quickly on nodes.
UPDATE:
My VMware guy uses vCenter CLI to set a host up for SNMP using these commands:
vicfg-snmp.pl --server hostname --username username --password password -c community
vicfg-snmp.pl --server hostname --username username --password password --enable
He then makes a host profile from that host and applies it to each host in the cluster.
He said it can also be run against each host individually.
He also mentioned that all of our hosts have their authentication services setup for Active Directory.
Just as a very simple example:
vicfg-snmp.pl --server 10.11.12.14 --username root --password rootpass –c public
vicfg-snmp.pl --server 10.11.12.14 --username root --password rootpass –enable
VMWare docs on this are here:
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Re: VMWare datastore reports
mjbehrendt Mar 28, 2013 4:50 PM (in response to Jay Harris)Thanks Jay.
My VM Ware settings page looks a lot like yours.
My "Disk Volumes" section is empty. Weird.
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Re: VMWare datastore reports
mjbehrendt May 8, 2013 9:02 AM (in response to mjbehrendt)Sorry to necro-post on this one, but I'm still not getting details of my iSCSI volumes on my ESXi 5.1 hosts. I've enabled SNMP on each host and changed the polling method to SNMP and ICMP. It's been that way for about a month, and still nothing in the disk volumes section on any of the hosts.
Any other ideas?
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Re: VMWare datastore reports
aLTeReGoMay 8, 2013 1:08 PM (in response to mjbehrendt)
1 of 1 people found this helpfulSince changing the polling method from ICMP to SNMP have you clicked "List Resources" on the "Management" resource on the "Node Details" view for that node? Are the volumes listed and are they selected to be monitored? A screenshot might be helpful.
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Re: VMWare datastore reports
mjbehrendt May 8, 2013 1:42 PM (in response to aLTeReGo)That seems to have done the trick.
Next question: Is there a way to have the volume name something meaningful? It just shows me a long string like /vmfs/volumes/4ec2b746-80ec562e-58f6-00219b8df30f.
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Re: VMWare datastore reports
hcy01uk Oct 18, 2013 7:01 AM (in response to mjbehrendt)Another VMware Datastore Report http://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-171611