I am unable to discover the Network Storage Resource on servers(vms) that I am monitoring with the Agent. I am only able to discover it when the polling method is WMI.
How do we fix that?
Bump
The information is only available via WMI at this time. It's probably a feature request to provide the same ability via Agent as well.
well that's disappointing.
thank you for the info.
What does the network storage resource provide me anyhow? Just mapped network drives on the server?
Correct. Mapping of *physical* servers using SAN storage. It makes no difference for virtual machines
It maps your VMs to Storage.
Of course it makes a difference. I want to know what LUN my VM's vmdk is running from so that I determine if performance degradation is slow because of disk problems.
not network drives, the virtual hard disk and it's mapping down to the SAN.
You only need to query your vCenter for mapping VMs to your SAN storage.
or am I out in left field.
So the best solution would be to use WMI polling for physical machines, and feel comfortable using the agents for VMs, provided one owns VMAN, its is integrated, and is monitoring vCenters. Yes?
