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Would it be possible to review the vCenter event history and correlate to the time that the action was performed. Im hoping that there were errors tracked that line up with the action. Otherwise we would need to grab the logs to confirm what the issue is.

Let me check out the case and get back to you.

Ok so this is expected behavior. When VMAN polls vCenter it gathers data on the virtual environment using the VMWare API and automatically provides hosts and environmental information (WMI for Hyper-V). This same data still shows up when VMAN integration is enabled with Orion. The difference being is that SAM (Orion in…

ctmidnight You are correct in that VMAN nor IVIM does not integrate with existing alarms defined within vcenter. You are also correct in that you can configure SNMP traps for vcenter and point them to the orion server to collect. The following link is a run through on managing syslogs and traps with Orion that should be…

Hey Russ, I just wanted to check in to see if you are still experiencing the issue. If so can you post a screenshot of the issue? Also once you updated the VMAN appliance did you update Orion as well. You should be running VIM 2.1 on the Orion side.

To identify any ESX hosts that have the queueDepth property populated it is possible to display 1 value per entity using a customer alert (in our case 1 computed value per host; the value can be a number or any string concatenated from multiple values – anything that is possible to express with XPath) . The notification…

The system that has the property set in my environment is 5.5 so I will confirm that this is true for 5.1 as well. Another idea is to confirm if the HBA queue depth was set on the ESXi hosts (or if they were left to default). I used the following link to determine which HBA was installed on my ESXi servers and settings.…

In addition to Lukas' response, the Auditing feature can be found under Alerts & Activities - Message Center.

Bill This issue seems to be happening with some occurrence as of late but not for everyone that is loading the latest version. I spoke to engineering and support and they said that some of the cases have occurred with no upgrade or much much later after the upgrade has occurred so it's not necessarily tied to the upgrade. 

Bob were you able to open a support ticket after all? If so did they resolve your issue?

Christopher, Sorry about your difficulties, I just sent you a DM

Marc Keep an eye out for RC post for VMAN coming out soon regarding Capacity Planning.

What do you get when you click on a LUN from SRM without connecting from VMAN?

Darcy This is usually indicative of an integration issue when VMs in VMAN are not showing up in Orion when integration is enabled. Confirm that your configuration collections are successfully completing on the VMAN appliance and confirm that there are no licensing or other errors showing up on the appliance. If everything…

Hi, If you login to VMAN appliance as "admin" and run the fsck command via "sudo su" Does that accomplish what you need?

That is correct, you would need to make sure the account you use doesn't have permissions to the clusters/hosts you are excluding.

Can you create a ticket with support so that we can get access to the diagnostic logs to investigate further? Please send us te ticket number as well.

Max, For some additional clarification, adding the Host as a node to get interface alerts and details will work only if you have NPM installed as well. I hope this helps.

CPU and Memory will let you continue but the available storage requirement will keep you from moving forward on the install.

Are you polling from VMAN or from Orion the Orion console as a node?

Vic Over the last couple of releases we have been moving more features from the VMAN Appliance to the to the Orion platform with the goal of making feature changes and net new features on the Orion platform. With the release of 6.2 we continued by moving over all Out-of-the-Box alerting and reporting to Orion and included…

Joshua Yes, Cloud Monitoring does in fact refer to AWS & Azure and the road map for VMAN moving forward is to make the option to have full VMAN functionality including polling in Orion (aka VIM) without the appliance. 

Tarkan We are not forcing customers such as yourself to migrate off the appliance in the next release. In fact, you will have the chance to monitor your environment with the new version and the legacy version of VMAN and can easily switch the polling method to Orion and use the just the Orion version of VMAN at your…

Tom VMAN has been moving functionality to the Orion platform for several releases (e.g. Virtualization alerts, Sprawl, Perfstack ...aka performance analyzer ) while adding new functionality that doesn't exist in the appliance (recommendations, Cloud monitoring, & AppStack). The product team will continue to do so after…

Alois We investigated support for Xen Server but during this time market share has dropped and customer requests have significantly dropped off as well. During this same time period, requests for new functionality such as software defined storage and hybrid cloud support for Azure & AWS increased, thereby taking priority…

Tom Advanced search capabilities as you described will be part of a core Orion platform intiative that will be available to all products that plug into the Orion platform. This is currently a work in progress and I will make sure to update thIs page with that information.

Chris did support provide any explanation why the poll was 12 hrs? There are two polls in VMAN a configuration poll (every 12 hrs) and a performance poll every 10 mins. I'm assuming this was the performance poll that was set to the wrong time frame.

The upgrade advisor has not yet been updated to reflect the newest releases. This should be happening soon.

VIRTUALIZATION MANAGER 8.1 RC 1 IS NOW AVAILABLE IN YOUR CUSTOMER PORTAL!

Andreas, The VMAN RC 8.1 is available in your customer portal and it contains the new Capacity Planning. I'll be posting a blog outlining the details tomorrow morning so keep an eye out for that. Yours truly, Santa