jonathan.reeve

Thanks. Currently, we pull out the name value pairs (Attributes part) of the annotations but not the notes field (see screen below) - I will file an enhancement request to also pull the notes part of the annotations from vCenter.

You can get to the online virtualization manager manual here http://www.solarwinds.com/support/vMan/vManDoc.aspx If you search for "sharepoint" in the html manual, there is a section on how to embed a virtualization manager widget into a Sharepoint portal or similar. Jon

The notification is stored with the alert in the database so we won't back propagate the values to old alerts - but all alerts going forward should now have those values stored with them. Jon

There is a section on Alerts in the online manual here http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/vMan/docs/html/en-US/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm You can lower the collection schedule for performance jobs to a minimum of 5 minutes You probably want to make sure that your performance jobs are taking much less than 5…

The first step is to identify the search to find all of your non local datastores. Once we have this, we can use this as the search to use for the widget in question. Can you try this datastore search? Let me know if the search is correctly identifying all of your non local datastores. datastore.local:"false"

Tom, There are some map density improvements in the 4.1 release that is now GA. That should helps to see more objects at once. Let us know what you think. Thanks Jon

http://mcpmag.com/articles/2011/09/21/partners-tap-hyperv-3-virtual-switch.aspx

One final suggestion - you could try filtering out the RDM VMs from the Top N widget you could try a search like the follwing to find all non RDM VMs * AND NOT vm.vdisk.type:Raw* Jon

1. You can do this in a variety of ways but generally you can use search to group VMs and hosts by customer. For example, a search for all of the VMs in a certain folder or Resource Pool, or having a specific naming convention. We also have custom fields (labels) that can be applied to objects. 2. We use a PostgreSQL…

Would you mind posting a screenshot of a populated and non populated annotation from your vcenter? Jon

Here is the link to obtain the appliance update http://downloads.solarwinds.com/solarwinds/Release/VirtualizationManager/SolarWinds-Virtualization-Manager-Appliance-Upgrade-ISO-4.0.zip Online documentation has steps for upgrading an…

Excellent! thanks for the feedback

You should also be able to easily choose read and write IOPs values and add them as additional columns if you want, just like the previous columns were added. Jon

Tom - I'll shoot you an email. Jon

Yes Hyper-V 3 is reported to have a virtual switch and support for 3rd party vendor virtual switches (Cisco and others) Jon

Are units set to "none"?

Attaching the Alert created in the above example, example_alert.xml, this can be imported into Virtualization Manager in the "Content" tab inside the product. You will need to edit the cluster name to match your environment, and edit the email address that you want the alert sent to. You can do a "save as" on this alert to…

One quick caveat I should add with the previous, is that VM IOPs on the widget will show the total IOPs for the VM going to all datastores - not just the portion going to that particular datastore. It looks like from the chart that you have one or more VMs that span across multiple LUNs - in which case the "drill down"…

what is the title of the widget you're trying to restrict? Jon

The only difference from trying from a browser would be the reachability from the browser (your desktop) vs from the appliance itself where the test is performed from - does the appliance for sure have connectivity to the vCenter instance? Regards Jon

This is the average IOPs (per second) over the respective time period. (day, week, month) Jon

- The federated collector is a linux based (VMware) virtual appliance, so should be pretty flexible configuration wise as far as multi-homing - All communication is essentially push (message bus) and occurs over port tcp/61616 (ActiveMQ) between the collectors and the main appliance - NAT is likely possible with some…

Are you logged in as an admin when you delete them? The other thing you could try is to delete the dashboard from the content section, and restore the defaults. Jon

Will do

We provide a number of "templates" (groups of properties) out of the box so that you don't have to select each property individually. (you can also save properties of interest as a template so that you can reuse them and don't have to enter them every time) The "VM Inactivity Report Template" might be a good one to try…

OK got it. Yes - compare button is the way to access DNA comparison. If you just select one VM and hit compare, it will compare the VM to itself, from where you can then compare back to the time of interest

To obtain in URL to a widget click on the "Copy widget link" option under the widget options:

Let's walk through it One way to do this is to monitor the hearbeat on the VM that is communicated from VM tools to the host. Note that VM tools must be installed on the guest to properly receive the hearbeat metric. So we want to know if a VM has no heartbeat OR of the VM is powered off. The query for that is…

Which report are you running that still shows the deleted VM? Jon

OK - one thing you could do is to create a "Top N" widget for each datastore you want to look at i.e. a top N widget for each datastore of interest that shows a list of VMs ranked by IOPs using that datastore If you look on the "storage" dashboard - there is a widget called "VM IOPs Hour" which is a good starting point You…