jonathan.reeve

That's certainly possible. If you go to the "Content" link at the top (the content section of the product) - there is a button to restore defaults. Also - are you on 4.x? The showback dashboard was added in the 4.0 release.

I think this query should do the trick * AND NOT vm.annotation.name:* Meaning show me all VMs that do not have an annotation name value that we have collected. Let me know. Jon

You can see which windows machines you are collecting WMI from with the following query vm.guestFullName:*Windows* AND vm.env.os.displayName:* If you go to the content section or try and load a saved search, there should be a search for misaligned VMs.

Yes - I will send you a link to the update. Jon

Do you mind me asking why you want to limit it to 10 items? I think we show something like 14 right now on one widget if you don't scroll :)

ok - that should not happen, please open a support ticket. Thanks Jon

We have successfully tested against the vSphere 5 release candidate so you should be good to go. Jon

The logic to detect local datastores has been improved in the latest service release I would welcome feedback on whether the datastore.local attribute is now correctly identifying your local datastores. Jon

These queries do exactly the same thing. The {} are exclusive ranges and [] are inclusive. One reason why we changed these is that the newer format is the one that is used by the "query builder" - so we wanted the default examples that we provide to match what the query builder produces. Jon

Memory management in VMware is a complex topic - you can find more details here http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/perf-vsphere-memory_management.pdf Jon

We also have a KB on this here http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/2691/Backing+up+configuration+and+collection+data

Thanks John - we put out an updated blog post and updated the dashboard to reflect this change Best Regards Jon

Help-> About should show 4.1.2 for the latest version. The ZIP files above on the customer portal should contain the latest version. Jon

Tom, Let me know if you'd like to speak to a Product Manager about this. Thanks Jon

Have you filed a support ticket to look into this? If not, please do so. Thanks Jon

You can also use the following to display volume % free for all volumes even if more than 5% left string-join(for $fullVolume in /virtualMachine/diskVolume return concat($fullVolume/mountPoint, ' (' , $fullVolume/freeSpacePercentage, '%)'), ', ')

Here is the other property I think you're looking for

Hi Tomaddox, Someone will be in touch from support for this case. Thanks Jon

You should be able to use search (which backs most of the widgets) to remove local datastores. For example, in the query builder, there is a property that will tell you if a datastore is local or not. Let me know what widget you are trying to create.

Tom, The map view should go full screen in the 4.1 release that is now GA. Please let us know what you think. Thanks Jon

You can create a customized dashboard using search queries for example to only show cluster 1, where you will need to use a search query for each widget on the dashboard. It is a similar process outlined here Each user can make a dashboard private to them so another user won't see it when they log in. However, each user…

Hi lortigo, You are trying to add a vCenter as a datasource? Do you use a different port than the default (443)? Thanks Jon

We don't track who is currently logged in right now. If you enable WMI data collection, we should however track when the last login occurred and the last account to log in. We leverage this in an out of the box search to help identify VMs where nobody has logged in for more than 30 days. vm.env.os.lastLoginUser:* AND…

This typically means that we have not collected performance data on that item recently. If that item still exists in you environment and it remains grey, you may want to open a support case. Jon

One good way to do this is to use the performance analyzer and plot the network transmitted and received throughput for a host, and you can "drill down" into the transmitted or received throughput on a per NIC basis. Jon

The easiest way to clean up content (including dashboards) is to go to the content link at the top of the product screen From here, you can see all content in the system, filter it by type etc... so if I just show the dashboards, I can find the ones I want to delete.

Hi there, Are these datastores dedicated to this cluster, or are they also used by hosts in other clusters? Thanks Jon

There is no easy way to do this today - I will take this as a feature request. Best Regards Jon

Nice use case! Try the following search query * AND NOT vm.Funding:* This should return the VMs that do not have a value applied for the funding label. Let me know. Jon

Hyper-V support is one of the things we're working on Let me know if you'd be willing to speak with a product manager. Thanks Jon