jonathan.reeve

Hi there, In a virtual environment, metrics received from inside the guest can be unreliable for a number of reasons including hypervisor overhead not being taken into account, clock skew and more. This blog post has some detailed explanation http://vpivot.com/2010/02/10/inaccuracy-of-in-guest-performance-counters/ This is…

Let's walk through it I would add a widget to your dashboard to do this. The widget you want to add in the Top N widget This brings up the Top N widget configuration dialog - click on the query tab, select datastores and a search query of * to show all the datastores in your environment. Let's now pick a sort field - we…

One thing to check on the storage side is that we have "browse datastore" permissions enabled for the account we are using to talk to vCenter. The predicted depletion jobs run nightly so you may have to wait at least a day for those to fill in. We have the ability to tie a script action to an alert - we have a couple out…

It is possible but takes a little work. You can copy or create the existing widgets to a new dashboard and edit the search query behind each widget to only pick up the items of interest. Related post Jon

Hi Tom, This is a known issue with the upgrade (should not occur on fresh install) - the system is duplicating some widgets when the upgrade logic is applied when you restart the VM. We'll look to fix this in a future update. The behavior should be largely benign and you should be able to delete the excess widgets. Jon

Are you using the virtual appliance? The virtual appliance is our preferred method of deployment for Virtualization Manager. Our general recommendation here is to use whatever you use to backup your VMs right now, whether using snapshots etc... or a VM backup vendor. Thanks Jon

Hi Greg, Configuration collection (every 12 hours by default) would need to run in order to pick up the name change on the resource pool. Are you still having this result even after configuration collection has run? Thanks Jon

1. Virtualization Manager dashboard widgets can be embedded into Orion - you can read about that here 2. Virtualization Manager does not integrate into the alerting engine, but Virtualization Manager alerts can be forwarded as SNMP traps. 3. For VMware data collection, only port 443 should be required. 4. Virtualization…

Hi Simone, Could you post a screenshot? Thanks Jon

Thanks Tom - I have filed request #90453 to track this. What kind of report are you trying to generate when you go back in time like this? One point to note is that although the map view shows the historical state and performance of the virtual infrastructure, if you select items in this view and generate a report (e.g.…

There is no SNMP agent on the virtual appliance - you would need to install something like net-snmp on the appliance to do this. Jon

Thanks - Hyper-V is something we are working on

Hi Tomaddox, Someone will be in touch to discuss your support concerns. Thanks Jon

Hi djw55, Probably the best way to proceed here is to apply the 5.0 version to the old 2003 server, and use the 30 day eval license. From there, you can migrate a v5 (2003) repository to your new v5 (2008) machine. There is a KB article…

I will send that to you offline since we don't publish that. Jon

Thanks for this request - pls keep them coming!

We don't collect that information today - but I am tracking under request 48469. Thanks Jon

Hi Jesse, We had a brief issue with the trial license that we have subsequently resolved. If you try downloading the appliance again, you should no longer encounter this issue. Thanks Jon

Hi, I would recommend you open a ticket with support to investigate this issue. Best Regards Jon

Please contact support for this. Jon

You may also be interested in reading about the "Time Travel" feature that we are working on, that exploits the rich historical data we have in Hyper9.

Yes - Hyper9 does does keep a history of present and past alerts on objects like VMs, hosts, datastores etc... You can also look at configuration changes to VMs and hosts over time using our "DNA" feature - I compare the config now to a previous time we collected data on it for example. You would like to see events for…

We don't collect this property today - I will file a feature request. Thanks Jon

No currently - although Virtualization Manager widgets can be embedded in the Orion dashboards - that is documented here http://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/solarwinds-community/product-blog/blog/2011/08/29/single-pane-of-glass-tying-in-storage-manager-virtualization-manager-into-orion-dashboard Jon

Hi there, what alert are you trying to create? Thanks Jon

One of the easiest ways is to add the VMs (objects) of interest to a list. i.e. select the Inactive VMs in the alert (ctrl, shift select should also work) and add them to a list with the "add to list" button. Then if you go to your list tab, you should be able to select all of these VMs in your list and hit the "export"…

Hi there, I think you may have hit an issue here that should be logged with support. Thanks Jon

We have a default search out of the box that will find VMs that are new to Hyper9 within the last 7 days, this can be eaily changed to 30 days like so vm.h9.dateCreated:[now-30days TO *] Note that these are VMs new to Hyper9, and not the creation date of the VM, but if Hyper9 has been running a while - this should be a…

For N-1, we subtract the host with the highest memory, then CPU etc... so you can perform a worst case analysis essentially if you were to lose the host with the most memory, CPU. We allow you to plan base off of peak usage, or something less aggressive such as 95th percentile etc.... As well as the small, medium, large -…

Please open a support case for this - in general the answer is to give more disk space to the appliance. Jon