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Guest storage space utilization - exclude a few drives

networkadminz over 8 years ago

Good day all,

Below is an email that I receive about disk storage. I like the alert as it is setup but I have a few drives that I have dedicated for pagefiles or are a few TB in size and I do not want to have 5% free space reserved on them. On these servers, and only on these select drives on these servers, how can I exclude them from this alert?

Thanks in advance!

Virtualization Manager v6.3.0.10011

Description: Amount of disk space available inside the guest is less than 5% on one or more volumes

Time Executed: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 16:55:15

Current Overall Alert State: ACTIVE

Recommendation: The guest is running low on disk space on one or more disk volumes. Consider removing unneeded files, or expanding the disk space available to the guest. Consider the active links below for further drill down.

Alert Active for:

VirtualMachine: sharepoint (E:\ (0%)) 2. VirtualMachine: admin (E:\ (1%), F:\ (1%)) 3. VirtualMachine: dell-old (H:\ (5%)) 4. VirtualMachine: backups (F:\ (0%), E:\ (2%))

0 chrispaap over 8 years ago

Nick
The answer for excluding a specific volume can be found here Re: Making Widget out of Alert?
Here is an excerpt from the page:
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Excluding particular drives
in alerts you can skip particular disk drives (unable to do that in widgets). Such issue was already discussed at Re: Skip certain volume label or drive letter in the Guest Storage Space Utilization script or Re: Re: How can I exclude a volume from alerting about low disk space? Thwack threads.
If you need to exclude particular disks on particular virtual machines then you can use something like that (this xPath excludes C:\ mount point on "tex-2k8-2LUNS" virtual machine and /boot mount point on "Analytics VM" virtual machine):
if (/virtualMachine[name="tex-2k8-2LUNS"])
then min(/virtualMachine/diskVolume[mountPoint != "C:\"]/freeSpacePercentage)
else if (/virtualMachine[name="Analytics VM"])
then min(/virtualMachine/diskVolume[mountPoint != "/boot"]/freeSpacePercentage)
else min(/virtualMachine/diskVolume/freeSpacePercentage)

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