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vCOPS login headache
hi I am using domain account to log in to my 3 vCenters.Now vCOPS was installed and I am using my same AD account to login to VCOPS for instance charlie.richard but when I login to my...
View ArticlevApp 5.0.2 - Adapter Connection failed
Im sure this has been asked before... but i seem to have the mondays... and I can remember how to resolve this error when trying to connect to a smarts domain.My test fails when I test creation. the...
View ArticleWhen will VNX/Netapp dashboard be available for vCops 5.6?
vCops 5.6 Enterprise lists VNX/Netapp plugins as included with the product. At VMworld VNX dashboards were previewed. Will there be newer VNX/VMAX/Netapp adapters and dashboards available to vCops...
View ArticlevCOPS scalaility
Hi, I have some questions regarding scaling vCOPS 1. Does vCOPS support large implementation of managing 100K servers?2. If it does what is the recommended architecture? How many vCOPS server would we...
View ArticleViewing Storage Statistics for datastores
Other than the "planning" -> "summary" tab, is there anywhere else where I can view the average commands per second (IOPS) for a given datastore? Thanks
View ArticlevCOPS and Hyperic
Hi guys, I've installed vCOPS and also Hyperic for Application level monitoring. Have added a Hyperic adapter on vCOPS so i can show all the metrics hyperic collects on vCOPS. When i'm customizing the...
View Articlephysical vmnic down reporting in vCops
vCops reports a physical NIC linkstate down and gives for the health 0 for 1 ESXi host.This is very strange since these are just spare NIC which are not connected to a vSwitch and are not used by the...
View ArticleClearing Alerts in vC Ops 5.0.3
Hi Folks, I need to clear a number of alerts, but was wondering - what is the difference between suspend and alert or suppress an alert - and when do I use either?
View ArticleUsing vCenter Operations to troubleshoot performance problems
A paper has been recently published in the performance area. It has a lot of great information in it so I'd like to point it out here too. For details, see http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-23094
View ArticleDifference between editions of vCenter Operations Manager.
I was searching for the difference between the editions of vCenter Operations Manager but I am always redirected to the difference between the vCenter Operations Manager Suite. I just want to know the...
View ArticleRemove guest alert from vC OPS
Hi,My vcops-vsphere alert dashboard is fullfilled by alerts like "Guest filesystem out of space". Guest OS alerts are for sysadmin, who are using another monitoring tools, so I would like to get rid of...
View ArticleWhat version of VCOPS do you think I need?
First of all we’re a rather small installation. vSphere Standard, though I expect that to be bumped to Ent or Ent Plus by the end of the year.1 Bladecenter with 4x blades for our ESXi hosts4x ESXi...
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Adapter version not updating when re-describing
Running vCenter Operations 5.7 vApp. Grabbed the third-party SNMP adapter via ftp://ftp.integrien.com/ and installed the pak file via the update tab of the admin website. Logged into the custom site,...
View ArticleRepeated "user x@ip logged in and "user x logged out" messages in events...
This repeats constantly one after the other and is filling up my lots. KB search points to Management Assistant, but I am not using that.This started happening imidiately after installing the VCOPS...
View ArticleRe: Hyperic Adapter and vC Ops 5.7
Hello Guys, I have couple questions regarding the Hyperic and vC Ops integration? Here is the scenario We are on vC Ops 5.7 advanced version license. When you compare to enterprise version it says vC...
View ArticleReclaimable waste
So I'm coming from vKernel, where the right sizer takes into account peaks when giving recommendations on removing/adding resources. According to the configuration on oversized VM's, it's only looking...
View ArticleMonitor vCNS?
I was told it might be possible to monitor vCNS with operations manager but I can't find any information on it. Does anyone know if this is possible?
View Articlecpu AND ram usage supermetric
Hi all, I'm using vcops 5.7I need an alarm when cpu&ram usage are both < 40% for a week on a host system. I think a supermetric can help me, but I don' t know how.I think something like this: if...
View Articleadapter to show up in vcOps
I've got an hyperic server which collects data from some physical machines. I've also setup the hyperic adapter in vcOps which shows up in the vcOps-custom UI. Is there a way to show all collected...
View ArticlevAPP deployment
i'm looking to demo the vcenter operations manager but can't find anywhere in the documentation the recommended vlan. Should it be on the vsphere vlan or the virtual machine vlan?
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