Backup strategies for vCOps
I would like to know what success / recommendations people have had with different backup strategies for vCOps. Problem: In a large environment your vCOps VM gets very big (>2TB of virtual disk...
View ArticleCUSTOM UI SCORBOAD-HEALTH BADGE THRESHOLD COLOR INCORRECT/INVERSE
Hi all, in custom ui i have a widget SCORBOARD-HELTH whith select any object (vcenter, host or cluster) and selecting on right-up corner the "helth > badge|efficiency". When a did ok, the widget...
View ArticleCustom UI - Best widgets, metrics and interactions to analyze storage...
Hi Community, I'm trying to create a custom dashboard which gives me a complete overview of my datacenter storage resources and peaks (Latency, IO, Usage,...).I already build one with a Metric Graph...
View ArticleUnable to register a vCenter
Hi all, in myfarm (which already includestwentyvCenter) I'm trying torecord a newVC. Unfortunately,I always getthe same error"Connection to ...https://XXXX/sdkfailed"by the adminofvCOPS.Thepingto and...
View ArticleMonitoring the status of vCOPs itself
Hi All I've been using vCOPs (Enterprise vAPP) for a good while now with fairly mixed results. One of the issues that is stumping me right now is monitoring the status of the vCOPs VMs and Services...
View ArticleFinding a VM Using IO from a Datastore
I frequently become aware of high IO on a specific datastore in our Environment, I would like to know if anyone has an easy way in Vcops to tell which VM on that datastore is consuming the most...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Script Error Vsphere Client
Hi guys, I installed the VCOPS on VCENTER , whole the process worked very well without errors. When try open vCenter Operations Manager from Vsphere Client show the message script error. That's...
View ArticleNew to Vcop
Hi Guys I am new to vcop I gone tho the vedeos for the trng, this looks so simple But I would like to know below 1. Generating useful reports like VMs that are eating up lost of resouces over a month,...
View ArticleTaking screen shot of Dashboard
Hi Experts, I need to take screen shot of the dashboard, but the screen is not showing all of the contents Is there any work-around anyone know ? Thanks
View Articlemetric for resource pool configured limits
Hello, how can I get a metric that shows the total of all the RAM (or CPU) configured limits in all the resource pools in a VC? We would like to use these totals for capacity planning.
View Articlemonitor SAN space info
is it possible to use vcops 5.7 to connect to and monitor underlying space info (used or free) in Equallogic or compellent SAN's? not all our storage is presented to VC so it can be hard to figure out...
View Articlerestarting service that manages email functionality
What's the specific service that manages the email functionality in vCops. I've been using the emailFilter.xml file for creating custom alerts. Sometimes I run into a situation where I continually...
View ArticleWhat is "Guest File System(%)" meaning?
There is a metric "Guest File System(%)" under Guest File System when I select multiple VMs on Generic Scorecard widget.The metric value is not match exactly free space or used space of fs mount on a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Configuring Hard Thresholds on individual resources
Hi, Last week I performed a vC Ops presentation to one of our customers. One of their questions were if configuring hard thresholds worked on individual resources and not on an entire resource kind?For...
View ArticleHow to setup generic scoreboard for specified VMs
I have two question about "Generic Scoreboard": 1. I use tag to classify some VMs by QA, PRD or DEV role. If I select "Resource Kind", then select all VM under a tag, "metric selector" window will only...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Difference CPU Running vs CPU Active
Does anyone know what's meant with CPU Active (vs CPU Running)?
View ArticleFolder Groupings - Relation from Folders to VMs
Good afternoon, I have a quick question about folder-to-vm mappings. It appears that the mapping is not recursive (that is, if I select a folder, I only see relationships for direct descendents of that...
View ArticlevCenter Operation Manager 5.8 UI VM Root password locked out
Hello Everyone, Is there a way to unlock the root account on the UI VM of vCenter Operation Manager? I went through the password reset process but the account is still locked out so I can't log in...
View ArticlePost upgrade issues
I upgraded our 5.0 appliance to 5.6 this morning and it seemed to go fine with no errors or issues, but now the vsphere user interface will not load, only the web interface loads, and our license seems...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Host missing from VCOPS
Currently running VCOPs 5.8. All of my host are showing with the exception of one in a 3 host cluster. I have placed the server in Maintenance Mode and restarted both the host and the VCOPs app with no...
View Article