Is it possible to export policies?
Is there any way of exporting the custom policies that you create? I presume these are all stored in the database and therefore would be backed up along with everything else when backing up the VMs,...
View ArticleHow do I recreate a missing vCOps vApp?
Hi. I have two customers that somehow have deleted their vCOps vApps from vCenter Server. I assume this is not supported, and I suspect that this will lead to some kind of problems with getting the IP...
View ArticleHow to look at various time perf time periods?
Just downloaded vCops for an eval and have it up and running. I am running SQL Server 2008 R2 on a VM.I want to monitor the RAM and CPU usage for various time periods when the DB is in use. Is there...
View ArticlevCenter Ops for Oracle EM12c, 30 Minute Webcast
Next in our series, this 30-minute webcast will show how to leverage vCenter Operations Manager EE with the Management Pack for Oracle Enterprise Manager to navigate through the layers of the ‘Oracle...
View ArticleIP Addresses Swapped
I deployed the Operations Manager vApp and got everything working, but somehow, the ip addresses of the 2 virtual machines are swapped, so the link in vCenter takes me to the ip address of the...
View ArticlevCOps licensing
I am using a temporary vCOps license. When that license expires, do I actually stop collecting data in the enviornment or just have the watermarks start appearing on my reports? Are there any other...
View ArticleMultiple VCenters for Single VCops???
My client is doing an evaluation of VCops, and he wants to monitor two Virtual Centers. He has one VCenter configured, and it's working properly, but we can't figure out exactly how to hook into a...
View ArticlevCOPS v5.8 default password
Hello everybody, I need your help! I'm trying to configure a vCOPS 5.8 but as soon I try to login the first time, my access is denied due to incorrect password.I've already tryed root/vmware...
View ArticleSupermetric not working
Hi All, I am trying to create a supermetric for "Cluster Total CPU Demand - Ghz) I go in and I select Cluster Compute Resource, under adapter Kinds I select Demand(Mhz) My formula is sum(Cluster...
View Article"Collector User (optional)" and minimun permission on vcenter
I'm just trying to setup a vcops and I'm a little bit confuse about the vcenter permission requirements.First, the wizard asks me an OPTIONAL information about hosting vCenter Server (vcenter that...
View ArticleMetrics and Reports Confusion
I am kinda confused when it comes to interpreting some of the reports and correlating them to metrics.In the trend report it looks like on March 16th the VM CPU Effective demand jumped way up close to...
View ArticleNeed help with a formula to do something.
Hey guys, So I have created a dashboard with Cluster Resource, Cluster Storage and Cluster CPU. The interactions are set when I selected a Cluster Resource, say DMZ01 it populates the data for each...
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Linux VM and "VM Memory Effective Demand" time remaining 0 days
Im running VCOP 5.8.1.0 I have a linux vm that VCOPS report having 0 days of "Memory Effective Demand" HEre is the memory information from whithin the VM free total used free...
View ArticleSetting up LDAP authentication
I'm adding an LDAP host for authentication in the custom UI.Some questions on the "Manage LDAP Host" screen used to pull info from active directory:My active directory domain is:bigcorp.com and the...
View ArticleCluster Memory Metrics
I'm looking at the metrics available for the "Compute Cluster Resource" Resource Kind. I know that each of my physical servers in the cluster has 128GB of memory installed in it. I want to know the...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Objects under Health Badges are showing unknown.
Hi All, Fairly new to vCOPs, running 5.8 build 1537842 licensed as Advanced . I've been running it for about a month now and learning what I can in some spare time. I have noticed that any of my...
View ArticleDefault Dashboards missing after side-by-side upgrade from 5.0.3 to 5.8.1
I have just completed an upgrade of vcenter operations manager from 5.0.3 to 5.8.1 using the side by side method. On first look the upgrade seemed fine - all historical data is present and new data is...
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Assigning vSphere with Operations Management licenses to a host
Hi All, How in the world do I allocate VMware vSphere with Operations Management 5.5 Standard licenses to a host? The implementation was green field so we bought the acceleration kit for vCenter server...
View ArticlePull VMs from datastores
I was hoping to pull VMs off a group of specific datastores.. just a list of VMs, the CPU, memory and disk sizes.. So far I've not been able to figure a way out.. I'm running 5.7.2 Any help is greatly...
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Upgrade from 5.8.0 to 5.8.1 failed!
Hello I tried to upgrade vC Ops 5.8.0 to 5.8.1 in the admin web console. Everything went well. Upgrade process stucked with the status window "upgrade in progress - please wait". I was waiting for 4...
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