Hi
I want to create a Super Metric to tell me how many hosts in a cluster are in Maintenance mode. Does anyone know how to do this.
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VRops 6.4 Super Metric Hosts in mantenance mode
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Dashboard for VM's with snapshots on vRops 6.4
Hi
I wonder if anyone can help
I am having issues with trying to create a list of VM's with snapshots on a dashboard I am using the Top N widget to get this data but having issues getting the data displayed
The tag is virtual machines but I am having issues trying to find the snapshot metric
Can anyone help
Thanks in advance
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Re: VRops 6.4 Super Metric Hosts in mantenance mode
I dont know of a way to show this per cluster in a list view as the attribute=runtime|maintenanceState is a property and not a metric and as such the count function with the where condition wont work because the input is text *inMaintenance) and tghe SM needs a numeric value
The way i do it is to create a custom group that will have a membership rule for all hosts in maintenance mode. then create a super metric count(${adaptertype=VMWARE, objecttype=HostSystem, attribute=badge|health, depth=1}) This will count the number of hosts in the group (the number of health badges regardless of the health to be exact.
The only problem is that this will show all the hosts in the environment. The only way to have it per cluster is to create a separate group per cluster (create a new Group type and add all the cluster groups under that type) and use the membership rules to limit the members to a cluster. Then when creating your object list use the object type/ "your group type name" and the super metric and it will show you all the clusters and the number of hosts in maintenance mode.
In the below i use it to show the number VMs in a vlan. Each vlan is a custom group that uses the vlan is equal to the vlan id and then i use the count SM to count the health badges of the VMs in the group (will work the same for hosts using the above SM)
The group type
The widget
Widget config with the SM to the right and object type expanded to the left
This is the group type further down the object type list above
I dont know of any other way to show this.
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Re: Dashboard for VM's with snapshots on vRops 6.4
f you dont have the below listed against a VM they you may need to enable the metric in you policy
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Re: Can vRealize be used to get insight into NSX Load Balancer?
I dont know the metric it gives you as i only tested this and NSX in our lab but there is a management pack for NSX that is free
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Re: Free vROps Management Packs
Yea this is a bit messy but to be fair to vmware it is more the problem with the separate vendors. As a rule of thumb i use
VMware own MP = Free
Blue Medora = They all cost money but they can tie into vmwares ELA
Vendors = pot luck
The problem with vendors is most are free but some require the vendors paid for management product to collect the data from for example the Brocade management pack is free but you need the Brocade Network Analyser to collect the data from which costs money. Same with HDS
I would recommend reading the pre req in the install guide on the ones you are interested in to see if they need to collect the data from an intermediary management product or connect directly to the devices you are looking to collect from
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Re: Help Understanding Resource Pool Memory Capacity
Here's a screenshot of child3 to help illustrate what I am talking about. Notice the 458GB memory resource limit configured in the right pane, but vRO shows there is no room left to grow because memory only has 159GB configured and it needs more. Does anyone know why this is happening?
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Re: Dashboard for VM's with snapshots on vRops 6.4
It is there but I found how to do it by using a different widget Thanks for taking the time to reply
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Re: Can vRealize be used to get insight into NSX Load Balancer?
The vROPS Management Pack for NSX 3.5 does have some additional metrics for the NSX Load Balancer service but it is some what limited to traffic and session metrics.
For a full list of all metrics, take a look it this document: https://c368768.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/product_files/29492/original/vRealize_Operations_Management_Pack_for_NSX_for_vSphere…
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Exporting what dvportgroup a VM is attached to
Does anyone know a way of exporting a report that includes the dvportgroup a VM is attached to I had a look at the properties of a VM one could export but could not see dvportgroup listed
Thanks in advance
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Deploy vROps on VXLAN
Hi All,
I have an environment with 20 ESXi host vSphere6.0 , with NSX and vSAN. vCenter , PSC , NSX Manager is running on the VLAN based network and Customer VMs are running on the VXLAN, now i am planning to deploy vROPS and Customer is saying that Deploy the vROPS on VXLAN network and i am suggesting the it should be near to other management componets , so lets keep into VLAN backed network which has vcenter and other management vms.
Looking forward for suggestion on this ?should it be on VLAN or VXLAN ?
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datastore utilization and iops report
how do I get a datastore and ops report on my datastores in vrops?
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Re: Deploy vROps on VXLAN
I haven't try that, technically running on VXLAN should work but I would put vROps on the Management VLAN closer to vCenter, NSX Manager, ESXi Management, and other management components
There could be unnecessary hair-pinning traffic flow if you put vROps on VXLAN
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Re: Deploy vROps on VXLAN
I wouldn't say either VLAN or VXLAN is right or wrong but there is no reason why it can't be installed on VXLAN to give the same security benefits through micro segmentation as are extended to customer workloads. In fact this is the way the management applications are architected in the VMware Validated Design for SDDC. For the likes of vCenter and NSX they need to be VLAN backed but everything else is up for debate :-)
VVD link if you fancy some bed time reading. Page 120 onwards if you want a short cut ;-)
https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware-validated-design-30-sddc-reference-architecture.pdf
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Re: Deploy vROps on VXLAN
Agree with John and that VVD is a good reference
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Monitor ESXi Services with vROPS
Good morning,
I have been asked if it is possible to monitor ESXI services with vROPS. We are currently running 6.4. I have searched all of the alerts but I don't see any that pertain to services.
I am specifically looking to monitor the following services:
- hostd
- vpxa
- vpxd
Can this be done via vrops?
Thanks in advance
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vROps Permissions
How do you assign permissions in the product UI without assigning them in the Admin UI?
Thanks
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Re: vROps Permissions
I am not sure I understand your question. User access control is configured from the product UI. See for an example the product documentation on how to do this. VMware Documentation Library
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Re: vROps Permissions
when I create a role, can I assign permissions to that role such that attempts to log in to the admin ui fail but attempts to log in to the product ui succeed?
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what is the best management solutions for monitoring storage like isilon, xtremio and Hitachi
Hi Everyone,
Can I get the links for management solutions for Isilon and xtremio to monitor them from vRops manager.
Thank you,
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