Re: Rules for oversized and undersized VMs
Well, that is what those 7.2hrs are what I talked about :-) But how I read this: If a VM is running at 95% CPU for 28 days, but is below 30% CPU for 2 days then vCOPs would report it as oversized. (The...
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View Article"Best Practice" / Examples for the Configuration
Hello all,has someone a "Best Practice" document (or examples) for the configuration of these settingsConfigure capacity an timeConfigure state-related thresholdsConfigure forecast and trendsManage...
View ArticleRe: Rules for oversized and undersized VMs
Hi Gabrie, I was trying to get an answer as to why the default for most of the policy templates is 1% - but really you should set that to whatever makes sense for your environment. For example, you...
View ArticleRe: "Best Practice" / Examples for the Configuration
Hello Johannes, If you look through the various policy templates provided with 5.7 you will find many examples for various use cases that adjust each of the areas (except for Manage Display Settings)...
View ArticleHow to see which VM consumed datastore space
Hi Community, We had a datastore fill. We've been searching for a view in vCOPS that will show the VMs' space utilization in this datastore and show, hopefully, which VM grew and consumed all the...
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Re: Rules for oversized and undersized VMs
worth mentioning that 5.7.x actually has some 10+ policies with predefined settings out of the box.some of those have different settings for oversized VMs.but in general you're free to adjust the...
View ArticleRe: How to see which VM consumed datastore space
something important here: in vcops you will only see the VMs which belong the VC being monitored.If that's a shared storage, and some other VCs or services are using it as well, you can't see the...
View ArticleRe: Rules for oversized and undersized VMs
Thank you for all replies. Makes me understand a little better. It just felt wrong to move a pre-defined value from 1% to very high. Usually VMware's default in other products are very well thought of...
View ArticleHow to get IOPs report from vCOPs??
I've installed the trial and am still quite new to vCOPs and I do know I must get IOPs reports, per host and per VM to the best of my ability.Can vCOPs do this, and how?? Where should I look in the...
View ArticleExporting reports from vCOPs
Can I export reports from vCOPs or configure it to automatically email reports to me periodically?
View ArticleRe: vcops custom report, datatype & precision
Hi all, can you send me, please, some XML file tht I can import as custom reports? Thanks!!! Matrix
View ArticleRe: Exporting reports from vCOPs
Yes you can. You can save reports as PDF or CSV. You can also create a schedule and send the reports as attachment to multiple e-mail addresses. You'll need to setup SMTP though in the admin interface....
View ArticleRe: How to get IOPs report from vCOPs??
Check out the "Disk I/O Reads and Writes" section in the "Waste, Stress, and Capacity Report" on VM entity level. Or check the "Resources" section in the "Virtual Machine Capacity Overview Report"....
View ArticleDocumentation for Reduced and Full Metric Sets
I'm looking at ripping out vCops for View 1.0 and freshly installing 1.5. One of the options is to set the metrics profile to either Full or Reduced. Is there documentation on what is entailed in...
View ArticleRe: Documentation for Reduced and Full Metric Sets
Nick, see if this thread answers your question? Full vs Balanced Profile
View ArticleRe: Documentation for Reduced and Full Metric Sets
Thanks, John! Ideally VMware would provide full documentation for the product. That hasn't happened in the 7 years I've used it, however. I appreciate you writing the blog post and shedding some light...
View ArticleLooking for a VM Disk space report
Hi folks, My company has been using Foglight to monitor VMware related events and with the new licensing we now own vcops. I have installed it and have been looking into it quite a bit but I cannot for...
View ArticleEvaluating vCOPS 5.7.1 - did they add a way to exclude specific datastores?
Hi, i tried vCOPS in the past and i know this wasn't possible. I just started a trial now but i still want to exlude all local datastores and a couple more which come from a filer that is always 99%...
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