Re: Duplicate Resource Kinds?
I believe he wasn't referring to resources, he was referring to resource kinds. Duplicate resource kind "names" are not a problem since it's ID driven, you just need to adjust the resource kind...
View ArticleRe: Problem with Capacity Planning with the Operations Manager
Use the "usable capacity" for planning, not "physical capacity" in 3a. Under section 3b, then set the buffers for memory. In your case you'd leave 4% buffer (why 4?!). Keep in mind the impact of...
View ArticleRe: Setting up dashboards for multiple clusters
I'd suggest using sparkline widgets with res interaction files. Setup the interaction to send "selected resources" to the sparkine widgets. Each sparkline widget would be configured to use the...
View ArticleRe: Metrics Documentation
Use this doc for a description of vCenter adapter metrics: ftp://ftp.integrien.com/VCOPS-VMware_Product_Adapters/VMware-vCenter/vCenter-Adapter-Install-and-Config-Guide.pdf Look to the bottom of the...
View ArticleRe: Evaluating vCOPS 5.7.1 - did they add a way to exclude specific datastores?
The more dynamic method is to create a dynamic group that populates datastores via a naming convention for local datastores. Then bind this "ignore these objects" policy to this group. To manually...
View ArticleRe: Documentation for Reduced and Full Metric Sets
The metrics belonging to the balanced metric profile (aka default attribute package) are published here:...
View ArticleRe: How to integrate with vFabric Hyperic ?
The legacy Hyperic adapter pulls from the DB directly and can be problematic in larger environments in addition to having challenges with building relationships. Do yourself a favor and upgrade to the...
View ArticleRe: VM CPU and or Memory Stress Alerts
You need to adjusted the stress calculations on your configuration policy. You should also examine the oversized VMs policy. Set the stress calculation to be appropriate given the workload type. If it...
View ArticleRe: ESXi Hardware Monitoring with VCOPS
If the health service in vCenter can detect the hardware failure, it'll be collected by and reflected as a "Fault" in vCOps. Just like if a NIC died and reported to vCenter as down/failed.
View ArticleRe: 571 vcops and 57 Hyperic
So you wish to use MOM as a destination for vCOps alerts? The vCOps integrates pretty well with Hyperic using the solution pack. The legacy adapter had it's challenges, but now with the solution pack...
View ArticleRe: How does vC OPs use hyperthreading for capacity and what-if scenarios
Look at the CPU Capacity MHZ for the host in vCOps. Just because configuration strings indicate 12 x 2.6, doesn't mean that's how the capacity is reflected in vCOps.
View ArticleRe: Duplicate Resource Kinds?
This has now been resolved. It appears there were leftover entries for the old Hyperic Adapter in the database. I followed the steps in this KB article: VMware KB: Removing custom adapter kinds from...
View ArticleRe: How to integrate with vFabric Hyperic ?
One suggestion if you plan to use the new vCenter Operations Solution Pack for Hyperic and have mutiple vCenters to connect, make sure your vCenters do not contain VMs with duplicate MAC addresses....
View ArticleRe: Documentation for Reduced and Full Metric Sets
Thanks Mark. Glad they finally put a KB article up.
View ArticleRe: vCops .PAK file upload fails
Admin log only shows me logging on and off. Nothing else. Also tried 2 different browsers.
View ArticleRe: vCops .PAK file upload fails
If admin.log is clean then it should be some sort of client side error. So my next suggestion is:Use Chrome browser and hit Ctrl + Shift+J to open the debug console. Go to the Console tab and redo your...
View ArticleRe: vCops .PAK file upload fails
Upgrading to 5.7.1 was fine. The error is happening when attempting to upload a .pak file for an EMC adapter. But I will try the Chrome debug procedure you mentioned.
View ArticleVCOPS Folder Resource Kind
Hi all! I would like tobuild adashboard, select avCenter, for example, show mea list of allthe folders. From the varioustests done, no one hasbroughtgood resultsbecause theResourceKind"folder"does not...
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Re: vCops .PAK file upload fails
I've attached a screenshot of the Chrome debug console. This is what came up as soon as the file upload failed.
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