Re: vCenter Privileges
The issue appears to be that we are using the same service account for the Registration user and the Collector user. When I removed Administrator access from this service account, the license was no...
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Dashboards not displaying data after 5.8 Upgrade
Has anyone had any issues with custom dashboards not displaying data correctly after upgrading to 5.8? To give some more background I had IE, Chrome, and Firefox on my VDI all showing dashboards...
View ArticleRe: vCenter Privileges
So I checked back and the license went back to Foundation. Apparently the Registration user requires more permissions than Global: Health and Storage Views: View. Since VCOPS is only collecting data...
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Global: Health and Storage Views: View is just for collection.There are different privileges required for the registration account, as vC Ops regularly checks in to vCenter to reflect the # Powered on...
View ArticleReviewing Pass Poor Health on Resource
Is there a way to see why the health of a resource was down during the night but currently is back up? I'd rather not go through every single metric.
View ArticleRequirements for restoring vCOps
When restoring the vCOps vApp from backup, if you restore only one VM, the analytics VM or the UI VM, then the two VMs could be out of sync. For example, say you lose the UI VM and need to restore...
View ArticleRe: vCOPS Distribution Buckets and Data Points?
I would start by saying that when your intervals are set to Month or greater, your daily and weekly tables are going to be averaged to maintain a "typical" intervals for the weekly change profile. In...
View ArticleRe: Appropriate values for Determining Oversized VMs based on Percent Usage
When you raise the % to a higher value from the default 30%, you will get a more conservative recommendation, as you will get recommendations based on resources that breach that utilization level 'more...
View ArticleRe: Dashboards not displaying data after 5.8 Upgrade
I'd be leaning towards a browser caching issue. Since you already tried another VDI machine and it worked, have you tried another 'user account' on your offending VDI machine? It may just be something...
View ArticleRe: Reviewing Pass Poor Health on Resource
Alerts will tip you in the direction of the cause and time. Looking at the events/timeline of change events will also give you an indication of any changes at the virt infrastructure level or other...
View ArticleSuggested memory density dashboard does not reflect vSphere host memory pressure
When I click on my host I can see that it granted 231GB of it 256GB memory. As I get closer to the physical memory, the memory over commit techniques will be activated. However, if I look at the...
View ArticleRe: Reviewing Pass Poor Health on Resource
Is it possible to review Alerts that aren't active? I can't figure it out if there is, but probably missing something obvious.
View ArticleGeo Tags - Google Maps API v3 and vCOps 5.8
I'm trying to setup an executive dashboard in Ops. I've acquired a key for the Google Maps API v3 and entered it in. I've created a tag and am having an issue associating the tag with a location....
View ArticleRe: Appropriate values for Determining Oversized VMs based on Percent Usage
OK thanks - does anyone else have recommendations on where you have found to be the "sweet spot" on this setting, that is neither too conservative nor too aggressive?
View ArticleRe: Reviewing Pass Poor Health on Resource
you leverage the "Events" tab in vSphere UI for that-Select the period of interest, then choose to view related events for self and parent/child/peer objects. e.g. play with the filters.
View ArticleRe: Requirements for restoring vCOps
I'd say it is to always backup/restore both VMs.There're 3 different DBs in total in vcops, 2 on one VM and 1 on the other, so most likely you will have issues. It really depends on your environment,...
View ArticleRe: Geo Tags - Google Maps API v3 and vCOps 5.8
some related threads: GEO Location TaggingGeo location not working
View ArticleRe: Appropriate values for Determining Oversized VMs based on Percent Usage
well, that really depends on the actual environment & usage patterns
View ArticleRe: Geo Tags - Google Maps API v3 and vCOps 5.8
v3 of the map API is not supported. I understand that the product team is aware and working on a solution.
View ArticleRe: Dashboards not displaying data after 5.8 Upgrade
maybe you have a common proxy server?
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