Hello,

I can see in vROPS that one of my cluster has the following stats:

CPU cores = 252

vCPU allocated = 3181

Overload CPU = 12,62

My customer ask me to explain this value of overload CPU but I don't really know what to say about it especialy when should I consider it becomes a warning for my cluster?

This one is clearly in CPU contention during the day.

I have another one that is not in CPU contention and has the following values:

CPU cores = 48

vCPU allocated = 192

Overload CPU = 4

Is is too simple to answer that above 10% overload, it is not good? I imagine that it is more complicated than that.

Thanks for helping.

Tim

What is process in this version to rebalance adapter instances and GemFire?

Hi all,

I hope someone can help me with this. I cant find any information in the course material or online.

I want to create a view where in one row metrics are showed from 2 different subjects/object types.

Lets be more precise.

I do use the Citrix Management Pack from Blue Medora. I do have a lot of session related information as metrics for object type "Citrix VDA machine". The "Citrix VDA machine" object does have a property "related virtual machine".

Now I want to show e.g. Average logon duration for all VDA machines in first column and CPU Usage % of virtual machine in second column.

Table view:

VDA machine | VDA machines Average logon time (s) | VMs CPU Usage %

TS01.abc.de | 23,6 s | 30%

(something like in SQL. SELECT vda.name, vda.average_logon, vm.cpu_usage from vda join vm on (vda.virtualmachine_parent = vm.name))

How can I achieve this? In the wizard to create a new view, I can not find anything to link two subjects. I mean, the information needed is available in vROPS.

Or do I have to add custom metrics that are populated by another linked metric? Any chance with super metrics?

Any advice would be nice :-)

Thanks

Oliver

Hi there, I've been battling away for about a week now and though I should just reach out.

Iv'e used vrops in the distant past but now things are getting serious.

We have a number of independent sites around the place that are isolated vSphere stacks.

In each of these stacks are a number of core workloads, backups, vCenters, etc

I am looking to find a way to create a report that shows the total stats, CPU/MEM/DISK, this bit is easy.

But I am looking to exclude all the core workloads, so a basic total of the entire vsphere environment metrics mentioned minus the core workloads metrics

Most of these machines live in a few folders under vSphere hosts and clusters.

Whats the general approach here?  Should I be creating a super metric? put tags on vsphere folders and filter on this, filter a super metric that is a sum?

I had been doing quite a bit of testing and reading on this but there are so many ways to do things but as yet have not been successful.

Any help steering me in the right direction would be appreciated.

Hi all,

We have a VDI environment running on two vCenter Server.

One is running as the vCenter Server Role of Horizon environment (VC1), and the other is created by VxRail Manager(VC2) which provide the vSAN datastore to VDI virtual machines.

We create a vRealize Operation Manager to collect the information of Horizon environment and vSAN datastore recently.

The vSphere adapter could collect both two vCenter server information and horizon adapter can collect the information from connection server.

However, the status of vSAN adapter shows "Collection Failed".

I tried reboot the vRealize Operation Manager Appliance, but when I saved the vSAN adapter settings, we get the below error message.

We are sure the credential of vSAN Adapter is correct and we can see the certificate information of the vCenter server.

Does anyone know how to solve the problem?

Thanks a lot!

Version:

vRealize Operation Manager 7.5

vRealize Operation Manager for Horizon 6.6.1

vCenter Server 6.5u2 (VC1)

(VxRail)
vCenter Server Appliance U2C (VC2)ESXi 6.5 EP11

Hi all

vROPS 8.1.1 - Super Metric defined for VM's and enabled in policy.

All looks fine when looking at Metrics under Environment - All objects - <specific VM> - Metrics - All Metrics - Super Metrics

But if I want to show a Super Metric on a View the Super Metrics does not appear in the list when subject type is Virtual Machine.

Am I doing something wrong here ? I have tried the documentation but not been able to find an answer. And BTW I think that the Super Metric editor is very, very difficult to work with.

Regards

André

Hello all,

I have been researching and can't seem to find what I am looking for. I am trying to create a dashboard that will show all systems with at least one hard drive that exceeds 90% capacity. Guest File System Utilization doesn't work because it is a percentage of all attached drives. My eventual goal is a list of the VM's, a heat map showing the drives, and a Top Alerts widget. I will then link to a self service workflow (vRO) where server admins can expand the drive with low free space. First, though, I need the vROps dashboard.

Any ideas?

Hi Guys

I got a new requirement - Consolidate all region capacity report into one in email

We receive capacity reports from 6 data centers currently through vrops to storage DL. we would like to consolidate them to one sheet.

Please help.

I'm sure this is simple but I just cant seem to get it right.

I basically want to tally the allocated CPU/MEM/DISK from all virtual machines in a vSphere folder to a scoreboard widget.

I have tried all kinds of super metrics filtering and different object groups, etc, this is eluding me and I'm about to crack it

Any help steering me in the right direction would be great.

Hi Team,

I was hoping to see if anyone has recently used this tool to configure customize email alerting?

link: vRealize Operations Email Template Manager | VMware Flings

Seems like I have followed all the steps but some reason I am not receiving emails. I do not have this issue when I use vROps UI to configure alerts. Seems like there is a bug reported by other users but not sure if anyone was able to find a workaround.

https://flings.vmware.com/vrealize-operations-email-template-manager#summary

thanks,

Salman

Hi team,

Hoping to see if you can pin point the root cause of this 400 error pasted below. I am trying to create a new email template and I get 400 error.

VMware Knowledge Base

Executed step 3 from KB article by replacing IP address of the master node.

]# curl -k -X POST -i -H "X-vRealizeOps-API-use-unsupported: true" -H "Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8" -u admin -d '{
"id" : null,
"name" : "Email Template 1",
"html" : true,
"template" : "$$Subject=[Email Template 1 Subject] State:{{AlertCriticality}}, Name:{{AffectedResourceName}} \n\n New alert was generated at: {{AlertGenerateTime}} Info: {{AffectedResourceName}} {{AffectedResourceKind}}
Alert Definition Name: {{AlertDefinitionName}}
Alert Definition Description: {{AlertDefinitionDesc}}
Object Name : {{AffectedResourceName}}
Object Type : {{AffectedResourceKind}}
Alert Impact: {{AlertImpact}}
Alert State : {{AlertCriticality}}
Alert Type : {{AlertType}}
Alert Sub-Type : {{AlertSubType}}
Object Health State: {{ResourceHealthState}}
Object Risk State: {{ResourceRiskState}}
Object Efficiency State: {{ResourceEfficiencyState}}
Symptoms:
{{Anomalies}} Recommendations: {{AlertRecommendation}} vROps Server - {{vcopsServerName}} Alert details
",
"others" : [ ],
"otherAttributes" : {}
}' https://10.50.6.88/suite-api/api/notifications/email/templates
Enter host password for user 'admin':
HTTP/1.1 400 400
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 19:01:08 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Request-ID: 4hh8Gupwd06DRmHiPoyKGdqIXSDJic1s
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: 0
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Content-Security-Policy: default-src https: data: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'; child-src *
Vary: User-Agent
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: application/xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><ops:error xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:ops="http://webservice.vmware.com/vRealizeOpsMgr/1.0/" httpStatusCode="400" apiErrorCode="400"><ops:message>Invalid input format.</ops:message><ops:moreInformation><ops:info name="api-uri">/suite-api/api/notifications/email/templates</ops:info></ops:moreInformation></ops:error>

thanks,

Salman

Hi,

I want to create an alert that will fire when a VMs disk usage grows rapidly (i.e. 1tb over 24 hours).

I have created a view with this data by creating an expression over 24 hours. It calculates disk usage now minus 24hrs ago.

How would I do the same but to fire an alert when this reaches a certain threshold? I was thinking to create a super metric for disk usage 24 hours ago and alert when the difference is x greater than the current value, but I dont know how to do a time shift for the super metric, or if that is even possible.

Thanks!

Hi,

For a virtual machine in vrops one can choose "Open Virtual Machine in vSphere Web Client" however this opens the web client using flash.

Can this be changed so the html5 web client is used instead?

Regards,

Jan-Pieter

I wrote follow super metric actually I need this output but

{Cluster Compute Resource: Memory|Total Capacity (KB), depth=1}-({Cluster Compute Resource: Memory|Consumed (KB), depth=1}+{Cluster Compute Resource: Memory|Reserved Capacity (KB), depth=1})

but show follow error :

Cannot convert aggregated result to number.

How can get output from this super metric with GB instead of KB ?

I installed vRealize Operations Manager 8.1 and tried to change the SSL certificate. I worked through VMware Knowledge Base but when I select the PEM file I get an error: Operation Failed. If the error persists contact VMware support.

I checked the PEM file with openssl and everything seems ok. In the casa.log I see this:

2020-10-05T12:01:54,157 [ee0005E1] [ajp-nio-127.0.0.1-8011-exec-6] INFO support.subprocess.GeneralCommand support.subprocess.GeneralCommand:255 - Command '/usr/lib/vmware-python-3/bin/python /usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py -i /storage/db/tmp/uploaded_cert.tmp --no_describe --json --level NONE' threw exception: CommandLineExitException: key=general.failure; args=1,Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 470, in _parse

  self._parsed_object = Certificate(self.pem_data)

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 167, in __init__

  self._certificate_data = self.load_certificate(self._pem_data)

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 299, in load_certificate

  return OpenSSL.crypto.load_certificate(OpenSSL.crypto.FILETYPE_PEM, pem_data)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/OpenSSL/crypto.py", line 1825, in load_certificate

  _raise_current_error()

  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/OpenSSL/_util.py", line 54, in exception_from_error_queue

  raise exception_type(errors)

OpenSSL.crypto.Error: [('asn1 encoding routines', 'ASN1_CHECK_TLEN', 'wrong tag'), ('asn1 encoding routines', 'ASN1_ITEM_EX_D2I', 'nested asn1 error'), ('asn1 encoding routines', 'ASN1_TEMPLATE_NOEXP_D2I', 'nested asn1 error'), ('PEM routines', 'PEM_ASN1_read_bio', 'ASN1 lib')]

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 1583, in <module>

  sys.exit(main(sys.argv))

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 1531, in main

  certificate_file = CertificateFile(input_files, fix=options.get('fix'))

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 632, in __init__

  self._parse_file(source_file)

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 756, in _parse_file

  self._parse_buffer(f)

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 713, in _parse_buffer

  section = Section(description, current_section, self._fixing)

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 412, in __init__

  self._parse(fixing)

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 474, in _parse

  cert_store = CertificateStore(self.pem_data)

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 550, in __init__

  self._parse(pem_data)

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 562, in _parse

  result = run_script([get_openssl_command(), 'pkcs7', '-print_certs'], stdin=pem_data)

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 1275, in run_script

  (process_stdout, process_stderr) = process_pipe.communicate(stdin)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 964, in communicate

  stdout, stderr = self._communicate(input, endtime, timeout)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 1695, in _communicate

  input_view = memoryview(self._input)

TypeError: memoryview: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

; cause=

2020-10-05T12:01:54,158 [ee0005E1] [ajp-nio-127.0.0.1-8011-exec-6] ERROR casa.security.SecurityService casa.security.SecurityService:1395 - Unexpected error during validateCertificate script execution: Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 470, in _parse

  self._parsed_object = Certificate(self.pem_data)

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 167, in __init__

  self._certificate_data = self.load_certificate(self._pem_data)

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 299, in load_certificate

  return OpenSSL.crypto.load_certificate(OpenSSL.crypto.FILETYPE_PEM, pem_data)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/OpenSSL/crypto.py", line 1825, in load_certificate

  _raise_current_error()

  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/OpenSSL/_util.py", line 54, in exception_from_error_queue

  raise exception_type(errors)

OpenSSL.crypto.Error: [('asn1 encoding routines', 'ASN1_CHECK_TLEN', 'wrong tag'), ('asn1 encoding routines', 'ASN1_ITEM_EX_D2I', 'nested asn1 error'), ('asn1 encoding routines', 'ASN1_TEMPLATE_NOEXP_D2I', 'nested asn1 error'), ('PEM routines', 'PEM_ASN1_read_bio', 'ASN1 lib')]

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 1583, in <module>

  sys.exit(main(sys.argv))

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 1531, in main

  certificate_file = CertificateFile(input_files, fix=options.get('fix'))

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 632, in __init__

  self._parse_file(source_file)

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 756, in _parse_file

  self._parse_buffer(f)

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 713, in _parse_buffer

  section = Section(description, current_section, self._fixing)

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 412, in __init__

  self._parse(fixing)

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 474, in _parse

  cert_store = CertificateStore(self.pem_data)

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 550, in __init__

  self._parse(pem_data)

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 562, in _parse

  result = run_script([get_openssl_command(), 'pkcs7', '-print_certs'], stdin=pem_data)

  File "/usr/lib/vmware-casa/bin/vropsCertificateTool.py", line 1275, in run_script

  (process_stdout, process_stderr) = process_pipe.communicate(stdin)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 964, in communicate

  stdout, stderr = self._communicate(input, endtime, timeout)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 1695, in _communicate

  input_view = memoryview(self._input)

TypeError: memoryview: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

I think the file is uploaded and checked but then something goes wrong. I already checked the order of the certificates in the PEM file (Certificate, Private Key, CA Certificate).

what version do i need to install vrealize operations manager that can monitor ESXi 5.5 / 6.5 and vcenter 5.5 /6.5?

Hi everyone!

I am working with a specific metric in vROPS 7.5: "Memory|Current Overcommit Ratio" at cluster level object. I think this metric should show me the relation between the physical memory available in the cluster vs the virtual memory allocated by the virtual machines on it right?

My cluster has 9 nodes with 1.5TB of RAM each one, and admission control is configured to tolerate 1 host failure.

This is my cluster info:

If I sum all VMs assigned memory the total is 9441 GB. So how could be possible this overcommit ratio: 0.946

I have these powered off VMS:

(all of them sum 154 GB of memory from a total of 9441 GB)

And here the information that I think is wrong:

That more than 13,6 GB is being used for calculating the overcommit ration I think. But I can't understand the calculation for it, because if I have 154 GB of powered off VMS allocated memory only, how can be so much difference, from 9 GB approx to 13,6 GB of allocated memory adding the powered off?

Thanks!

Hi all,

I have been asked if I can save the metrics about application usage in vROPs for Horizon.

However I have a doubt as they have a combination of RDSH published apps and also locally installed (in the template/parent VM) apps.

I believe that vROPs for Horizon will only monitor app usage (logon time, session duration etc) when the apps are RDSH or AppVolumes published.

That is, if an app is installed directly on a template machine, vROPs for Horizon will not know when that app is opened, closed etc.

The problem here (that I have been told) is that some particular apps require installation directly on the template machines i.e. they cannot be published by RDSH or AppVol.

Can anyone confirm if what I understand is correct or give me a heads-up on where I can find more info please?

When I get access to the environment I will try to see if those apps really can only be installed that way or not but for now I just want to confirm if I understand correctly above so I am ready.

Thanks in advance

Mark

Hi,

I am running vRops 8.1 integrated with vRa 8.1. Efter the integration with vRA " business Intent " grey out. Is there any way to keep business Intent while vRops integration with vRA ?

Hi,

How do we check which edition of VRO instances that has been installed? The version is 7.0 but need to verify whether it is Standard, Advanced or Enterprise. Can it be done via the GUI itself?

Rgds

Nazri