How to get metrics from hitachi storage
All, i have been able to get the SCOM and the NetApp adapters to work within vCOPs but I can not find an adapter to get the metrics for a Hitachi storage. i am hoping that my googling skills are not as...
View ArticleMove vAPP to new vCenter do you lose collected history?
If you move all hosts, virtual machines and vCOPS vAPP to a new vCenter, unregistering old vCenter and registering new vCenter in vCOPs Admin console, do you lose all of the history that was collected?
View ArticleProblem with Capacity Planning with the Operations Manager
Hi all,formerly, we used the CapacityIQ for the capacity planning.Now with the Operations Manager we get different numbers. We are trying to avoid a ESXi host memory usage of mor then 96% With the...
View ArticleRegister a vCenter in vCOPS 5.7.1 (Windows Server)
HiTill now i used the vCOPS 5.3. appliance, now i want to use the vCOPS 5.7.1 installed on a Windows Server. The installation is complete, and i can login on the website, but i can't find the "menu"...
View ArticlevCOPS 5.7.1 storage requirements
Does anyone know where to find the latest storage requirements for vCOPS? It's not in the release notes, and you now have this Balanced and Full metric collection profile so I don't know how to scale...
View ArticleHow to create VCOPs email alerts filter ?
I have tried to follow below mention KB article and VMware vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Administration...
View ArticleFull vs Balanced Profile
Is there a document or blog out there that talks about the differences between Full and Balanced Profile? Is the recomendation to always do Full unless you have preformance issues? Or Balanced? All...
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Arquitecture with two versions of vCOPs management Suite
Hi, I appreciate any help about this question. I have a client that want to upgrade from vSphere Enterprise to vSOM Enterprise (with vCenter Operations Manager Standard.. by default). This client has...
View ArticleThe oversized VM View
Hello all, I have a scenario when I clock on the number of vCPU's in the reclaimable waste Dashboard, it takes me to the Oversized VM view. I moved some VM's to another cluster but that view doesnt...
View Articlethe custom report of VCOS
Hi, AllI'm trying vCops customer report. Follow the "Custom_Reports_Tech_Note.pdf" I define one sample report about the vm MEM for the testing. But it can't work. After execute "vcops-viewsreports.sh...
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how to change the parameters for Disk in VCOPS page?
in VCOPS, I want to know, on what parameters it is checking the latency of the disk. For eg. if you look at the High latency, it is calculating with some numbers. suppose if it is 15ms latency. I want...
View ArticleHow to exclude page file disk to report ""out of space"
HiI'm very new to vCOPs and still learning, so be warned ;-) On the alerts page of my world, I get a number of VMs that report "Guest file system P:\ is out of space". In this environment, the P-drive...
View ArticleRules for oversized and undersized VMs
When I edit a policy and look at the "Oversized and undersized VMs" page, I'm surprised about the 1% value for "is more than 1% for the entire range". How do I read this? The way I read it now is: When...
View ArticleCannot connect to /vcops-custom
HiI see some examples of people with building custom dashboards and they navigate to vcops-server.domain.local/vcops-custom. When I go to that page a login is presented and after loging in I get the...
View Articleusage and effective demand
Sorry if this has been discussed I have hard time understand this Demand: Amount of a physical resource that the object might consume without any existing constraints. An object becomes constrained...
View ArticleHow to integrate with vFabric Hyperic ?
Hi, We are trying to integrate Operations Manager with vFabric Hyperic. By following the...
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 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...
View Articlevcops custom report, datatype & precision
Hi all, I'm doing a vcops 5.6 custom report with the metric cpu|usage_average.In file user_ciq_metrics_collected.xml I defined (on both VMs) <metric key="cpu|usage_average" scale="NORMAL"...
View ArticleExporting reports from vCOPs
Can I export reports from vCOPs or configure it to automatically email reports to me periodically?
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