FAQs

 

What are the requirements to monitor VMware ESX/ESXi servers?

How to add a VMware ESX/ESXi server to OpManager?

What will happen to already discovered VMs?

Do I need to add my VMotion'ed VMs again?

No need. OpManager automatically captures the event and maps them to the appropriate Host. Can I power on / power off my VMs with OpManager?

As of now these options are not available. However, will be available in the subsequent releases. If you wish any other feature or configuration that you like to do remotely, please write to us at feature-request@opmanager.com

How to discover the recently added HBA?

 

Rediscovering the Host will discover the recently added HBAs, Network Adapters and VMs. Can I monitor my Virtual Center CPU / Memory?

 

Sure. Virtual Center is a Windows device,you can monitor it as you monitor any other Windows device. How to compare VMs' performance in a Host? You can generate reports to compare the VMs' performance. In the reports page, there is an option to view reports per VM. How to delete a Host? Deleting a Host will delete only the Host and all its VMs will be moved under Servers map view. All the wmi/snmp statistics collected will be preserved for these servers. To delete the host 1. Go the snapshot page of the Host that you want to delete 2. In the snapshot page click on Actions tab and select Delete. 3. Click yes on the confirmation pop-up. The Host has been successfully deleted. To delete the VMs, you need to delete one by one. 10.How to monitor Host and VM health trends? Health Trends play a crucial role during capacity planning. OpManager provides the health metrics of the Host in a graphical form, which helps you track of the health trend. It provides options to view the trend for the last week and last 30 days.< To view the health trend of a Host/VM 1. Go to the snapshot page. 2. Scroll down to Host Health Section. Here you can find the CPU, Memory, Disk I/O & Network utilization trends. 3. Click on the 7 or 30 links available on the top corner of the graphs to view the last 7 or 30 days trend respectively. You can also make use of the Reports option available. It out-of-the-box provides 70+ reports which provide a detailed information on the Hosts and VMs. You can generate reports for desired periods and export to PDF or XLS format. To view the Health trend reports 1. Click on Reports tab 2. Click on Virtual Devices tab on the left side and click on Host CPU Reports. This opens the CPU utilization report of the Hosts. 3. By default it shows the CPU usage trend for the last 24 hours for the recently included Host. If required you can change the period. Click on the Edit button to select the period. 4. You can select the particular CPU report that you want to view. Use on the Select Report dropdown menu to select the required report.
5. Filter the Host whose CPU reports you want to view from the For Host dropdown menu. 6. Select the per VM check box if you want to view the VM specific CPU reports.
Similarly you can view the health trend of the VMs.
11. How to identify the worst performing Hosts and VMs?
OpManager provides the performance details of the performing Hosts & VMs in real-time.
1. Click on the Top Hosts tab available on the Virtual Devices Dashboard.
2. Here you can find the Top 10 worst performing Hosts.
3. Similarly click on the Top VMs tab to view the top 10 worst performing VMs.

12. How am I notified when a VM or a Host performance takes a Hit?
OpManager notifies you when any general alarms or performance threshold alarms are raised. Follow the similar process used to associate a notification profile but select the "When any Virtual Device has problem" check box and select the the required alarms to be notified. Then associate it to the VMs.

All the notification profiles associated to a host is listed in its snapshot page under the Inventory Details section. You can add or remove any notification profile from there.

13. How is VMware Monitor licensed?
To monitor VMware ESX/ESXi servers with OpManager you need to buy the VMware Monitor add-on. With this you can monitor any number of Hosts and VMs.

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OpManager monitors your VMware servers for availability and performance using native APIs. The advantage of using native APIs is that it offers ease of use, you need not install any agent on your servers, as well as in-depth monitoring capabilities to troubleshoot your Virtual Infrastructure.

Some of the highlights of monitoring VMware Servers with OpManager,

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