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Availability report?

Hi All

Does anyone know if its possible to do availability reporting at all?

We are looking to graph and report on availability of our ESX farm, matching to a defined SLA, so probably about 99.6% or something.

Has anyone done this?

Cheers

Stew

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AlbertWT
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yes please, if that is available, I also would like to know that if it is possible.

Kind Regards,

AWT

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Hello,

Do you looking for report that looks like the one generated from this command?

PS> $logItem = Get-VMHost $logItem.Entries

Vitali

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AlbertWT
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Thanks Vitali,

Here's what I've got:

1/09/2010 12:19:56 PM Get-Log DE7D5FC5-2364-4641-B2CE-4B09291A3B75 Log with key 'vmksummary' not found.

At :line:2 char:32

+ $logItem = Get-VMHost | Get-Log <<<< -Key vmksummary

1/09/2010 12:19:56 PM Get-Log DE7D5FC5-2364-4641-B2CE-4B09291A3B75 Log with key 'vmksummary' not found.

At :line:2 char:32

+ $logItem = Get-VMHost | Get-Log <<<< -Key vmksummary

1/09/2010 12:19:57 PM Get-Log DE7D5FC5-2364-4641-B2CE-4B09291A3B75 Log with key 'vmksummary' not found.

At :line:2 char:32

+ $logItem = Get-VMHost | Get-Log <<<< -Key vmksummary

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admin
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Hi,

Do you use ESXi servers? It appears that vmksummary log is not supported on ESXi.

Vitali

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AlbertWT
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Ah yes, I'm using ESXi not the ESX.

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admin
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Hi again,

Below you can see how the vmksummary log looks on ESX. Is this the report that you are looking for?

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Availability Report for

Nov 4, 2009 - Sep 1, 2010

Availability: 97.473%

Total time: 300 days, 15 hours

Uptime: 293 days,

Downtime: 7 days, 14 hours

Note: Downtime is any time the system isn't capable of running

Virtual Machines. This includes reboots, crashes, configuration and running linux

Downtime Analysis:

2.5% (7 days, 14 hours) downtime caused by:

98.9% (7 days, 12 hours) scheduled downtime

1.1% (1.9 hours) unscheduled downtime

Reasons for scheduled downtime:

99.8% server halted (4 instances)

0.1% server rebooting (3 instances)

0.0% server booting (12 instances)

Reasons for unscheduled downtime:

100.0% unknown (powerfail / reset?) (4 instances)

Stats:

Current uptime: 44 days, 9 hours

Longest uptime: 60 days, 4 hours

Shortest uptime: 36 seconds

Average uptime: 24 days, 10 hours

Longest downtime: 2 days, 14 hours

Shortest downtime: 11 seconds

Average downtime: 7.9 hours

Maximum VMs Sampled: 11

Average VMs Sampled: 6.72

Server Information: Number of CPUs: 4 logical

4 cores

1 packages, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5345 @ 2.33GHz

Installed Memory: 8383424 kB

Current Build: 193498

Report generated Wed Sep 1 04:02:04 EEST 2010

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AlbertWT
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Hi Again too,

Yes that is what I'd like to generate for all of my ESXi servers, I wonder if that is possible or not ?

Thanks

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Hi again,

It appears that currently it is not possible to generate this report on ESXi.

I'm not sure isn't it possible to extract the needed information from the other logs available in ESXi hosts.

Vitali

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AlbertWT
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Yes, you could be right man, thanks anyway for your efforts in explaining and giving some examples Vitali.

Cheers,

AWT

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