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virtualg_uk · ‎02-21-2023

If the controller is not showing up in ESXi, then you may need to install a driver / vib: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.esxi.upgrade.doc/GUID-1E773360-CB1C-4BC2-B2A4-B73A...

If the controller is not showing up in ESXi, then you may need to install a driver / vib: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.esxi.upgrade.doc/GUID-1E773360-CB1C-4BC2-B2A4-B73AB5706FAF.html

virtualg_uk · ‎02-21-2023

Hi VMbkota I am not aware of anything built in to do this, however, if you're building your VMs via a workflow tool / PowerShell / vRA etc you might be able to add an attribute to the VM and report...

Hi VMbkota I am not aware of anything built in to do this, however, if you're building your VMs via a workflow tool / PowerShell / vRA etc you might be able to add an attribute to the VM and report on this in vROps.

virtualg_uk · ‎02-23-2022

One thought: Have you checked the policy to ensure the required metrics are enabled?

virtualg_uk · ‎03-27-2020

Enterprise does include custom dashboard creation. Please see the link provided above which shows the difference between Standard, Advanced and Enterprise. Review the entry for "Customizable ...

Enterprise does include custom dashboard creation. Please see the link provided above which shows the difference between Standard, Advanced and Enterprise. Review the entry for "Customizable Dashboards, Reports and Views" in the table to see that Enterprise does include this feature.

virtualg_uk · ‎03-17-2020

Hi! It might be worth looking in your policy to see if you can enable this metric / property. Personally I have not seen it before but certainly take a look.

virtualg_uk · ‎03-02-2020

Hi Dana, Welcome to the vRealize Operations Manager forum! Can I ask which license you have for vROps? Report creation is only available in Advanced and Enterprise versions: https://blogs.v...

Hi Dana, Welcome to the vRealize Operations Manager forum! Can I ask which license you have for vROps? Report creation is only available in Advanced and Enterprise versions: https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2016/12/vrops-editions-series-overview.html vROps Editions: Series Overview - VMware Cloud Management Kind regards, Graham

virtualg_uk · ‎12-02-2019

Correct, it's not possible to connect ESXi to vROps unless it's managed by vCenter (In which case, you connect vCenter to vROPs)

virtualg_uk · ‎12-02-2019

Correct, you cannot customize policies at the tenant level. This is because you cannot assign RBAC roles at the policy level. There is a great guide on setting up multi-tenancy vROps by Yves S...

Correct, you cannot customize policies at the tenant level. This is because you cannot assign RBAC roles at the policy level. There is a great guide on setting up multi-tenancy vROps by Yves Sandfort here: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vcat/vmware-multitenant-vrealize-operations-as-a-servi…

virtualg_uk · ‎06-01-2019

Hello, Would you be able to give us more information so that we can help further?

virtualg_uk · ‎05-11-2019

Multiple disk groups is definitely a good idea for a variety of reasons. To add another disk group, it's simple enough, see the official guide here: Create a Disk Group on a vSAN Host Sele...

Multiple disk groups is definitely a good idea for a variety of reasons. To add another disk group, it's simple enough, see the official guide here: Create a Disk Group on a vSAN Host Selecting the cluster > Configure > Disk Management will show you current disk groups setup in vSAN

virtualg_uk · ‎04-20-2019

Thanks for following up, you were spot on there. I initiated the upgrade of the VC 6.7U2 but it turns out that it hadn't actually completed! Got it all sorted once that was done. Thanks!

virtualg_uk · ‎04-19-2019

Thanks - The command does complete successfully and I've completed it on all disk groups on all hosts and I even added the hosts to the vSAN cluster with esxcli vsan cluster join Now I ha...

Thanks - The command does complete successfully and I've completed it on all disk groups on all hosts and I even added the hosts to the vSAN cluster with esxcli vsan cluster join Now I have a vSAN datastore which I can use but the vSphere Client thinks vSAN is turned off (select cluster > Configure: Shows "vSAN is Turned off") So now I'm unable to configure vSAN from the UI. This is just a lab so I'm happy to start again and see what's causing this. Any ideas?

virtualg_uk · ‎04-19-2019

I have a blog article here to explain how to do this in more detail: vRealize Operations – vROps – Policies. What, Why, How? – VirtualG.uk

virtualg_uk · ‎04-13-2019

I have 3 ESXi 6.7U2 hosts running within Workstation 15 Pro. For each host, I have a SCSI 10GB disk for cache and 2x NVMe 50GB disks for capacity (also tried SCSI) The physical disk I am prov...

I have 3 ESXi 6.7U2 hosts running within Workstation 15 Pro. For each host, I have a SCSI 10GB disk for cache and 2x NVMe 50GB disks for capacity (also tried SCSI) The physical disk I am provisioning everything from is an SSD When I try to claim disks on the vSAN configuration wizard I see all disks can be used for cache but none of them can be used for capacity. I looked into the disks further and I saw that when running vdq -q on each host, "IsCapacityFlash": "0", "Name" : "t10.NVMe____VMware_Virtual_NVMe_Disk________________VMWare_NVME2D0000____00000001", "VSANUUID" : "", "State" : "Eligible for use by VSAN", "Reason" : "None", "IsSSD" : "1", "IsCapacityFlash": "0", "IsPDL" : "0", "Size(MB)" : "51200", "FormatType" : "512e", I changed it with this command esxcli vsan storage tag add -d t10.NVMe____VMware_Virtual_NVMe_Disk________________VMWare_NVME2D0000____00000001 -t capacityFlash It reflects correctly under vdq -q now: "IsCapacityFlash": "1", but the same issue in the UI, in that I can't make it a capacity disk (dropdown for these disks only shows "do not claim" or "cache tier") There are no partitions on these disks, they are brand new, provisioned from workstation to the ESXi host(s). Also they are showing as SSD in the UI and I can see all disks in the vSAN disk claim wizard, but not getting "capacity tier" as a dropdown option for claiming. Obviously, this is totally unsupported but looking to see if I can get any guidance on this one from people here.

virtualg_uk · ‎02-25-2019

You should not be getting this vROps alert just by putting a host into maintenance mode. You may get it however when rebooting a host after performing some maintenance. If you wish to not aler...

You should not be getting this vROps alert just by putting a host into maintenance mode. You may get it however when rebooting a host after performing some maintenance. If you wish to not alert on anything for a certain object in vROps, then you can put objects into maintenance mode as per this blog post: Maintenance Mode in vRealize Operations - VMware Cloud Management - This will stop vROps alarms triggering for your hosts for example. Good luck!

virtualg_uk · ‎02-22-2019

It should automatically show up within the web client. Do an adapter rescan if not: VMware Knowledge Base

virtualg_uk · ‎02-22-2019

They used remote access tools (RDP / SSH etc) but the last VM does not have such remote tools available.

virtualg_uk · ‎02-22-2019

It sounds like the best approach would be to use PowerCLI however yes your computer would need access to the vCenter server to run the PowerCLI command

virtualg_uk · ‎02-21-2019

If you cannot fix the issue. one solution is to re-install ESXi onto the host. Obviously, install ESXi to new media / or a new USB drive to keep all existing storage intact (Assuming you ar...

If you cannot fix the issue. one solution is to re-install ESXi onto the host. Obviously, install ESXi to new media / or a new USB drive to keep all existing storage intact (Assuming you are using local disks for the datastore that the VM is on. However, if the datastore is on an external device such as SAN or NAS you can try to mount the datastore / lun etc onto another host if you have one and access the VM from there by browsing the datastore and adding it back into the inventory of a new host)

virtualg_uk · ‎02-21-2019

You might be out of luck here. If the console is frozen, SSH doesn't work, the connection to vCenter is down and directly to host via vSphere client is down then I don't think there is anythin...

You might be out of luck here. If the console is frozen, SSH doesn't work, the connection to vCenter is down and directly to host via vSphere client is down then I don't think there is anything else left to try unless someone else has any ideas?

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