Alarm exceptions for VM guest

[godbucket]

Even being VCP 3.0 and 4.0 and having 5 years professional experience with VMware products, I still have a total noob question. Its just one of those little things that if you dont use it everyday you forget, ya know? Please keep laughter to a minimum

Anyway, how do I make an exception in Alarms for a particular VM guest?

I have all my alarms defined at the VirtualCenter/vSphere Server level, but I have one particular VM that flies off the handle every night thanks to an extremely poorly written process job.

I want to set that particular virtual machine guest's alarm triggers to be much higher and/or completely strip it of memory usage alarms.

Please remind me: how do I do that again?

Does it work like Group Policies and can I just define a new alarm on the guest itself and will that take precedence over the parent's alarm?

Thanks in advance!!!

[admin · Accepted solution]

Hey godbucket,

So the alarm definition on the vm should take precedence over any defined above it (cluster, datacenter, etc.) You could also disable all alarm actions (not the alarm itself) for that guest by right-clicking the VM and going to Alarm > Disable Alarm Actions. Hope that helps!

[godbucket]

That's it!!! That'll work! Like I said, its like a foreign language: if you don't use it everyday you'll forget it. Thanks again!

[MallocArray]

Thank you! I had the same question for my VDR VM. I would prefer to have an exceptions for only the memory and CPU, but disabling all of them will work for this instance.