Hi
I'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 are all disks that only contain the page file and are usually almost full. Is there a way to exclude only P-drives but not the C-, D-, E- drives?
Gabrie
I would say no: all detected partitions by VMware Tools will be mapped as an instance in the "Guest File System" metric. You cannot assign a different profile on- or simply ignore individual instances.
I think you can simply ignore these (or better: suppress them for a year). Over time, VCOPS will learn that these full P: drives are normal. Also, depending on your environment, do not expect your alert volume should be 0. My team only checks for critical 'infra' alerts (host, cluster, vcenter), an other team check things like full disk space or high amount of anomalies.
I would say no: all detected partitions by VMware Tools will be mapped as an instance in the "Guest File System" metric. You cannot assign a different profile on- or simply ignore individual instances.
I think you can simply ignore these (or better: suppress them for a year). Over time, VCOPS will learn that these full P: drives are normal. Also, depending on your environment, do not expect your alert volume should be 0. My team only checks for critical 'infra' alerts (host, cluster, vcenter), an other team check things like full disk space or high amount of anomalies.
I also recommend, for new installs, to disable alerting for everything except faults. Then add alerts in as you become more familiar with vC Ops and as the normal behavior becomes more established. If you want, you can simply disable alerting for VMs on capacity remaining. Look under Configuration > Manage Policies > Default Policy (assume you are using the default) > Configure Alerts and un-check the capacity/time remaining for VMs at a minimum.
Will do, thx