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Ryan701
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vROPS 6.6 Storage Metric

Hey everyone, I am trying to figure out a way that I can have an alert created that would flag anytime my storage auto expanded. I am using Blue Medora NetApp pluggin so I am able to pull logs from my storage but I am not seeing anything in it nor anything built in that would monitor the delta in the capacity of a datastore.

Has anyone created either a super metric or know of something that I am missing?

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dtaliafe
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I think that capturing a log event like daphnissov suggested is the way to go, but another option might be to use a dynamic threshold.  The Total Capacity metric for the datastore should be static except when the storage expands, so if it is above threshold I think it's a safe bet the datastore was expanded.

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You might be able to do this by sending alerts from Log Insight (based on queries from NetApp or vSphere logs) over to vROps and correlate that to some object.

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dtaliafe
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I think that capturing a log event like daphnissov suggested is the way to go, but another option might be to use a dynamic threshold.  The Total Capacity metric for the datastore should be static except when the storage expands, so if it is above threshold I think it's a safe bet the datastore was expanded.

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Thanks @daphnissov for that idea, I wish I was able to have Log Insight in my environment but at the current time it is not available to me.

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dtaliafe​ thanks for the additional idea with the Total Capacity metric. I am going to try to work with this sense I don't have Log Insight in my environment.

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