topic VMM and Disk Partition Information in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

VMM and Disk Partition Information

Rob Buxton — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:17:08 GMT

I have the VMM 1.1 Module installed and works okay. The Virtual Host is VMware ESX 2.5.1.
On 4 out of 5 Virtual Guests the display of the disks does not show the disk partition information in the VMM Display.

On the 5th Server it provides detail and a nice graphical display.

Anyone know how the VMM gets the disk partition information from the Virtual Guests?
One difference is the working Server is W2000, the non-working ones are W2003.
Checked SNMP, they seem to be the same between Servers. They're all in the same domain so that shouldn't be an issue.

Re: VMM and Disk Partition Information

Ole Thomsen_1 — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:15:19 GMT

I have the disk details on all W2003 guests, on both ESX and GSX hosts.

Did you apply the HPSIM patch for 4.2 at http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/23181.html?

It solves some problems on W2003 introduced by a MS hotfix.

Re: VMM and Disk Partition Information

David Claypool — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 07:58:09 GMT

Rob: Information from the virtual guests is collected via WMI, not SNMP. By any chance do they have a different set of credentials required?

Re: VMM and Disk Partition Information

Rob Buxton — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 13:21:28 GMT

Ole, yes I have the latest patch.

David,
Thanks, knowing it is WMI helps. I'm using the Global WBEM settings for all of the VM Servers, and that is a domain account. All Servers are in the same domain so login credentials should be okay.

I think they all may have all displayed partition information before I updated ESX from 2.5.0 to 2.5.1 (build 14182), but I cannot guarantee that.

If the credentials were not correct, I would ahve thought other information would have been missing. But the CPU graphs etc. are all fine.