https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-treshold-alert-on-virtual-machine-with-hp-sim/m-p/4764844#M43340 david tnx!<BR /><BR />guess i found the problem of not gettings the logical disc infos:<BR />vcenter seems to have lost it's communication to hp sim, or vice versa...<BR /><BR />please see attached screenshot!<BR /><BR />the problem is: i cannot EDIT the settings to verify them, - if pressing EDIT i can enter port, user name and password, - but not the system name /address field, - this is greyed out. trying to remove the failed vcenter setting completely results in another error: " "System Name/Address" cannot be empty string or only spaces."...<BR /><BR />trying the NEW button and addmy vcneter server again results in: "vCenter Server has already been added"...<BR /><BR />ever seen this?<BR /><BR />tnx! gerald<BR /> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:44:59 GMT GeraldR 2011-03-15T11:44:59Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-treshold-alert-on-virtual-machine-with-hp-sim/m-p/4764839#M43335 hi!<BR /><BR />does anybody know, is it possible with virtual machine management pack or insight control suite to monitor the disk usage of a virtual machine (linux and windows), - and to get threshold alerts via hp sim?<BR /><BR />tnx! gerald Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:20:22 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-treshold-alert-on-virtual-machine-with-hp-sim/m-p/4764839#M43335 GeraldR 2011-03-14T08:20:22Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-treshold-alert-on-virtual-machine-with-hp-sim/m-p/4764840#M43336 With HP SIM you can gather the data manually and monitor through reports and with an Insight Control license you can set thresholds for alerts. See attached. Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:09:09 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-treshold-alert-on-virtual-machine-with-hp-sim/m-p/4764840#M43336 David Claypool 2011-03-14T13:09:09Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-treshold-alert-on-virtual-machine-with-hp-sim/m-p/4764841#M43337 hi david!<BR /><BR />that sounds quite interesting and exactly what i was looking for... :-)<BR /><BR />i tried to run a report against all virtual machines - logical disk drives...<BR />and i get:<BR />Logical Disk Drives: No data available<BR /><BR />do i have to enable disk monitoring explicitely on the vm's?<BR /><BR />tnx! gerald<BR /> Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:24:09 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-treshold-alert-on-virtual-machine-with-hp-sim/m-p/4764841#M43337 GeraldR 2011-03-14T15:24:09Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-treshold-alert-on-virtual-machine-with-hp-sim/m-p/4764842#M43338 when trying to set a perf threshold on one machine, the "tool launch ok" button tells me "the virtual machine is not connected"...<BR /><BR />maybe this is the reason, that i cannot see the logical dosks in the report as wellà !<BR /><BR />what does sim mean with "...not connected..."?<BR /><BR />the vm is recognized as "...hosted by esx host..." on virtual platform...<BR /><BR />tnx! gerald Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:30:28 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-treshold-alert-on-virtual-machine-with-hp-sim/m-p/4764842#M43338 GeraldR 2011-03-14T15:30:28Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-treshold-alert-on-virtual-machine-with-hp-sim/m-p/4764843#M43339 Use 'Manage Communications' to diagnose... Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:42:00 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-treshold-alert-on-virtual-machine-with-hp-sim/m-p/4764843#M43339 David Claypool 2011-03-14T18:42:00Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-treshold-alert-on-virtual-machine-with-hp-sim/m-p/4764844#M43340 david tnx!<BR /><BR />guess i found the problem of not gettings the logical disc infos:<BR />vcenter seems to have lost it's communication to hp sim, or vice versa...<BR /><BR />please see attached screenshot!<BR /><BR />the problem is: i cannot EDIT the settings to verify them, - if pressing EDIT i can enter port, user name and password, - but not the system name /address field, - this is greyed out. trying to remove the failed vcenter setting completely results in another error: " "System Name/Address" cannot be empty string or only spaces."...<BR /><BR />trying the NEW button and addmy vcneter server again results in: "vCenter Server has already been added"...<BR /><BR />ever seen this?<BR /><BR />tnx! gerald<BR /> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:44:59 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-treshold-alert-on-virtual-machine-with-hp-sim/m-p/4764844#M43340 GeraldR 2011-03-15T11:44:59Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-treshold-alert-on-virtual-machine-with-hp-sim/m-p/4764845#M43341 hi david!<BR /><BR />after fixing the vcenter communications thing, now i have been able to set up the perf treshholds. seems to work, - even with non-win-os... :-)<BR /><BR />what i'm asking myself, - how is the disk usage calculated, if there are more than one hdd within the vm-server??<BR /><BR />because on the "vm performance"-tab of a vm with more than one hdd, there is shown only ONE line for the "Virtual Disk tilization"...<BR /><BR />tnx! gerald Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:28:05 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/server-management-systems/disk-treshold-alert-on-virtual-machine-with-hp-sim/m-p/4764845#M43341 GeraldR 2011-04-12T08:28:05Z