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October 5th, 2012 09:00
Hosts naming - how to use VMware name instead of file name
Please see attached file.
All hosts based on the same templates show up under the same name in Hosts. Is it possible to configure vFoglight to fetch the vCenter naming for the hosts instead of using the VMware disk file name for the actuals hosts?
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john_s_main
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October 5th, 2012 09:00
You are looking in the wrong place in the object model.
VMWare Virtual Machine is an extension of the Host object model. Think of the Host as the base model from the car dealer, and the VM as the base model with all of the bells and whistles added to make it into a street racer.
If you enter a VM name in the upper search bar, you will see that the results returned include objects of different types, probably a VMWare Virtual Machine, and a Host. Selecting the VMWare Virtual Machine will take you to the screens specific to the VMWare object models. Similar results for HyperV, etc.
There is still a Host record for each VM, just as each car from the factory has the base model in there somewhere. It just won't have all of the bells and whistles.
Looking at your attachment, I'm thinking what you are seeing on the dashboard might be what you see in Virtual Center. VMs have a name which shows up on the list in Virtual Center, which can be separate from the actual name assigned to the VM inside of the Operating System. If you correct the naming in VC, I think you will find that the correction will automatically flow through to vFoglight.
odkr-fara.no
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October 5th, 2012 10:00
If I mouse-over the hosts the correct vCenter VMware name shows up.
But you are probably right in that I looked at the wrong object model. I found some better views in the "Enviroment Overview" and using the "VMware" tab there. There the virtual machines are named correctly.
Is it normal that the Disk IO and Network IO values are not shown for all the virtual machines, or do I need to enable another other cartridges and agents to gain this information?
Thanks.
john_s_main
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October 5th, 2012 10:00
If the I/O data is in Virtual Center, it should be in vFoglight.
Of course, this depends on the vFoglight agent being able to collect the data, and having the dashboard set to the time period for which data was collected. If you have the data for some VMs but not others, and (for example) you know that the VMs were running during the time period, then
this would be a great time to open a support ticket.