Announcing: miTrend VMware Capacity and Configuration Assessment!

It is called the VMware Capacity and Configuration tool which is available from the miTrend site that a Sales Engineer or Partner has access to under the VMware section.

The tool leverages PowerCLI to perform the collection and relies solely on information that is available currently through the vSphere APIs.  The default collection behavior of vCenter provides enough information to fully populate this report so we aren't asking for any additional information from hypervisors.

Clinton,

what is the name of the tool that i should ask from my EMC SE ? So this tool runs against my vCenter infrastructure or do i need something else (vCops) ?

Thanks

thank you, you mention that after running the tool i will need to provide "EMC secure HTTP site to send the tool's results". I am a customer, what do i do ?

Thanks for sharing Clint, running against our environment now.  Will be a great additional tool we can use to help customers understand what they have a little bit more.

Any thoughts on why after submitting manually through MITRENDS i'm only getting a .xls output in return vs the .xls and the pp slides?

The collection document provides the steps to complete the assessment.  As a step, a secure HTTP URL is requested which is provided by an EMC representative which allows for automatic upload of results immediately following collection.  This can be used, or the results can simply be emailed prior to processing in miTrend.

Duane,

Thanks for the feedback!

Clinton Kitson wrote: The collection document provides the steps to complete the assessment.  As a step, a secure HTTP URL is requested which is provided by an EMC representative which allows for automatic upload of results immediately following collection.  This can be used, or the results can simply be emailed prior to processing in miTrend.

Clinton,

so everytime i need to run a discovery i will need to get my EMC rep to provide me a "new" URL ?

In order to get the consolidated XLS or PPTX (at GA), the miTrend SaaS portal is used.  The output of the collection tool is a ZIP file that includes XML files that miTrend is expecting to see.

With that said, when running the assessment there are CLIXML files created (but not included in zip) that can be leveraged natively in Powershell or with Import-CliXml and Out-GridView cmdlets to review results soon after running.  As well there are global variables that contain the same results.  The collection document briefly discusses this.  These CliXml files can be found in a directory called Content where the collection ZIP is located.  Thosre familiar with PowerCLI could adapt the collection cmdlet to run on-demand and in any way they desire but overall this was intended to contain logic and presentation at the miTrend SaaS layer.

I'm having an issue with re-sending an existing MiTrend Assessment.  When I hit resend via the Assessments tab I received an error message:  Error has occured, Status code 500.  Has anyone else seen this issue?

I am trying to run this on a customer's workstation and I'm getting only about half of the xml files back that are required by MiTrend and that I receive when I run the report on my personal ESX environment. If the log isn't being kept or zipped up, is there another way to troubleshoot this? The report is taking about 5 hours and has failed twice. I'm only getting the following files.

clusterReportConfig.xml

DatastoreReportConfig.xml

VIServerReportConfig.xml

VMHostReportConfig.xml

VMReportConfig.xml

VMReportDisk.xml

VMReportDiskSummary.xml

I'm missing:

AssessmentLog.xml

ClusterDatastoreReportVMHost.xml

ClusterDatastoreReportVMHostgroup.xml

ClusterDatastoreReportVMHostLookup.xml

FolderAll.xml

FolderAllIndentedName.xml

VMwareAssessmentVersion.xml

VmReportDatastoreVmFileUsage.xml

VmReportDatastoreVmHostParentUsage.xml

VmReportDatastoreVmHostUsage.xml

VmwareAssessmentVersion.xml

When creating an assessment for a customer, what option do we choose when creating a new assessment? EMCGrab? VMWare? There does not seem to be an option for this new type of report...

Hi Clinton,

Which tool is this within Mitrend?

I only see the perfcollect scripts which note an error with VC 5.1 - is this still the case?

Thanks

JB

I received the xlsx file after submitting it today.   What it also supposed to also have a Powerpoint slides with it?