SolarWinds Orion Integrated Virtual Infrastructure Monitor Supplement

Transcription

1 This PDF is no longer being maintained. Search the SolarWinds Success Center for more information. SolarWinds Orion Integrated Virtual Infrastructure Monitor Supplement INTEGRATED VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE MONITOR

2 Copyright SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved worldwide. No part of this document may be reproduced by any means nor modified, decompiled, disassembled, published or distributed, in whole or in part, or translated to any electronic medium or other means without the written consent of SolarWinds. All right, title, and interest in and to the software and documentation are and shall remain the exclusive property of SolarWinds and its respective licensors. SOLARWINDS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, CONDITIONS OR OTHER TERMS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, ON SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION FURNISHED HEREUNDER INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE WARRANTIES OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL SOLARWINDS, ITS SUPPLIERS, NOR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, WHETHER ARISING IN TORT, CONTRACT OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY EVEN IF SOLARWINDS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. The SOLARWINDS, the SOLARWINDS & Design, DAMEWARE, ORION, and other SolarWinds marks, identified on the SolarWinds website, as updated from SolarWinds from time to time and incorporated herein, are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be registered or pending registration in other countries. All other SolarWinds trademarks may be common law marks or registered or pending registration in the United States or in other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks contained and/or mentioned herein are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Microsoft, Windows, and SQL Server are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. SolarWinds Integrated Virtual Infrastructure Monitor 8/11/2014

3 SolarWinds Orion Integrated Virtual Infrastructure Monitor Supplement About SolarWinds SolarWinds, Inc develops and markets an array of IT management, monitoring, and discovery tools to meet the diverse requirements of today s IT management and consulting professionals. SolarWinds products continue to set benchmarks for quality and performance and have positioned the company as the leader in IT management and discovery technology. The SolarWinds customer base includes over 85 percent of the Fortune 500 and customers from over 170 countries. Our global business partner distributor network exceeds 100 distributors and resellers. Contacting SolarWinds You can contact SolarWinds in a number of ways, including the following: Team Contact Information Sales Technical Support User Forums (you need a customer account to access the Customer Support area of the website.) Conventions The documentation uses consistent conventions to help you identify items throughout the printed and online library. Convention Specifying Bold Italics Fixed font Straight brackets, as in [value] Curly braces, as in {value} Logical OR, as in value1 value2 Window items, including buttons and fields Book and CD titles, variable names, new terms File and directory names, commands and code examples, text typed by you Optional command parameters Required command parameters Exclusive command parameters where only one of the options can be specified About SolarWinds iii

4 Supplement SolarWinds Orion Integrated Virtual Infrastructure Monitor iv Conventions

5 SolarWinds Orion Integrated Virtual Infrastructure Monitor Supplement Contents About SolarWinds... iii Contacting SolarWinds... iii Conventions... iii Chapter 1 Introduction... 7 Requirements... 7 Activating and Licensing... 7 Chapter 2 Managing VMware Assets... 9 Viewing the Virtualization Summary Viewing ESX Host Details Changing Polling Orders for ESX Servers Updating VMware Credentials Contents v

6 Supplement SolarWinds Orion Integrated Virtual Infrastructure Monitor vi Contents

7 SolarWinds Orion Integrated Virtual Infrastructure Monitor Supplement Chapter 1 Introduction SolarWinds Orion Integrated Virtual Infrastructure Monitoring (IVIM) built into NPM lets you monitor today's modern network fabric of virtual networks, virtualized data centers, and private clouds. The deep visibility into your virtualized environments helps you ensure that network performance helps and not hinders your virtualization projects. VMware Monitoring Monitor your entire VMware virtual infrastructure from the highest to the lowest level: vcenter datacenter cluster ESX hosts individual virtual machines. Track availability and performance metrics including CPU, memory, storage, and network bandwidth utilization. Virtual Machine Auto-Summary Automatically discover, identify, and monitor new virtual machines added to any VMware host server or updated during vmotion. Virtualization Alerting and Reporting The native alerting and reporting capabilities of SolarWinds Orion extend seamlessly to your virtual infrastructure. For more extensive virtualization monitoring, integrate SolarWinds NPM with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager. For more information, see Virtualization Manager at Requirements VMware ESX or vcenter accounts used as credentials must have read-only permissions as a minimum. Activating and Licensing There is no separate activation or licensing for SolarWinds Orion IVIM. It is included with the latest version of SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor (Orion NPM). Introduction 7

8 Supplement SolarWinds Orion Integrated Virtual Infrastructure Monitor 8 Introduction

9 SolarWinds Orion Integrated Virtual Infrastructure Monitor Supplement Chapter 2 Managing VMware Assets The primary way of adding VMware servers to SolarWinds Orion is through the Network Sonar Wizard, but it is also possible to add individual VMware virtual machines (VMs) from the VMware Assets resource. Polling for VMware nodes Using the Network Sonar Wizard Add VMware Vcenter, ESX servers, virtual machines from the Network Sonar Wizard by checking the Poll for VMware option in the wizard. For more information, see Discovering and Adding Network Devices in the SolarWinds Orion Common Components Administrator Guide. Adding VMs from the VMware Assets Resource 1. Log in to the web console. 2. Depending on your setup and whether you have Virtualization Manager integrated with Orion, go to either Virtualization Tab > Virtualization Summary, or Home > Virtualization. 3. Click the [+] next to any ESX or VCenter server listed in the VMware Assets resource to expand the list of virtual machines. 4. Click a virtual machine that is not currently managed by SolarWinds Orion. Unmanaged VMs are listed in italic type. 5. Click Manage This Node. 6. If the VM is not running VMware Tools, manually enter the IP address of the VM in the Polling Hostname or IP Address field. 7. Select any additional options required to monitor the VM, and then click Next. 8. Follow the remainder of the Add Node wizard to completion, and then click OK, Add Node. Managing VMware Assets 9

10 Supplement SolarWinds Orion Integrated Virtual Infrastructure Monitor Viewing the Virtualization Summary The Virtualization Summary view shows the overall status of your virtualized infrastructure. To view the Virtualization Summary: 1. Log in to the web console. 2. Depending on your setup and whether you have Virtualization Manager integrated with Orion, go to either Virtualization Tab > Virtualization Summary, or Home > Virtualization. The Virtualization Summary view is pre-configured to display the following resources: Top 10 Hosts by CPU Load Top 10 Hosts by Percent Memory Used Virtualization Assets VMware vcenters with Problems Hosts with Problems Top 10 Hosts by Number of Running VMs Top 10 Hosts by Network Utilization Virtualization Asset Summary Virtual Clusters with Problems Guests with Problems Click Edit in the resource to change the properties or contents of any resource. Viewing ESX Host Details The ESX Host Details page is displayed when you click an ESX Host server in the Virtualization Summary. This page displays the following resources: 10 Managing VMware Assets

11 SolarWinds Orion Integrated Virtual Infrastructure Monitor Supplement Virtualization Manager Tools Average Response Time & Packet Loss Graph Virtualization Assets CPU Load & Memory Utilization Gauge ESX Host Details Management Node Details Event Summary Top CPUs by PercentLoad Active Alerts on this Node Polling Details Availability Statistics Virtual Machine CPU Consumption Guests with Problems Custom properties for Nodes List of Virtual Machines Average Response Time & Packet Loss Min/Max Average CPU Load Graph Disk Volumes Virtual Machine Memory Consumption Virtual Machine Network Traffic Click Edit in the resource to change the properties or contents of any resource. Changing Polling Orders for ESX Servers If your VMware ESX hosts are controlled by VMware vcenter servers, SolarWinds Orion obtains the status of the ESX hosts from the vcenter server instead of polling the ESX hosts directly. To poll the ESX servers directly you must change the Poll Through setting of the ESX host from the VMware Settings page. From this page, you can also disable and enable polling for ESX hosts and vcenter servers. To poll a vcenter-managed ESX Host from the SolarWinds Orion server: 1. Log in to the web console. 2. Click Settings. 3. In the Settings grouping, click Virtualization Settings > VMware Settings. 4. Point to any column heading, click the drop-down arrow, and then click Columns > Polling Through. 5. Select the ESX hosts you want to poll directly. 6. Click Poll Through > Poll ESX server directly. Updating VMware Credentials If you want to update the user name or password of a VMware credential, you can do so from the VMware Credentials Library tab. Managing VMware Assets 11

12 Supplement SolarWinds Orion Integrated Virtual Infrastructure Monitor To update a VMware credential: 1. Log in to the web console. 2. Click Settings. 3. In the Settings grouping, click Virtualization Settings > VMware Settings. 4. Click the VMware Credentials Library tab. 5. Select the credential you want to update, and then click Edit Credential. 6. Make the necessary updates, and then click OK. 12 Managing VMware Assets