Hyper9 Video: Find, Report and Monitor Virtual Machines with Connected Media

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Hyper9 Video: Find, Report and Monitor Virtual Machines with Connected Media
posted by David Marshall
Fri, May 1 2009


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This video will show you how to leverage Hyper9 to identify all of the virtual machines in your environment that have media attached to them. VMs that have media connected to them can cause problems since it can prevent a VMotion from occuring, and it can also cause problems with VMware DRS and DPM.

In this scenario, there are two VirtualCenter instances gathering information in the environment - a production VC and a Test/Lab VC. Using the search bar helper, we can build a query that will search and find the production VC instance, its virtual machines, and the VMs that have media connected to them. Once you get the results back from your query, you can save that query for later use, and then export that data out to a report that can be used to notify the VM owners that media should not be left attached to production virtual machines.

You can also leverage this query in a more proactive way by using the Hyper9 Alerting and Monitoring tool. You might want to be alerted anytime someone connects media to any of your virtual machines running in the production environment. In this way, you can be notified about virtual machines with media connected to them before you have a potential VMotion problem.