Hello list,
I have 2 vCenter Servers and I want to monitor them with Spectrum 9.2.1. One of
them is a physical host and the other one is a VM. The first vCenter I
discovered is the physical one, and Spectrum modeled it correctly. This vCenter
manages 3 ESXi 4.0 Servers. In one of them lives the other vCenter (VM). If I
try to discover the virtualized vCenter, Spectrum shows a Warning alarm stating
that VHM discovery is disabled. The message is the following:
Virtual Host Manager has identified the device VCENTER02.netsolintl.com.ar as a
manager for the VMware virtual technology. However, this device is already
being managed by another virtual technology. This is an unsupported
configuration and as a result VHM discovery on this model has been disabled.
Technology Application Model Handle = 0x101fe4
The strangest thing is that when I first discovered my first vCenter (and
brought all the VM among the 3 ESXi servers), this virtualized vCenter had no
SNMP agent enabled, so it was modeled as a Virtual Machine model (like a
pingable). After installing SystemEdge with Advanced Encryption and then VCAIM,
I discovered this virtualized vCenter and Spectrum modeled its structure
correctly! But just after upgrading ICMP-only devices to support SNMP was when
Spectrum put this VM as a SystemEDGE host and showed the VHM discovery disabled.
So, just to clarify this a bit, I have something like this:
VHM+
- vCenter01
- DataCenter
+ESXi01
-VM01
- ...
- VM 0n
+ESXi02
-VM01
- ...
- VM 0n
+ESXi03
-VM01
- ...
- vCenter02 (at first, SNMP
disabled - then, installed SystemEDGE with VCAIM)
- VM 0n
So, the question is: Does Spectrum have the ability to monitor a vCenter that
is a VM? Can I monitor multiple vCenters in one SpectroServer? I think I can do
the last thing. What I cannot do is to model different Virtualization Platforms
in only one SpectroServer (I mean, Hyper-V, VMWare, Solaris Zones, etc, cannot
be modeled in one SpectroServer).
Another thing to note is that one the VM I have managed by vCenter02 (the
virtualized one) is a Server Automation server, which can manage multiple
virtualization platforms. What do you suggest? Shall I model only the Server
Automation server (which I think it will bring all the vCenters I have in my
network)?
Best regards
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Elio Frongia
System Engineer
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(C1007ABF)
Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Argentina
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