How do you group your VM's with large VM environments?

I am working on grouping and organizing our LM deployment. We have around 2,000 VMs total, many of those are non-essential user VM's and dev machines. For much of our critical infrastructure and application servers we plan on bringing them in as individual devices (50-75 or so) I can group those however I want. My question is: Have you found a good way to group your VM's from the single Vmanage device? With so many VM's we want baseline monitoring for, I just dont see a good way of organizing them without paying for licensing for each individual VM and that is a no go for so many.

Casey_Walgren

Posted 4 years ago·Last reply 4 years ago

3 comments

LM User

·4 years ago

Of course, you can always manually create instance groups and sort the items into them manually.

Steven Parker

·4 years ago

My suggestion would be to clone the DataSource for VM Performance and rename it appropriately for what you are looking for; i.e VMware_vCenter_VMPerformance_DevServers and Displayed as VMware VM Performance - DEV Servers

Then you can create a filter that would narrow down only the Dev servers, which I would guess you could do by name with something like ##WILDALIAS## RegExMatch DEV, so it would look for the word "DEV" in every VM name.

That would give you a grouping of Developer servers under VM Performance.

Cloning the DataSource again and creating a filter that gives you the individual VMs would be the next task. Then you have them grouped, can report on them, and have separate thresholds for them.