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  1. 1

    Roberto Gaetano Pulvirenti

    Hi Viktorious,
    interesting article, but I think that VM uptime is reset after a vmotion. This would make any availability calculation unreliable. What’s your view?
    Thanks.
    Roberto

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    1. 1.1

      viktorious

      Good one, let me dive into this and I will come back to you!

      Reply
  2. 2

    viktorious

    Hi, I’ve tested the scenario but I don’t see uptime being reset after a vMotion.

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  3. 3

    okeedokee

    Excellent post!

    I’m thinking of trying something similar for hosts. It could be used for SLA compliance, general uptime/downtime reporting and tied in with server costs to see how much host downtime really costs.

    I see the system host properties Runtime|Connection State and Runtime|Maintenance State could be used for calculating this uptime/downtime.

    Thanks

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    1. 3.1

      viktorious

      Good one! I actually played with these counters in another dashboard. Specifically the Runtime|Maintentance State can be used to get a quick overview of which host are in maintenance state.

      Reply
  4. 4

    Gulam

    Excellent post

    Hi Viktorious, Thank you very much for this post, i was looking same thing since long time. base on super metric mentioned in this post, is it possible to get one month uptime report? like vm was up 80% and vm was down 20% in the month?

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    1. 4.1

      viktorious

      Yes you can do this through a Report or a View using the available statistical constructs (you probably would need “average”).

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  5. 5

    Pankuri Mahajan

    Does the metric – Resource Availabilty and vROPS generated | availability resets post restart of agent / server . Also , what happens in case of any windows service .

    Reply

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