Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
You can use the Navigator or the icon on the home screen.
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Right-click the datacenter object and select Alarm
New Alarm Dei nition.
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On the General tab in the Alarm Settings dialog box, enter an alarm name and alarm
description.
5.
Select Virtual Machines from the Monitor drop-down list.
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Be sure that the radio button marked Monitor For Specii c Conditions Or State, For
Example, CPU Usage is selected. Click Next to move on to the Triggers section.
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On the Triggers tab, click the add/plus button to add a new trigger.
8.
Add the trigger type, VM Snapshot Size (GB). For this alarm, you're interested in snap-
shot size only, but these other triggers are available:
VM CPU Demand To Entitlement Ratio
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VM CPU Ready Time
VM CPU Usage
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VM Disk Aborts
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VM Disk Resets
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VM Disk Usage
VM Fault Tolerance Latency
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VM Heartbeat
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VM Max Total Disk Latency
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VM Memory Usage
VM Network Usage
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VM Snapshot Size
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VM State
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VM Total Size on Disk
9.
Ensure that the Operator column is set to Is Above.
10.
Change the warning and critical conditions to be 1 GB and 2 GB, respectively. Click Next
to move to the Actions screen.
