Comments on: VMware Capacity Planner on System without internet

By: admin

admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:07:50 +0000

Hi vmode,

I am sorry if this is too late, but I have been fully booked lately with many larger projects that kept me of my blog for some time. Though if you still curious about that answer:

Usually it takes uninstall of the data collector & delete its folder to change the collector ID. The other method to change the collector ID that I have used earlier, but not sure if it still work with the most recent collector would be:

To stop the service.
Delete the MDBs files
Restart the Service

Enjoy,
Eiad

By: vmode

vmode — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:44:45 +0000

can we upload this data if we register the destination collector only, because the orginal DB ID registered by another company and the customer need more than two company to do the same assessment
I try to change the DB ID within access DB but on dashboard still message appear not enough data collection.

thanks in adv

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:12:04 +0000

You may want to give up.time 5.0 a try, it gives detailed VMware and physical hardware capacity information. It can run locally for as long as you need and then reports can either be run their or the data can be migrated to a different host for analysis.

If you want to see the tool first hand, uptime software will be at VMworld 2009 in San Fran this year. We have a very cool VMworld promo, as we are giving away more than $80k of up.time 5 IT Systems Management software at the booth. http://www.uptimesoftware.com/VMworld-2009.php

By: Jeancarlo

Jeancarlo — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:39:53 +0000

Thanks for you help. I recently visited Bank and send files automatic is not allowed for me.

By: vmbloggie

vmbloggie — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:10:30 +0000

Hi Hodders,

I respect your answer & totally agree with you in case if you are doing an online Capacity planner & have internet access on the machine you are running capacity Planner from, but I believe you had missed the topic in here.

In this post as well Ben question, was involving the offline method of capacity planner, which you might have to do for sensitive customers like banks and ministries or where the customer does not provide you with internet access on the machine you will run capacity planner on. In this case, it will be a really tough task to go and get the data and upload it daily, speciallay if the customer location is not next door. I hope this clear the confusion.

By: hodders

hodders — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:53:49 +0000

>>> “You can actually leave it running for a week or a month at the customer side then upload all the files at once. Actually this is the way it meant to be done”

No, it’s not really “the way it is meant to be done” – uploading it daily allows you to remotely check the data, that all the servers are being polled, and that the data is good.
That said, if the internet link goes down for a day or two, the data will still be collected & stored at the collector PC, and will be uploaded when the internet link is restored. You can use Notifications and Subscriptions within the tool to inform you of such events.

By: vmbloggie

vmbloggie — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:42:35 +0000

Hi Ben,

I don’t think the question you asked sound stupid at all, actually the only stupid question I was able to find is the question that has never been asked .

Ok, the answer of your question is yes. You can actually leave it running for a week or a month at the customer side then upload all the files at once. Actually this is the way it meant to be done.

Though ensure you have a sufficient space to collect the log files for the period you are planning to run the capacity planner for. In addition, make sure you follow the steps mentioned without skipping any one of them specially running the data synchronization.

I hope that help, and keep coming back.

By: ben

ben — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:38:15 +0000

Thanks for this info. Just one question. Do i have to manually upload daily (if there is no internet connection for the data collection server) or can i just leave it running for week and then upload it as a single file? Pardon me if this question sounds stupid as i am doing this for the first time.

By: vmbloggie

vmbloggie — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:57:26 +0000

I sure will do that. I hope some readers will leave feedbacks about this.

By: Mark Angelo

Mark Angelo — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:23:04 +0000

You may want to give Lanamark Suite a try – it’s a great alternative to VMware Capacity Planner that supports multiple virtualization platforms and provides you with the option not to upload customer data.

You can learn more here:
http://www.lanamark.com/product/solution-providers/overview