I am not sure what impact on your Spectrum servers it would be if you set the global collection to Real-Time Update (or 1 hour update) rather than the default which is 24 hours. If you don't know where I am talking about edit the global collection then click the Search Options button...in the lower left there is a check box for Real-Time Update and below that there is a box to chose from.
Have you considered letting your operators drive from VHM on the landscape? Thanks, -----Original Message----- From: Robert Borowicz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 1:39 PM To: spectrum Subject: [spectrum] Global Collections and Virtual Host Manager We use Global Collections quite robustly at our site. (80+ of them) We also have a sizable Virtual (VMWare) environment with upwards of 90 ESX servers and about 1200 VM's. Clearly the VM based servers are a big part of our Global Collections and we further embellish the GC's with the Virtual Switches which Spectrum represents with Rpt_Segments in the individual ESX topologies. We also add the Physical Switch Spectrum resolves the Virtual Switches to as well in the GC. Our VMWare admins maintain a healthy vMotion configuration in which a VM is moved from one ESX chassis to another. We see this happen quite often across the Virtual environment. When this happens Spectrum will discover the connection on the new ESX chassis and update the Universe topology in the ESX topology. Spectrum will NOT update the Global Collection and I see where this could and should be done in conjunction with the Universe Topology update. Anybody agree? Spectrum's strength are its maps and as such Global Collections. My situation presents an almost unsustainable environment to keep up with. Thanks in advance. -Rob Borowicz --- To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected] --- To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected]
