How to filter VMware clusters with virt-who?
Environment
- Red Hat Satellite 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- VMware ESX
Issue
- How to
filter VMware clusters
instead of hosts/hypervisors invirt-who
? - How to make sure that only the required clusters are reporting to satellite 6 using virt-who?
- How to
exclude
someESX clusters
from getting reported to Satellite 6 when using virt-who?
Resolution
-
Edit the configuration file and add the paramters:
# vi /etc/virt-who.d/config.conf [config] type=hypervisor_type server=vcenter/esx_host username=vcenter/esx_username owner=owner env=Library filter_host_parents=domain-xx,domain-yy OR exclude_host_parents=domain-zz,domain-xx
NOTE: Use either
filter_host_parents
orexclude_host_parents
.filter_host_parents => Clusters to be reported.
exclude_host_parents => Clusters not to be reported.
Supported Hypervisor Environment:
-
ESX
-
PowerCLI command to find the Cluster Names in Vmware:
> Get-Cluster Name HAEnabled HAFailover DrsEnabled DrsAutomationLevel Level ---- --------- ---------- ---------- ------------------ Cluster-ESXA-00X False 1 True FullyAutomated Cluster-ESXB-00X True 1 True FullyAutomated -
PowerCLI command to find the Cluster ID in Vmware:
> Get-Cluster "ClusterName" | Select ID
-
Replace the
ClusterName
with the actual ClusterName and execute the query:For example:- > Get-Cluster "Cluster-ESXA-00X" | Select ID
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For more KB articles/solutions related to Virt-who and Virtual Datacenter (VDC) Subscriptions Issues, please refer to the Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Virt-who and Virtual Datacenter (VDC) Subscriptions Issues
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4 Comments
Hi. Just to mention that this configuration only worked if the ID of the vCluster is specified. The name didn't work.
Not only this, but also the ID has to be stripped from the initial part, leaving only "domain-XXXXX".
For instance, cluster with ID "ClusterComputeResource-domain-c6979" had to be specified as "domain-c6979" for the filters to work.
Thanks! it works for me, just remove the "ClusterComputeResource-" from the cluster ID as Maria Jover said, delete all virt-who hosts from the content-host view, and restart the virt-who service.
I cannot make it work at all. Names, full IDs, stripped IDs, nothing works. It either scans everything in vSphere or nothing.
This powershell command provides more human friendly output:
As stated by Maria only "domain-XXXXX" portion is required.
In your virt-who-config-#.conf
Watch out for removing virt-who configs in the Satellite GUI as it does NOT remove the config in /etc/virt-who.d/