Report to tell which hosts VMs have been running on

[mdiver]

I'm looking for a report that tells me which hosts VMs have been run over a period of time.
Imagine a DRS cluster with should rules and you want to find our if you meet your SLAs on that.
Is the data held within VeeamONE (VM was on which host a what time) and can someone give an idea on the report.

Thank you,
Mike

[Shestakov]

Hello Mike,
Have I understood you correctly thinking that you want to get list of VMs running on each host during a chosen period of time?
If you want to track added/removed VMs I would suggest to take a look at VMs Growth report.

[mdiver]

Hello Nikita.

Thanks for your answer. Your first guess is correct. I would like to determine the time certain VMs ran on different hosts.
For a whole bunch of VMs it would be the time each VM spent on each host. Quite like a distribution matrix.

This could be used for SLA validation as well as license validation when a software is only allowed to be run on a defined subset of host.
I was wondering if the data needed is already there so I would be able to build a custom report.

Thank you,
Mike

[Shestakov]

There is no such data in custom reports, however I've got the request into account for the next versions.
Would you like to get a track of VM migrations or an option to get list of VM on chosen time in past?
Thanks

[mdiver]

Basically I thought of a list like

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VM Time on Host [%] between [datetime1] and [datetime2]
     Host1  Host2  Host3
VM1     0     10    90
VM2    18     60    22
VM3     0     90    10

Could be % or total time in the specified range.

A list of migrations could also be helpful to validate license compliance. But that would look different. Maybe both…

Regards,
Mike

[Shestakov]

That's something different from what I initially though of, but makes sense.
Thanks for the feedback, Mike! It's taken into account.

[Shestakov]

By the way, as a workaround you can use Custom Infrastructure report to check in which hosts VM was running in previous periods. You may need to run the report several times, but the data is there.

[mdiver]

Agreed. But you would miss smaller periods inbetween the sample interval and also it's not easy to analyze.
It would be great to have the parent host stored together with all the other parameters (CPU load, Network, etc.).

[Shestakov]

Right, but parent object doesn't change often, so usually we don't keep it as performance metrics. Instead we track host-to-host VM migration with corresponding events. In next versions we need to make the report we discussed above from these events.

[rossi123]

Hello Nikita.

Thanks for your answer. Your first guess is correct. I would like to determine the time certain VMs ran on different hosts.
For a whole bunch of VMs it would be the time each VM spent on each host. Quite like a distribution matrix.

This could be used for SLA validation as well as license validation when a software is only allowed to be run on a defined subset of host.
I was wondering if the data needed is already there so I would be able to build a custom report.

Thank you,
Mike

thank you
yes I agree with you about the first hypothesis
she is ok

[Shestakov]

Do you mean "determine the time certain VMs ran on different hosts", "time each VM spent on each host" or both?