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Vmware ESX or vCenter host statuses explained
ESX or VCenter shows a warning or critical icon under Host Status
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And when you select any of the ESXi hosts and go to details page by click it, it show the Status = Critical
And if you drill down further on Node Details Resource on the same page, you might see the actual root cause of the status being shown as critical. For example a NIC is failing/having issues on this Esxi host.
A Warning Status looks like this, with Yellow Exclamation
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The Host status is based on the overall status property pulled from API and according to Vmware documentation:
"General health of this managed entity. The value combines the status of all the alarms attached to a managed entity.
If any of the alarms has a Gray status, the overall status of the managed entity is Gray.
If any of the alarms has a Red status, the overall status of the managed entity is Red.
If any of the alarms has a yellow status, the overall status of the managed entity is Yellow.
Otherwise, the overall status of the managed entity is Green."
Then in the API, the host/VM status is mapped as follows:
- Yellow- API Warning
- Gray- API Unknown
- Red- API Down (Critical)
- Green- API Up
The Status of Virtual Machine is computed the same way as the ESX Host status
We looked at some hosts and they are in "yellow" which means we already get that "warning" status from VMware.
Connecting to vCenter or host by vSphere client should help find out what is going on as the information displayed by Solarwinds Orion is pulled directly from the Vsphere API.
If you see the status in Vsphere green but status is shown Red (critical) in Orion, then please contact Solarwinds Technical Support