Veeam ONE offers the following types of alarm rules for VMware vSphere infrastructure objects:
vCenter Server
Rule Type | Description |
Event-based rule | An alarm is triggered if some vCenter-related event is generated. |
Existing alarm | An alarm is triggered if the state of another selected alarm is changed. |
Power or connection state changes | An alarm is triggered if the vCenter Server state reports to be equal or not equal to a specific state value (for example, if vCenter Server is not responding). |
Cluster
Rule Type | Description |
Event-based rule | An alarm is triggered if some cluster-related event is generated. |
Existing alarm | An alarm is triggered if the state of another selected alarm is changed. |
Resource usage is out of allowed range | An alarm is triggered if the specified counter is above or below the specified threshold value (for example, if the memory usage exceeds 80%). |
Host
Rule Type | Description |
Event-based rule | An alarm is triggered if some host-related event is generated. |
Hardware sensor state changes | An alarm is triggered if the sensor state reports to be equal or not equal to a specific state value (Normal, Warning, Alert, Unknown). |
Number of VMs is out of allowed range | An alarm is triggered if the number of running, powered off or suspended VMs on the ESX(i) host exceeds the specified threshold value. This type of alarm can be configured if it is necessary to limit the number of VMs running on the ESX(i) host at the same time to avoid the host overload. |
Existing alarm | An alarm is triggered if the state of another selected alarm is changed. |
Power or connection state changes | An alarm is triggered if the host state reports to be equal or not equal to a specific state value (for example, if the ESX(i) host is not responding). |
Resource usage is out of allowed range | An alarm is triggered if the specified counter is above or below the specified threshold value (for example, if the CPU usage exceeds 75%). |
Virtual Machine
Rule Type | Description |
Event-based rule | An alarm is triggered if some VM-related event is generated (for example, if the MAC address of the VM conflicts with the MAC address of another VM existing in the virtual infrastructure). |
Orphaned Veeam Backup & Replication snapshot has been detected | An alarm is triggered if a VM has a snapshot that Veeam Backup & Replication created (to back up, replicate or perform another data protection operation for the VM) but was unable to remove when the operation was over. |
Heartbeat is missing | An alarm is triggered if a monitored virtual machine is not available or overloaded for a specific period of time (for example, if heartbeat is missing for 5 minutes). |
Existing alarm | An alarm is triggered if the state of another selected alarm is changed. |
Power or connection state changes | An alarm is triggered if the state of the VM reports to be equal or not equal to the specified state value (for example, if the VM is suspended). |
Resource usage is out of allowed range | An alarm is triggered if the specified counter is above or below the specified value (for example, if the CPU ready level exceeds 5%). |
Guest volumes are running out of free disk space | An alarm is triggered if available disk space on guest volumes is below the specified threshold value. You can choose to specify the amount of due free space as an absolute value (for example, if free disk space falls below 1 GB) or a relative value (for example, if free disk space falls below 10% of total space). |
Snapshot age for VM has exceeded the configured threshold | An alarm is triggered if the current snapshot is older than a specified number of hours. This rule helps monitor forgotten snapshots that are consuming valuable storage space and degrading performance of virtual machines. |
VM snapshots number has exceeded the configured threshold | An alarm is triggered if the number of snapshots created for the VM is greater than the specified threshold. |
Snapshot size for VM is out of allowed range | An alarm is triggered if the size of the VM snapshot is above or below the specified threshold value. You can choose to specify the size of the snapshot as an absolute value (for example, if the snapshot size exceeds 5 GB) or a relative value (for example, if the snapshot size exceeds 10% of total available disk space). |
VMware VM tools state changes | An alarm is triggered if the state of the VMware Tools reports to be equal or not equal to the specified state value (for example, if the VMware Tools is out of date). |
VMs with no restore points | An alarm is triggered if the age of the latest backup or replica restore point for the VM has exceeded the threshold (that is, if there are no restore points for the specified RPO period). |
Datastore
Rule Type | Description |
Event-based rule | An alarm is triggered if some datastore-related event is generated. |
Datastore is running out of free space | An alarm is triggered if free space on the datastore is above or below the specified threshold value. You can choose to specify the free space threshold as an absolute value (for example, if the datastore space should not fall below 10 GB) or a relative value (for example, if the datastore free space should not fall below 15% of total space). |
Datastore provisioned space | An alarm is triggered if the provisioned disk space is above or below the specified threshold value. You can select to specify the threshold as an absolute value (for example, if the provisioned disk space should not exceed 500 GB) or a relative value (for example, if the provisioned disk space should not exceed 400% compared to the datastore capacity). |
Datastore speed | An alarm is triggered if the speed of datastore operations is above or below the specified threshold value. |
Existing alarm | An alarm is triggered if the state of another selected alarm is changed. |
Power or connection state changes | An alarm is triggered if the state of the datastore reports to be equal or not equal to the specified state value (for example, if the datastore is not accessible). |
Resource usage is out of allowed range | An alarm is triggered if the specified counter is above or below the specified threshold value (for example, if the datastore I\O threshold is violated). |
Any object
Rule Type | Description |
Event-based rule | An alarm is triggered if some event is generated on any object in the infrastructure. |
Existing alarm | An alarm is triggered if the state of another selected alarm is changed. |
vCloud Director vApp
Rule Type | Description |
Event-based rule | An alarm is triggered if some vApp-related event in generated. |
Existing alarm | An alarm is triggered if the state of another selected alarm is changed. |
Resource usage is out of allowed range | An alarm is triggered if the specified counter is above or below the specified value (for example, if the storage usage exceeds 80%). |
vCloud Director object task status | An alarm is triggered if the vApp state reports to be equal or not equal to a specific state value (for example, if warnings are registered for the vApp). |
System health status change | An alarm is triggered if the object health state changes. |
vApp runtime lease timeout | An alarm is triggered in N days after the vApp runtime lease has expired. |
vApp storage lease timeout | An alarm is triggered in N days after the vApp storage lease has expired. |
vCloud Director Organization
Rule Type | Description |
Event-based rule | An alarm is triggered if some event is generated on the organization. |
Existing alarm | An alarm is triggered if the state of another selected alarm is changed. |
Organization VCD blocking task number | An alarm is triggered if the number of pending blocking tasks has exceeded the specified threshold. |
Organization VCD blocking task timeout | An alarm is triggered in N minutes after the blocking tasks has expired. |
vCloud Director object task status | An alarm is triggered if the organization state reports to be equal or not equal to a specific state value (for example, if warnings are registered for the organization). |
System health state change | An alarm is triggered if the object health state changes. |
vCloud Director Org VCD
Rule Type | Description |
Event-based rule | An alarm is triggered if some event is generated on the organization VCD. |
Existing alarm | An alarm is triggered if the state of another selected alarm is changed. |
Resource usage is out of allowed range | An alarm is triggered if the specified counter is above or below the specified value (for example, if the CPU ready level exceeds 5%). |
vCloud Director object task status | An alarm is triggered if the organization VCD state reports to be equal or not equal to a specific state value (for example, if warnings are registered for the organization VCD). |
System health status change | An alarm is triggered if the object health state changes. |
Network pool is running out of available IP addresses | An alarm is triggered if the number of remaining IP addresses is above or below the specified threshold value. You can select to specify the threshold as an absolute value (for example, if the number of remaining IP addresses should not be lower than 5) or a relative value ( if the number of remaining IP addresses should not be lower than 10% of the total number for the organization VCD network). |
vCloud Director Provider VCD
Rule Type | Description |
Event-based rule | An alarm is triggered if some event is generated on the provider VCD. |
Existing alarm | An alarm is triggered if the state of another selected alarm is changed. |
Resource usage is out of allowed range | An alarm is triggered if the specified counter is above or below the specified value (for example, if the storage usage exceeds 80%). |
vCloud Director object task status | An alarm is triggered if the provider VCD state reports to be equal or not equal to a specific state value (for example, if warnings are registered for the provider VCD). |
System health status change | An alarm is triggered if the object health state changes. |
Resource Pool
Rule Type | Description |
Event-based rule | An alarm is triggered if some event is generated on a resource pool. |
Existing alarm | An alarm is triggered if the state of another selected alarm is changed. |
Resource usage is out of allowed range | An alarm is triggered if the specified counter is above or below the specified value (for example, if the CPU usage exceeds 80%). |
