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Expect posts facilitating or promoting piracy to be removed. With this being said if you only setup your custom alert on 1 folder and you have datastores in a different folder they will not receive your datastore threshold alert.Have a technical question? Just make a self post!ĭiscussion of piracy methods will not be permitted. The way alerts work in this version of vCenter is top down so by disabling the alert at vCenter it disables it for everything below the vCenter. NOTE: If you have more than one folder created you will have to setup a custom alert for every folder for datastore usage as the first step of this we disabled the datastore alert at the vCenter level.

In the Actions section you can do things such as setup e-mail alerts if you want however I don’t use this feature as I use Veeam One Monitor for my VMware alerting > Click Finish when done. Right click datacenter > Click New Folder > Click New Storage Folder…ĭrag and drop your datatore/datastoress to this folder (You can create multiple folders if you want different alerts for different datastores)Ĭlick on the folder you created > Click Monitor > Click Alarm Definitions > Click +Ĭlick the + button Set your Warning and Critical Condition > Next ***What this does is removes all datastore thresholds that are set by default at the vCenter level***

Open the vSphere Web Client and login > navigate to your datacenter > Click the Monitor tab > Click Alarm Definitions > In the filter field search for “datastore usage on disk” > Click on the definition “Datastore uage on disk” > Click Edit For me a warning of 90% and error at 95% is sufficient for these larger datastores. The reason I set up custom datastore thresholds in vCenter are because some of my datastores are very large and I don’t want to use the default alert of warning at 85% and error at 90%. Setting up custom datastore thresholds in vCenter 6.5

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