If you got this behavior, it’s because you’re in a RDP or ICA session trying to enter your root credentials. The only way to work around is the famous VMware KB Repeated characters when typing in remote console:
keyboard.typematicMinDelay = "2000000"
If you suffer from a PEBCAK disease, you might encounter a “Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password” error. In that case, please remove you ski gloves and try again 
To upgrade your existing appliance go get the SexiGraf Update Package on GitHub and use it in the Package Updater (you won’t lost any data of course). If you are new to SexiGraf, the latest appliance is already available on the Quickstart page.
For this first update, we recorded a demo of the upgrade to guide you in the process:
Edit 10 feb 2016: For those of you who downloaded the previous version 0.99b, please apply the 0.99b1 patched version. You can check your current version in the Package Updater admin module.
To upgrade your existing appliance go get the SexiGraf Update Package on GitHub and use it in the Package Updater (you won’t lost any data of course). The update process is the same since 0.99a so you can watch the 0.99a upgrade recorded demo if you need help.
If you are new to SexiGraf, the latest appliance is already available on the Quickstart page.
You may wonder how big you can go with SexiGraf? It turns out you already got the answer in your question: BIG
Check out how many ESXi and VM you can monitor with a single SexiGraf appliance:
Yes, this is 968 ESX, 12405 VMs, 155 TB of RAM and 1.7 PB of storage over 18 vCenters. We only pushed up the appliance to 8 vCPU and 16GB of vRAM to support the load.
We even support high latency networks since one of the vCenters pulling, in this case, takes around 10 minutes to complete where the polling is every 5 minutes:
In this new version, we’ve added the support of the new VSAN 6.2 API but also FreeNAS and Windows!
To upgrade your existing appliance go get the SexiGraf Update Package on GitHub and use it in the Package Updater (you won’t lost any data of course). The update process is the same since 0.99a so you can watch the 0.99a upgrade recorded demo if you need help.
If you are new to SexiGraf, the latest appliance is already available on the Quickstart page.
In this new version, we’ve added the support of the new vSphere 6.5 & vSAN 6.6 APIs. We also embed the very up to date Grafana 4.3 and all the Debian 8.8 packages upgrades for security concerns.
Because of its size and unlike the previous ones, the 0.99d update is distributed as an iso file that you’ll need to mount into your existing SexiGraf VM to launch the embedded update script. But don’t worry, we made it easy as always:
First, download the update iso file:
Download ISO Update – v0.99d “Nova Prospekt”
0cd824b52be3a41b368a80adf74a69a66612002d SexiUpdate099d.isoNow, just mount the SexiUpdate099d.iso update file the way you like the most, from a your local disk or a datastore:
Then mount the “cdrom” inside the guest and launch the update script:
mount /media/cdrom bash /media/cdrom/sexiupdate.sh
The update process usually takes between 5 and 10min depending on the VM “hardware” resources. Once finished, press ENTER to reboot and enjoy your new SexiGraf!
If you are new to SexiGraf, the latest appliance is already available on the Quickstart page.
* For those who can’t wait the next Offline Inventory refresh (every 6h) to experience the new features, please use the manual override to force the refresh.
In this new version, we’ve added the support of the new vSphere 6.7 & vSAN 6.7 APIs.
To upgrade your existing appliance go get the SexiGraf Update Package on GitHub and use it in the Package Updater (you won’t lost any data of course). The update process is the same since 0.99a so you can watch the 0.99a upgrade recorded demo if you need help.
If you are new to SexiGraf, the latest appliance is already available on the Quickstart page.
Due to some unexpected changes in the vSAN 6.7U1 APIs, your SexiGraf appliance won’t be able to fetch vSAN metrics after updating your vCenter in 6.7.0 build 10244857 (aka U1). You’ll also get this error in the log:
DIE Can’t call method “apiType” on an undefined value at /root/VsanPullStatistics.pl line 136.
Today we’re releasing a quick fix (0.99e1) on top of the 0.99e version, meaning you CAN’T apply this fix on previous version. This fix will be integrated in the future patches and releases.
Download v0.99e1 “White Forest” patch
9b422763d967d64402ae3971a9e00c31a0dec04b sexigraf-0.99e1.supFew months ago, we had the amazing opportunity to deploy SexiGraf in a *BIG* company. Think petabytes scale.
In the past, we have already been challenged to make our tool scalable, but not that much:
After many hours of hard work, almost total rewrite of our code and a massive use of hash tables, we are proud to show you a sneak peek of the next SexiGraf version (0.99f) connected to 53 vCenters:
And since the customer hasn’t figured out how to handle syslog for it’s 6000+ ESX yet, we added a “bad” events dashboard (warnings and errors) grouped by clusters:
With a single VM (16 vCPU and 24GB vRAM), the polling is only taking 3 minutes (maximum) to complete:
Stay tuned 
Edit 29 may 2019: For the few of you that would encounter this issue after upgrading, please refer to this post for a fix:
In this new version, we’ve added the support of the new vSAN 6.7U1 API (included in the 0.99e1 emergency patch).
To upgrade your existing appliance get the 0.99f SexiGraf Update Package and use it in the Package Updater (you won’t lost any data of course). The update process is the same since 0.99a so you can watch the 0.99a upgrade recorded demo if you need help.
If you are new to SexiGraf, the latest appliance is already available on the Quickstart page.
After upgrading to 0.99f version, you get this error on any dashboard:
Starting from Grafana 4.5, the version of the graphite datasource is mandatory and that’s why we update a record in the sqlite database during the upgrade process. For a small population of users, this record is not updated for an unknown reason.
To correct that issue, you simply need to force the “0.9” version in the graphite datasource:
In this new version, we’ve added the “official” support for the new vSphere and vSAN 7.0 U1 APIs.
Since VMware announced the depreciation of Perl SDK, we’ve included Powershell and PowerCLI core in the SexiGraf appliance and started to work on code-switching from Perl.
As stated in the previous release notes, SexiGraf now only comes in new ova appliance, no more patches (unless extreme emergency).
To migrate, you have to use the Export/Import feature to pull out your data from your previous SexiGraf appliance and push it to a new one.
If you are new to SexiGraf, the latest appliance is already available on the Quickstart page.
As we stated in the previous release notes, we had to move from Perl SDK to PowerShell SDK which also allowed us to step up to the latest Ubuntu LTS version and making the appliance much lighter.
We also had to finally move from the QueryVsanStatistics method of HostVsanInternalSystem to the “new” VsanPerfQueryPerf of the VsanPerformanceManager for scalability reasons. Unfortunately, this means the intervals of the famous vSAN monitor dashboard is now 5 minutes. We sincerely apologize for this but as the vSAN customers increase and the fact that we couldn’t go above 50 hosts per vCenter, even with parallelization, it was not acceptable anymore.
The good news is we managed to monitor 200+ BIG vSAN clusters (most of them stretched) in a single appliance:
The bad news is because of the massive change of data format, we couldn’t reuse all the stats history (i.e. latency, iops, bandwidth, caches rate, congestion and oio), so vSAN performance metrics will be LOST during this migration. And it doesn’t support vSAN 5.5 and 6.0 so if, somehow, you still got those versions, you might want to stick to SexiGraf 0.99g until you upgrade.
In this new version, we’ve also added the “official” support for the new vSphere and vSAN 7.0 U3 APIs.
As stated in the previous release notes, SexiGraf now only comes in new ova appliance, no more patches (unless extreme emergency).
To migrate, you have to use the Export/Import feature to pull out your data from your previous SexiGraf appliance and push it to a new one.
If you are new to SexiGraf, the latest appliance is already available on the Quickstart page.
In this new version, we’ve added the “official” support for the new vSphere and vSAN 8.0 APIs and also the vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA) full support.
As stated in the previous release notes, SexiGraf now only comes in new ova appliance, no more patches (unless extreme emergency).
To migrate, you have to use the Export/Import feature to pull out your data from your previous SexiGraf appliance and push it to a new one.
If you are new to SexiGraf, the latest appliance is already available on the Quickstart page.
In this new version, we’ve added the “official” support for the new vSphere and vSAN 8.2 APIs and Veeam Backup & Replication v11+.
As stated in the previous release notes, SexiGraf now only comes in new ova appliance, no more patches (unless extreme emergency).
To migrate, you have to use the Export/Import feature to pull out your data from your previous SexiGraf appliance and push it to a new one.
If you are new to SexiGraf, the latest appliance is already available on the Quickstart page.
Since Grafana 8.5.10, something has been changed in the code that affected the graphs granularity in SexiGraf:
We raised an issue but the 8.x branch was out of support so it didnt get much attention. When we figured that it affect ALL the newer versions we pushed for more help but we’re still waiting for a fix.
We know that sticking to Grafana 8.5.9 may raise some security concerns for some people but it would affect the user experience too much to ship SexiGraf with Grafana 9.5.21 (we need to work on v11 since there is some breaking changes).
As soon as the issue has been fixed we’ll ship an updated version.
If you REALLY need a fully compliant version but dont care about the graphics (how dare you!?) we’ve built the same 0.99k with Grafana 9.5.21 for that.
In this new version, we’ve added the “official” support for the new vSphere and vSAN 8.3 APIs and Veeam Backup & Replication v12.
As stated in the previous release notes, SexiGraf now only comes in new ova appliance, no more patches (unless extreme emergency).
To migrate, you have to use the Export/Import feature to pull out your data from your previous SexiGraf appliance and push it to a new one.
If you are new to SexiGraf, the latest appliance is already available on the Quickstart page.
