To check for the drive do the following:
- Go to Administration | Tooling | Script Console
- Select from the dropdown menu: LogicalDisk then click on List Instances
- Then in search field type the drive letter (ie f:\):
modify the rule not to fire for stale drives:
- Go to Administration | Rules & Notifications | Rule Management
- Look for the rule: "VMW Virtual Machine Logical Drive Utilization" click on it and choose copy.
- Click on Rule Editor and Rule Definition, then under Rule Scope remove what is in there and type the following:
VMWVirtualMachineLogicalDisk where (name ! like '%F:\%') and (monitoredHost.name ! like 'servername.com')