ESXi

  • 1.  ESXi standalone hardware monitoring

    Posted Jul 20, 2011 08:22 PM

    Hello:

    What is (if any) the best way to monitor hardware components on standalone ESXi host?

    Thanks



  • 2.  RE: ESXi standalone hardware monitoring

    Posted Jul 20, 2011 08:28 PM

    maybe the below document will help?

    http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-11641

    also, check out http://www.it-book.co.uk/794/monitoring-standalone-esxesxi-server-hardware-with-the-vma



  • 3.  RE: ESXi standalone hardware monitoring

    Posted Jul 20, 2011 08:30 PM

    Major server vendors offer CIM providers for their hardware and also monitoring tools. For example HP offers a so called Offline bundle with the CIM providers for the different versions of ESXi and HP-SIM (a Windows application) as a monitoring tool.

    André



  • 4.  RE: ESXi standalone hardware monitoring

    Posted Jul 20, 2011 08:42 PM

    Veeam monitor can monitor some hardware but it will depend on what hardware is visible from the vSphere Client Configuration Tab / Hardware

    http://www.veeam.com/esxi-monitoring-free.html



  • 5.  RE: ESXi standalone hardware monitoring

    Posted Jul 21, 2011 08:10 AM

    Here's another option by me: http://blog.peacon.co.uk/hardware-health-alerting-with-esxi/



  • 6.  RE: ESXi standalone hardware monitoring

    Posted Jul 21, 2011 08:35 PM

    The script option is really good, but I want to get alert notification in real time, but not at specific time or in some interval.

    Is it possible?

    Thanks a lot!



  • 7.  RE: ESXi standalone hardware monitoring

    Posted Jul 21, 2011 09:20 PM

    Just schedule the script to be run periodically, every hour or even every 15 minutes if necessary.