How to monitor VMware ESX and it's VM's

[kamesh_a]

Hi,

One of our setup has 3 ESX3.5 boxes and one VC/VCB server connected to SAN (MSA). Few VM's are running on these ESX boxes. Currently I am stuggling to implement some monitoring automation to know the availability of both Host & VM's status.

I browsed VC and couldn't find anything as such. Have I missed something to see in VC server?

Can someone give the ways and methods to monitor and get alerts to our mail or mobile for it's status?

We are getting SCOM2007 for our infrastructure monitoring and this will part of it after few months. Untill then... what all the possible ways?

Please share some possible ways?

Thanks,

Kamesh

[weinstein5]

You could set alarms in VC monitoring both hosts and VMs - you could trigger events that will generate e-mail messages to approriate users - check out particularly the section on managing alarms -

[williamarrata]

You may also check 3rd party tools like VEEAM Monitoring or Nimbus or HP SIM. These are very good monitoring tools that work very well.

Hope that helped.

[Gerrit_Lehr]

You could also create custom script for special need on the service console. This Script

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/01/23/howto-sending-html-email-from-the-service-console/

can send E-Mails from the Service Console. Also the ESX healthcheck Script might give you Information about the esx status:

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/01/28/vmware-esx-healthcheck/

VMs may also be monitored like physical servers through the network.

Kind Regards,

Gerrit Lehr

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[Texiwill]

Hello,

There are many tools to do this.... HPSIM, HP OpenView, MOM, unnoc, Nagios, Veeam, vCharter, etc.... It really depends on What you really want to monitor. If its just up/down status then VC, HPSIM, Nagios can give you that.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education. As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

[drowland]

At the very least, if you wanting to monitor hardware issues and you are using HP servers, install SIM (formally CIM). Make sure you are running at least 7.91 since you are running ESX 3.50.

If you are running HP servers, you should have a SIM server already.

[kamesh_a]

Thanks to you all for the valuable suggestion.