I'm looking at all options of monitoring within VMware. We have vCops and vCenter. Just trying to understand all options and get a better feel. vCops is a monster to learn and becoming more clear the more I use it. We currently use HP hardware and a custom ISO to build servers. I dread using 3rd party add-ons to hardware and wonder what built-in SNMP monitoring offers. I always like to ask people in the community their feedback on something like this. It's interesting to here from others. Secondly, at home I run a couple stand-alone desktops with the free VMware hypervisor. It rocks! I setup openNMS and wanted to monitor my home machines. I like to tinker discovering obscure features like SNMP. Monitoring is a passion of mine 🙂 I've never used openNMS, I discovered I could import the VMware mibs. I hope to blog my experiences later on.
