Do we have any tools or script to proactively monitor ESXi for hardware failures?

[coolcrushier]

I need to come up with a solution to monitor and report proactively for any hardware failures no difference with the vendor(HP/Dell/Lenovo). Do we have any tools in VMware or with 3rd party vendors for proactive monitoring?

Any guidance or suggestions is most appreciated.

[daphnissov]

Aside from the CIM providers (in these vendor-customized ESXi images), there's really not. All these vendors do different things and use different machinery for these checks, which is why something like Proactive HA is created and depends on a vendor-specific provider.

[continuum]

A cynic person may tell a story like this ..

Friday afternoon at office A:
1500 : incoming phonecall: "Boss - we have an emergency: our server-room just caught fire"
1510 : boss pushes the "green button" , does not break a sweat and leaves the office a few minutes later
1600 : Boss keeps his appointment on the golfcourse with some dear friends and enjoys the sunny weather
1610 : Boss gets a call on his mobile phone: "Boss - situation is resolved. All mission critical services are back in business"
Monday morning at the office:
0900 incoming phone call: "Boss - here is the report for the weekend: nothing worth mentioning happened - did you enjoy the weekend ?

Friday afternoon at  office B:
1500 : incoming phonecall: "Boss - we have an emergency: our server-room just caught fire"
1510 : boss switches into panic mode and cancels his golf appointment
Saturday
0200 : emergency meeting
2300 : first rented hardware is delivered
Sunday
0400 : everone at the office is awake since 40 hours and the team allows short naps of 30 minutes to keep up the morale
2200 : first mission critical machines will be installed from scratch
Monday
0900 : 10 mission critical services are supposed to run - just one is actually back in business
0910 : incoming call from CEO - not in a good mood ...
1100 : incoming call from Boss A - bragging about his beautiful, relaxed weekend ...

In other words: one of the most convincing arguments for VMware is that once you decided
to run your IT-department like the folks at VMware do it, all future hardware desasters will no longer be able to seriously hurt you.

Why ahould a company that shines the brightest, when handling of unexpected hardware failures is involved,
want to proactively prevent such problems ?

A VMware user still afraid of hardware failures may be still thinking too small ?

Ulli

[e_espinel]

Hello.
Your question is not very detailed, but you may be interested in looking at the following links:

https://www.site24x7.com/vmware-monitoring.html

https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/vmware-monitoring.html?network=g&device=c&keyword=vm...

https://www.paessler.com/support/how-to/vmware

https://www.solarwinds.com/virtualization-manager/use-cases/vmware-performance-monitoring-tools