ESXi monitoring

[mozzie]

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I want to extract information such as ESXi host CPU temperature, HD temperatures, Total CPU usage (of all VMs), NIC usage stats.

Is this possible to do within a Virtual Machine running on the host? There are many tools such as Aida64, Speedfan, CPU-Z that can do this directly under Windows on a physical PC but not seen anything that interrgogates ESXi hypervisors.

Thanks.

[JarryG · Accepted solution]

VM does not have direct access to the underlying real hardware. Therefore you can not monitor hardware health directly. You could use client-server approach, but that requires some kind of software for ESXi. Typically this way you can monitor i.e. raid-controllers by VM...

But most of the above mentioned parameters can be monitored by ESXi if you hardware is on HCL (you can see it in vSphere Client). So using some script programming you could collect those data by VM.