Monitoring vsphere 4.0

[m1kkel84]

Hello sysadmins.

I would like to monitor our ESX4 servers (4 of them in a cluster with scphere server) - i would like to see the typical vsphere graphs for luns, memory and cpu utilization. I can do that in vsphere client, BUT it is hard to see everything in one graph, and i want to show this on a big tv screen. So i want to have one graph for CPU, one for MEM and so on. 4 or 6 graphs at one page on the tv screen.

Which software can do this sort of monitoring?

I have tried zenoss, but it doesnt work with ESX 4 ...

[vmroyale]

Hello.

What about using the Popup Charts function in the vSphere client?

Good Luck!

[m1kkel84]

well i will check on that, but what are others using?

I assume it is common to monitor your lun performance, cpu usage etc. in graphs?

[sbarie]

You might take a look at LogicMonitor.

Because LogicMonitor can discover and monitor not only the VMware

environment, but also the virtual machine’s operating systems, the

applications running on the VMs (such as IIS, MySQL, Apache, etc), and

the performance metrics of the storage arrays backing the datastores,

LogicMonitor allows you to correlate performance issues and bottlenecks

– no matter where in the infrastructure the root cause is.

http://www.logicmonitor.com/monitoring/virtualization/vmware/

A typical dashboard view of VMware host metrics is attached.

[m1kkel84]

It strikes me, that you may actually be involved with that solution?

Anyhow, 300 dollars pr. month, is expensive. Compared to the one time fee for other solutions that i have found working. Especially when i just have 4 esx servers with 1 cpu in each...

[sbarie]

Yes, I am an employee of LogicMonitor.

[AlbertWT]

Hi There,

I''ve been using Veeam Monitor from http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esx-monitoring.html it works great in freeware too

hope it helps.