Monitoring & Alerting on CPU Ready & Memory Ballooning

[dougdavis22]

I'm looking for a way or a tool that can monitor my VC/ESX/VM environment and alert on CPU Ready & Memory Ballooning/VMKSwap. CPU Ready seems to be pretty well catered for in various tools I've seen, but no-one seems to offer alerting on Memory Ballooning/Swap. I personally want to know if the balloon driver is being heavily used and likewise defintely want to know if the VM swap is being used.

Does anyone know of a way to alert on these without 3rd party tools, or has anyone seen or is using a tool that can do the job?

Thanks.

Doug.

[Troy_Clavell]

check out this document, it may be useful

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9279

...or if you prefer .pdf

[dougdavis22]

Thanks for the link, but this still doesn't help me with being able to monitor & alert on these things.

Cheers,

Doug.

[AntonVZhbankov]

Take a look at Veeam Monitor or Veeam nWorks if you use HP OVO or Microsoft System Center.

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[Troy_Clavell]

Capacity Analyzer

great product!

....and for free

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