Hi,
I was just wondering what people are using to monitor their ESX servers. We use monitoring software for our windows servers that will alert us for example when a hard drive fails - is there anything similar for ESX?
TIA,
-H
We predominently use HP kit and HP provide management agents which are installed within the Service Console - this allows the hardware to be monitored using HP SIM just like any other piece of HP hardware.
I guess it depends on your hardware vendor.
We are using a mixture of Dell & HP.
Are the HP monitoring kits free?
The agents are a free download from HP yes - http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=3288134&...
Check the eG VMware Monitor - http://www.eginnovations.com/web/vmware.htm - it can monitor your VMs and also the guest OSs.