How to monitor remaining disk space within virtual machines ?

[trittschack]

Hey guys,

do you know a simple way how to monitor the used/remaining disk space within a virtual machine ? Something like the alarm or triggering-function in VC ?

Is there a way to do that without installing some stuff inside the VM ?

Any help is appreciated !

[KevinG]

What VMware product are you using?

[thorsten_tritts]

Ups, sorry - we're using ESX 3.01 with VC 2.01.

/btw : I dont know why I have 2 forums accounts, but I logged in with the wrong one as I wrote the initial question. Sry.

[thorsten_tritts]

Nobody ?

I could need that really urgent, plz help if you have any ideas to realize. Thank you !

[oreeh]

Monitor them the same way you would monitor physical machines.

Install monitoring agents, monitor manually (not really recommended), ...

[thorsten_tritts]

Oreeh,

thx for your answer, but I thought/hoped by myself that there is a more comfortable way to realize that task. Can't be that hard to look into a virtual disk and check the usage, correct ?

[oreeh]

Can't be that hard to look into a virtual disk and check the usage, correct ?

Get the VMDK specs and write the code or wait until VMware builds it into VI/VC or use the APIs and code it.

I'm not aware of any tool to do this - someone correct me if I'm wrong

[bister]

As far as I remember there are values for this in the VC DB. Sorry, cannot check right now...

[thorsten_tritts]

As far as I remember there are values for this in the

VC DB. Sorry, cannot check right now...

Sounds really interesting, will check that tommorow morning asap.

[bister]

What sort of VM do you have? Windows? If so you could easily use WMI remotely to query disk space.

[canadait · Accepted solution]

Try this link

http://www.run-virtual.com/?page_id=145

Thanks Richard Garsthagen for this info!!

[thorsten_tritts]

What sort of VM do you have? Windows? If so you could

easily use WMI remotely to query disk space.

Mainly Windows, yes - but i'd like to use a plattform and condition-independent solution. I'am just the guy who does the hosting for the machines and have no access within the OS in some cases, so no possibilty to check some things in case of trouble.

[thorsten_tritts]

Try this link

http://www.run-virtual.com/?page_id=145

Thanks Richard Garsthagen for this info!!

Excellent ! Thats what I was looking for, thank you very much !

[canadait]

No problem. Thank him. Not me it was just in my book marks

[thorsten_tritts]

No problem. Thank him. Not me it was just in my book

marks

Will do that after I succesfully implemented that on my ESX boxes.