adamjg
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Windows disk space monitoring

Hi all, I'm looking to create an alert for disk space on Windows VMs. To break this down to the easiest way possible, how do I generate an symptom of free space on individual drives on a Windows server? (ex. C:, D:, E:, etc.)  Caveats:

- I'm not using the endpoint agent.  This is another discussion, but I've told VMware that as long as it is based on java, we're not using it.

- vROps used to have a metric for Guest File System Free (GB) but they removed it for unknown reasons.

- Super metrics don't seem to work across all drives. Example: I can create a super metric for the C: drive, but the "evaluate on instanced metric" button in the symptom definition doesn't allow this to work across multiple drives.  We have VMs with 1 drive and VMs with 20 drives, so creating 20 different super metrics and figuring out what servers to apply what metric to is not an option.

Most other monitoring products do this OOTB. For some reason VMware removed this from vROps.  If anyone has an idea of how to do this, please let me know.  Thanks!