VMware VM Monitoring
Track the performance of your virtual environment and gain exhaustive reports on disk I/O, datastore, network and memory of virtual servers. You will need to add an ESX/ESXi host first, and this will in turn discovered the VMs mapped to it.
Prerequisites:
- Site24x7 On-Premise Poller.
- VMware Read Only or Administrator roles along with Interact.PowerOff, Interact.PowerOn, and Interact.Reset privileges for the connected ESX/ESXi host. Learn how to enable these privileges.
Adding a VMware VM Monitor
- Log into your Site24x7 account.
- Go to the Admin tab and select ESX/ESXi Host (under Virtualization) in Add Monitor page.
- Follow the steps provided in this link to add an ESX/ESXi host and discover the VMware resources.
- Make sure to set the toggle to Yes for Virtual Machines under the field Discover and Auto Add Resources.
- Click Save.
All the Virtual Machines mapped to the ESX/ESXi host will be discovered and you can view the monitors by navigating to VMware > Virtual Machine.
Click on the hamburger icon corresponding to a monitor's name and click Edit to edit the configuration. You can also associate an IT automation template to stop, start or reboot VMware VM monitors.