VMware Monitoring
Amount of bandwidth consumed for monitoring VMware resources
Learn the minimum bandwidth usage when monitoring VMware resources, both between your On-Premise Poller and the VMware environment and between your On-Premise Poller and Site24x7. Bandwidth consumption depends on the number of resources in the ...
Licensing for VMware monitors
For VMware components, the pricing is as follows: Monitor Licensing vCenter Free VMware Cluster Consumes two basic monitor licenses ESX/ESXi Host Consumes two basic monitor licenses ESX/ESXi Hardware Weightage-based [Consumes one basic monitor ...
Troubleshooting Steps for VMware Monitors
Virtual Machine To troubleshoot the VM issues, check: The prerequisites for vMotion to be captured by Site24x7. Whether the VM is deleted in vSphere. Whether the VM name was changed in your environment. Whether the associated ESXi or vCenter is ...
Bulk action to auto-discover VMware resources
You can enable autodiscovery to monitor all the VMware virtual machines (VMs), datastores, resource pools, and snapshots in bulk at the associated VMware ESX/ESXi host level. Simply choose Yes next to your preferred resources and select the VMware ...
Where are the VMware snapshots located?
When you take a snapshot, you capture the state of the virtual disk and memory. These states are captured in separate files that reside with the VM's base files. Among the many files that are created, those that are space-related are important, and ...
Different types of polling for VMware resources
Site24x7 supports monitoring for different VMware resources like vCenter, clusters, ESX/ESXi host, virtual machines (VMs), datastores, resource pools, and snapshots using On-Premise Poller. You can monitor the discovered VMware child resources using ...
Understanding VMware VM and guest OS metrics
Log in to your Site24x7 account, and navigate to VMware > Virtual Machine. Click on any desired VM name. Metrics from the VM monitor The metrics that you view are your VM's occupancy in its parent ESX host. Using Memory Utilization as an example, the ...
Updating VMware credentials in bulk
Credentials are stored encrypted in the credential profile, and you can add or edit the credentials in the credential profile. To update and associate VMware credentials in bulk to existing monitors and their child monitors: Go to VMware > Update ...
Prerequisites for VMware VDI Monitoring
Site24x7 monitors VMware Horizon as a part of VMware virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) monitoring. Site24x7 collects VMware VDI metrics using Windows On-Premise Poller via the PowerShell scriptlets available in VMware, known as the VMware ...
VMware privileges required for VMware monitoring using Site24x7
To monitor different VMware resources using Site24x7, you must have a few privileges enabled. For users with an Administrator role, all privileges will be available. If you have a Read Only role, you'll need additional privileges to perform certain ...
Comparison between Site24x7 VMware Monitoring and VM monitoring using Site24x7 server agent
Site24x7 VMware Monitoring capabilities Site24x7 VMware monitoring is agentless. An On-Premise Poller acts as a probe to collect data and sends it to Site24x7. With Site24x7 VMware Monitoring, you will be able to: Monitor vCenter Monitor VMware ...
VMware datastore monitoring and associated ESX/ESXi hosts
While monitoring VMware datastores, Site24x7 displays the number of VMware ESX/ESXi hosts associated with that datastore. This number denotes the number of associated hosts that are monitored by Site24x7 and are enabled with VMware datastore ...
Excluding a VM from auto discovery
While adding an ESX/ESXi host for monitoring, you can choose to auto-discover the virtual machines running on that host. These machines will be added automatically as individual monitors in the Site24x7 web client and their metrics collected. ...
Prerequisites for vMotion to be captured by Site24x7
Both the source and the destination VMware ESX/ESXi host monitors must be monitored using the same Site24x7 On-Premise Poller and should be in Active state, i.e. the monitor should not be suspended. The source and the destination VMware ESX/ESXi host ...