VMware Hardware monitoring with Infrastructure SPI 2.0

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 Have you ever wondered how to keep a business critical application up and running on various machines and servers – all the time? Most of us are aware of the various factors at play required to make sure these business critical applications run as smoothly as possible without downtime of less than 1000th of a second or so.

But if you look at the microscopic level, the most important element that comes to mind is the importance of the hardware on which these applications are running. Hardware has been the key factor and the primary foundation for enabling these applications to run smoothly, whether you’re talking about a small mail server or large banking software. And as they say, if the foundation is strong and well maintained, the top level structures and pillars, which are the applications, will be as well.

So how do you maintain and monitor the hardware? If you’ve read this far, you’re in the right place to learn all about it!

Infrastructure Smart Plug-ins version 2.0 (aka: Infra SPI 2.0) has the perfect set of tools for IT to ensure that the supported hardware is always up and running properly. Infra SPI 2.0 provides this functionality as part of its monitoring capability with a set of hardware monitoring policies.

Monitoring VMware hardware:

These hardware monitoring policies enable you to monitor the health and status of your VMware ESX/ESXi host servers. They monitor the health of the hardware components of the VMware ESX/ESXi host servers and send alert messages to the HP Operation Manager console if the health is not normal.

These policies include support for vMA4.0 and vMA4.1 as well.

How does it work?

These policies obtain data from the VMware CIM SMASH/Server Management APIs.

VMware Hardware Monitoring Policies:

VI-VMwareHostEthernetPortHealthMonitor:

The VI-VMwareHostEthernetPortHealthMonitor policy monitors the health of the Ethernet port on VMware ESX/ESXi host servers. It sends an alert message to the HPOM console if the health of the port isn’t normal.

VI-VMwareHostSensorHealthMonitor:

The VI-VMwareHostSensorHealthMonitor policy monitors the health of the sensors associated with all the devices on VMware ESX/ESXi host servers. It sends an alert message to the HPOM console if the health of any sensor isn’t normal.

VI-VMwareHostChassisHealthMonitor:

The VI-VMwareHostChassisHealthMonitor policy monitors the health of the VMware ESX/ESXi host server’s chassis. It sends an alert message to the HPOM console if the health of the chassis isn’t normal.

VI-VMwareHostProcessorHealthMonitor:

The VI-VMwareHostProcessorHealthMonitor policy monitors the health of the processors running on the VMware ESX/ESXi host servers. It sends an alert message to the HPOM console if the health of any processor isn’t normal.

VI-VMwareHostFanHealthMonitor:

The VI-VMwareHostFanHealthMonitor policy monitors the health of the fans on VMware ESX/ESXi host servers. It sends an alert message to the HPOM console if the health of any fan isn’t normal.

The default policy group for these policies is:

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