![]() In most cases the usability is better but re-training yourself to use the new interface will take time. The web client, which you should push to be your standard management interface for vSphere, is very different in it’s usability. In this two-part series, I’d like to capitalize on that knowledge of vSphere resources and discuss monitoring virtual machines in vSphere (part of which will be resource monitoring, using the vSphere web client). In the second article, VMware vSphere Resource Management Configuration Basics, I talked about how to configure reservations, resource pools, shares, and limits. The first article, Getting Started with Resource Management in VMware vSphere provided the background on the difference between the physical and virtual datacenter, vsphere resource types, resource providers, resource consumers, and why it’s so important to manage your resources. ![]() In my last two articles, I discussed resource management in vSphere. Datastore Disk Provisioned (%) (set yellow trigger to 100%, where the provisioned disk space meets or exceeds the capacity.If you would like to be notified when David Davis releases the next part in this article series please sign up to our Real-Time Article Update newsletter.Optionally, define email actions on some of these. Virtual Machine Consolidation Needed status (triggered if a Delete Snapshot task failed for a VM)Ĭonsider creating these custom alarms on the folders where critical VMs.Health status monitoring (triggers if changes occur to overall vCenter Service status).Cannot connect to storage (triggered if host loses connectivity to a storage device).Datastore usage on disk (Red state is triggered at 85% usage).Storage DRS Recommendation (if the decision is made to configure Storage DRS in a Manual Mode).Insufficient vSphere HA failover resources.vSphere HA virtual machine failover failed.Host hardware power status (HW Health tab indicates UpperCriticalThreshold = 675 Watts, UpperThresholdFatal=702 Watts).Host connection and power state (alerts if host connection state = “not responding” and host power state is NOT = Standby).Unless otherwise stated, configure the Action to occur only when the alarm changes to the Red state. I consider each of these alarms to be unexpected and worthy of immediate attention if they trigger in this specific vSphere environment. Also, in this scenario, the customer planned to configure Storage DRS in Manual mode, instead of Automatic mode.Ĭonfigure the Actions for the following pre-defined alarms to send email notifications. In this scenario, the customer does not use an SNMP management system, so we decided to use the option to send emails to the administration team, instead of sending SNMP traps. ![]() Here I am proving a sample of the recommendations that I provided to a customer in Los Angeles, whose major focus is to ensure high availability. Although my recommendations are unique for each customer, they tend to have many similarities. Frequently, I recommend creating some custom alarms and configuring specific actions on some alarms to meet customer needs. As part of many of my vSphere related professional services engagements, such jumpstarts, designs, upgrades and health-checks, I typically address the alarms provided by VMware vCenter Server.
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