Description

This connector enables disk monitoring for ESX servers v4 and higher through the VMware ESX4i agent's VMware classes.

This connector is superseded by:

• Director61Linux^[2]
• ServerviewWBEM^[3]
• Director5Linux^[4]
• DellOpenManage^[5]
• Director52Linux^[6]
• Director52ServeRAIDLinux^[7]
• CpMgServNT^[8]
• HPInsightwbem^[9]

This connector supersedes:

• VMwareESXiDisksIPMI^[10]

enterprise^[11] hardware^[12] linux^[13] storage^[14] vmware^[15]

Target

Typical platform: VMware ESXi

Operating systems: Out-Of-Band, Linux

Prerequisites

Leverages: WBEM

Technology and protocols: WBEM

Examples

metricshub HOSTNAME -t management -c +VMwareESXiDisksStorage --wbem -u USER

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: management
        connectors: [ +VMwareESXiDisksStorage ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          wbem:
            protocol: https
            port: 5989
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria

The VMware ESXi - Disks (VMware) connector will be automatically activated, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The WBEM query below to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: root/cimv2
  • WQL Query: SELECT MajorVersion FROM VMware_HypervisorSoftwareIdentity
  • Result contains: ^\\([1-9][0-9]\\|[4-9]\\) (regex)
• The WBEM query below to the managed host succeeds:
  • Namespace: root/cimv2
  • WQL Query: SELECT DeviceID,Caption,NumberOfBlocks,BlockSize FROM VMware_StorageExtent

Metrics