Is there any way to detect a VM moving from one ESX host to another ESX host?

lchance

I'm trying to monitor only ESX hosts which support VMs specific to an line-of-business application. I base this from the ESX host showing in the Node Details view for that VM.

I understand that two of these VMs can potentially move from their Orion-discovered ESX host (shown in the Node Details) to any of our other ESX hosts set within a tier cluster.

That is,

MyAPP-server1 - Virtual Machine hosted by ESX-HOST-20

may get relocated by vSphere services to another ESX host like this,

MyAPP-server1 - Virtual Machine hosted by ESX-HOST-12

So my question is this, is there a way to 'detect' this subtle change in Orion if vSphere needed to move the VM?

mavturner

lchance, are you logging any events from your hosts or vSphere? Maybe there is a way to capture the vMotion as part of the syslog message?

Mav