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Question regarding esx 3.5i embedded and installable

ghostknight

I have several ESX3.5i hosts running. ESX3.5i has limited SNMP support and according to all I have read really only can send SNMP traps to a receiver. Personally I don't understand why a company like VMware would introduce a host platform with such limited SNMP support. Unless there's something I'm missing here which I really hope it is. Is anyone monitoring ESX3.5i hosts currently and how are you doing it? I don't want to drop 5k on VirtualCenter to be able to monitor something I should be able to monitor with a tool I already have purchased. That tool being Solarwinds. I really just want the basics here. CPU load of the host, memory utilization of the host, etc. There's a ton of ways to get this from the Virtual guests but that's not really what I'm looking for. Anyone here have any experience and wisdom to offer? Thanks!

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FormerMember

ESXi does not support SNMP. VMware is expecting you to buy Virtual Center. Without it, ESXi is fairly unmanageable.

ghostknight

That's really quite depressing. It is configurable to send traps to a receiver for alerting. I suppose I don't understand why this would be put in with no ability to do SNMP gets against the device itself. Another thing I'm not familiar with is the usage of CIM in a scenerio such as monitoring for a device. Vmware lists one of the features of 3i as being CIM compliant for monitoring solutions. Is this something that can be done with Solarwinds?

ghostknight

Also I'm not trying to manage the host I really just want to collect performance data. Make sense?

FormerMember

If just want performance data on the host, you'll need virtual center. If you want performance data on the VMs, you can do that by managing each VM. Set up traps on the host to send to Orion when certain problems appear.

ghostknight

Thanks. That's pretty much how we have it set up now. Have a nice day.

jdedmundson

After working with our server team along with a Dell Rep. they found that the firewall on the ESX servers did not have the proper exception.
And we are able to monitor the server itself.