Find a way to monitor main parts of the servers, such as main memory, processor and hard drive

Question

Hello   ,

we  have   a group  of  Esxi  Servers and  we want  to  find a way  to monitor the main parts of the server like memory , hard disk , processor without

purchasing the   solarwinds Virtual manager product or without  purchasing the Storage SRM product ?

in other words ,  "   is there  any  way  to work around  or monitoring the CPU , MEMORY , HDD without  buying  the  whole products "

could  we use NPM OR SAM  to monitor Esxi server " we would like to monitor basic parts only , such as memory , cpu and HDD "

i.abubkre · Answer

thanks ,,

I thinks these are answers for the first part of the Question ,  but what about  storage ??

could we monitor the SAN disks basically  without installing SRM ???  and How

mesverrum · Answer

Yep, basically vman adds all the datastore capabilities and forecasting, basic host metrics is already considered to be a feature of NPM/SAM

FormerMember · Answer

You get VIM as standard. So as long as snmp is setup you get some pretty good info! 
 it allows you to monitor the cpu's, memory, network traffic, storage, vm's, consumption of resources, and all the hardware.

I haven't got vman at this customer but we use vim every day to keep an eye on the limited virtual infrastructure here.