You can configure email alerts under the alarms tab in virtual center too. Jeff
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Rankin, James R <kz2...@googlemail.com>wrote: > Excellent, cheers! > > Sent from my SR-71 Blackbird > ------------------------------ > *From: * Kim Longenbaugh <k...@colonialsavings.com> > *Date: *Wed, 9 Nov 2011 15:11:03 +0000 > *To: *NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > *ReplyTo: * "NT System Admin Issues" < > ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > *Subject: *RE: Quick query on alerting on ESXi > > ESXi acts the same as ESX, and the same alerts show up in the Virtual > Center client.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 09, 2011 8:12 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Quick query on alerting on ESXi**** > > ** ** > > Never done a lot of work with ESXi - so can anyone tell me whether it > behaves in the same way as full-fat ESX, as in when a CPU or memory usage > goes over threshold, does the host/guest get a little yellow or red alert > on it in the VMWare client that indicates there's an issue? 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