-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The only thing you are going to miss if you use zenoss to monitor the VMs as well as ESX is some fairly off CPU usage metrics. You might get a VM that is saying it's using 100% CPU all the time, when it's not. Just the nature of the vmware beast.
mrcarl81 wrote: > Hey guys, we're looking at VMwares infrastructure products and how things > may/may not work with Zenoss. I have little to no experience with VMwares > products outside of what is free, so I would appreciate any advice. > >>From what I know of Zenoss core 2.1 (still using 2.0 so i haven't seen the >>new one), Zenoss can trend and monitor ESX server instance and that's about >>it. Looking at VMwares website, they have a product called Virtual Center. >>It appears to do what Zenoss does but with a couple bells and whistles just >>for the VMs. > > My question is: For those of you who have virtual or mostly virtual > infrastructures, how do you use Zenoss with that environment? Do you use a > combination of Zenoss and Virtual Center or do you add Virtual Center-like > features to Zenoss yourself? > > Personally, Zenoss has more capability and I'd prefer to integrate the entire > world into zenoss (this is my dream - one server room, one monitoring > system). It seems simple enough to add backend scripts to do what Virtual > Center claims to do for you, but I thought I was ask the wise voice of > experience before I do too much of my own thinking ;) > > So please, any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, > > Carl > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=13188#13188 > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHOmA5mq6OciM1v7cRAvDAAKChGgiIx8qgfeFoTWjUApbMvIf3hQCcCkIg bRstDPmN9Aeq6+ZvgKnT0r4= =0KK+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
