VMWare Infrastructure monitoring

[Sascha.Runschke at gfkl.com]

Hi all,

I've recently spent some time again on thinking about our VMWare 
Infrastructure (ESX clusters) and
its monitoring. I'd like to hear some opinions from the list, how others 
implemented the monitoring.

Currently my setup is as follows:

- 3 ESX clusters with 6 hosts each
- 100 VMs per cluster

My current approach:

The first cluster for example is defined as host "essesx-cluster" with 6 
services ESX01, ESX02, ESX03.....
Those services are check_icmp checks on the IP of the service console of 
each ESX host.
The hostcheck of the "essesx-cluster" host is then:

check_cluster --service -w 1 -c 1 -d 
$SERVICESTATEID:essesx-cluster:ESX01$,
$SERVICESTATEID:essesx-cluster:ESX02$,$SERVICESTATEID:essesx-cluster:ESX03$,
$SERVICESTATEID:essesx-cluster:ESX04$,$SERVICESTATEID:essesx-cluster:ESX05$,
$SERVICESTATEID:essesx-cluster:ESX06$ 

All VMs are childs of their corresponding cluster host.
The ESX hosts itself are not monitored as hosts, just as services of the 
cluster.

What do you think about that approach? Is it sophisticated or rather dumb? 
I have to admit that I am
a bit clueless right now, as it looks quite weird. Does anyone see any 
problems with that appoach?

/discuss

regards
Sascha

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