Extract ESXi hosts information from vCenter

[Bogdan_B]

Is any possibility to pull info about ESXi hosts directly from the vCenter server ? ( like cpu, disk, networking, running vm's per host )

[lmiltchev]

You can run the VMware Monitoring Wizard agains each host on your vCenter server to get the info you need. You will see something like this:

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Does this answer your question?

[Bogdan_B]

Thank you for your answer. Not really, I would like to know if is any possibility to have all information ( like as your attachment ) about all ESXi hosts directly from the vCenter server

vCenter.jpg

Cheers,
bb

[lmiltchev]

You can create a hostgroup, and add all of ESXi hosts to it, so you can see them in one place. Another option is probably to group them in the BPI. Other that that, I don't think you can do this via the wizard itself.

[Bogdan_B]

What do you say about the Common Interface API? ( http://www.netways.de/en/de/produkte/na ... mware_esx/ ) - agentless host minitoring through vsphere manager , exactly what I needed.

Has anybody tried this?

[Brian_M]

Hello All,

Just a little clarification (Bogdan is my colleague):

Our VMware guys don't want to modify the base ESXi image due to support concerns with our hardware vendor so we're trying to pull the host performance information that's already in vCenter into Xi to prevent any type of agent installation on the hosts themselves. We're interested in getting the same information that the plugin gave us when we were allowed to do the host agent install (CPU load, memory / disk utilization / uptime / ping / bandwidth usage / etc.). It seems sensible to us that there would be a way to pull this from vCenter as all the information is already there but we're not sure how to proceed.

Thanks,
Brian

[scottwilkerson]

This is how our VMWare wizard works. It doesn't require installing agents on the ESXi servers.

[Bogdan_B]

Thank you for your comment. You can close this topic.

Cheers,
bb