Hello all,
I am a windows admin in a windows shop. But we run a medium size VMware ESX 5.0 - 5.1 farm.
We use mostly Quest BBMon and Quest Foglight to monitor all our stuff, but we have never monitored our ESX hosts before. Well, recently one of them lost a bunch of disks and got stupid (but did not crash). So Now I need to setup some monitoring. My budget is zero.
What do you use to monitor your ESX hosts?? Disks and processes??
I know I can monitor connectivity with BBMon and no client. But the client install for BBMon is not supported by either VMware or Quest. And when I tried to force it on a 5.1 host, things started to turn a little ugly (recall, I am NOT an *nix admin). Please help!