topic Re: HP SIM solution for Guest OS in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

HP SIM solution for Guest OS

Fahrenheit — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:43:25 GMT

I am aware of a solution for Host ESX's however,is there a HP SIM solution for *Guest* OS?

Thanks!

Re: HP SIM solution for Guest OS

David Claypool — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:53:06 GMT

There is very little information that is interesting about a guest since it is a synthetic device and nothing can "break." The information HP SIM is able to collect using standard interfaces such as WBEM/WMI is sufficient for the few things that are meaningful, such as how many CPUs were configured, how much memory, how much disk, and how much disk space.

Re: HP SIM solution for Guest OS

Rob Buxton — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:40:43 GMT

David,
Except when you go from a physical to a virtual server there are a number of monitoring things you do lose. Threshold alerts, service monitoring to name two.

And with ESX with no VCA there's no easy way of seeing firmware levels etc.

Probably just spoilt with HPSIM and physical servers and what we can monitor / have visibility of.