topic Re: VMware Hosts in HP SIM in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

VMware Hosts in HP SIM

LRA Cham — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:32:04 GMT

Hello,
we want to manage our VMWare Hosts with HP SIM. What kind of licenses do we need? Can we get a trial licens to test the functions?
Thanks for help.

Markus

Re: VMware Hosts in HP SIM

shocko — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:01:07 GMT

Yes, i think with the insight control dvd you get 30 days trial of Virtual Machine Managment i.e. VMM

I'd be interested in what you think of it. I tried it and didnt think it was worth the investment

Re: VMware Hosts in HP SIM

Tiwari_A — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:30:30 GMT

I would recommend using SIM only for monitoring, have SIM agent installed on your ESX servers and get it integrated with SNMP for any hardware related alerts.

Use VCS for ESX/VM management which is much convenient and useful.

Regards,
Ashutosh

Re: VMware Hosts in HP SIM

Rob Buxton — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:53:26 GMT

If you just want to monitor the hardware no licenses are required.
How you monitor them depends on whether you're running ESX or ESXi.
ESX uses agents, ESXi uses a WBEM add-on called the HP ESXi Offlince bundle.

HPSIM will also discover the guests without licences, but can do get some enhanced integration if you want to add the virtual machine manager.