HP SIM, VMM and Disk Thresholds

[Declan Watts]

I have several VM Hosts - DL360 G4s running Linux & VMware ESX Server. Each has several VMguests - Windows Server 2003 o/s on each.
Is it possible to monitor the Disks for these VM Guests?
If so, how is it done? Do I need SIM Agents deployed on the VM Guests?
Setting thresholds for the VM Hosts was straightforward, but even with the thresholds set ridiculously low, I do not see any events for disk space. I see events for other thresholds.
Any ideas?

[Rob Buxton · Accepted solution]

Not using the standard HP tools. I believe some have used the HP Desktop agents on guests.

My approach is to use enable WBEM for the guests and have a daily data collection task.
I then run a weekly report that reports on any servers, physical or virtual, that have disks over 80% full. So it's not threshold management but I at least have some visibility of growth.

I'm hoping that VMM will develop to include a bit more disk threshold capability.

[Ole Thomsen_1]

I'm also a bit disappointed that disk threshold is not yet a part of VMM - not to mention that I don't use it at the moment due to other issues :-)

[Rider]

You can go for Performance Management Pack (PMP). Which has option to set threshoulds and also the machines can be monitored.

[Rob Buxton]

PMP provides performance reporting, it doesn't provide capacity threshold reporting.

I've also not got PMP to work on our VMware hosts without VMM and like Ole I've got VMM disabled at the moment.

[karim h]

HP -

When will you add this disk threshold functionality to Virtual Machines?