Identifying VMWare Sessions

[Chris Hyatt]

I have several clients running W2K Server and Professional as guests on a VMWare GSX server. The sessions show up as unknown system types and a blank product name. I have the SNMP information on the sessions configured properly, but they still show up as unknown. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

[Rick Garland]

A thought I have is; is this bridged networking bewteen the host and the guest systems?

[Jon Ward]

Refer to http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=625480 on the current HP positioning.

[David Claypool]

Chris:

Although running GSX, there's a lot of information that you could benefit from in the "Best practices for running VMware ESX on ProLiant Servers" document located at http://www.hp.com/activeanswers --> Infrastructure Solutions --> VMware

The key to being able to identify your Windows guests is going to be WMI. With that enabled, HP SIM will be able to properly classify the system type (should show up as "VMware Virtual Platform") and gather configuration information (such as disk space used). We also have made a preliminary announcement about the ProLiant Essentials Virtual Machine Management Pack -- http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/management.html -- features and pricing to be announced.