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Good VM monitoring tool

By Nigel Smith - Aug. 06, 2008

Hi - I have a few VMs running on VMware. I'm looking for a good tool that will help me monitor those machines. Do I have any options, outside of VMware's products - last i checked, they were not free.


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  1. By an anonymous user on Aug. 06, 2008

    Hyperic's VMware Monitoring & Management should do the trick - http://www.hyperic.com/products/managed/vmware-management.htm


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  2. By Nigel Smith on Aug. 07, 2008

    Thanks. Is this OSS? Any experience in using it? It seems that it contains a virtual appliane - do I need to have another machine managed just to manage other machines? Who manages the managers!


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  3. By Nigel Smith on Aug. 07, 2008

    Ok - the link you sent had a link for a virtual appliance, and that shipped with the Enterprise edition. That is not required. I have installed the basic Open Source Hyperic HQ, and it works well. The UI is a bit confusing, but it brings up the basic info on the running VMs, which is good.


    Thanks! This is getting me closer to managing a boat-load of VMs!


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  4. By Jesse Babson on Aug. 07, 2008

    If you are using VMware server, the tool that it comes with has a GUI that helps you control the machines. Is that what you want? I'm assuming you are looking for a web-based tool, though?


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  5. By an anonymous user on Aug. 08, 2008

    Try Groundworks (http://www.groundworkopensource.com/) - open source and very comprehensive


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  6. By an anonymous user on Aug. 10, 2008

    You can use vmware-cmd from the CLI and that will let you check on the status of your running machines, as well as the status of machines that are not up.


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  7. By Gleb Zgonikov on Aug. 29, 2008

    try to use jdk inner tool


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  8. By china long on Aug. 30, 2008

    try to use jdk inner tool


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  9. By qian donghui on Aug. 31, 2008

    Inner tool


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