There are a lot of virtualization solutions available today. Their target markets and popularity differ, but for enterprise shops that can afford it, VMware solutions are quite widespread. Zabbix offers built-in support for monitoring VMware. This support includes the following:
- Monitoring vSphere and/or vCenter
- Automatically discovering all hypervisors
- Automatically discovering all virtual machines
Monitoring VMware doesn't involve any custom layers; Zabbix accesses the VMware API directly, and the monitoring of such an environment is very easy to set up.
In this chapter, the following topics will be covered:
- Preparing for VMware monitoring
- Automatic discovery
- Available metrics
- The underlying operation
- VMware LLD configuration