New media type. VMware. 9. Virtual machine monitoring. Overview Support of monitoring VMware environments is available in Zabbix starting with version 2.2.0. Zabbix can use low-level discovery rules to automatically discover VMware hypervisors and virtual machines and create hosts to monitor them, based on pre-defined host prototypes. The default dataset in Zabbix offers several ready-to-use templates for monitoring VMware vCenter or ESX hypervisor. The minum required VMware vCenter or vSphere version is 4.1. Details The virtual machine monitoring is done in two steps. Data gathering from a single VMware service is always done by a single collector process and can't be shared over multiple collector processes. Configuration For virtual machine monitoring to work, Zabbix should be compiled with the --with-libxml2 and --with-libcurl compilation options.
The following configuration file options can be used to tune the Virtual machine monitoring: Discovery Discovery rule key in the above screenshot is vmware.hv.discovery[{$URL}]. Host prototypes Example. Virtual machine discovery key fields. Best practices. Discovery Rules. Monitoring VMware.