I have been exploring monitoring my 4.0 environment for a little while now and I am just curious how other people are doing it...
Are you monitoring each ESX server and pulling VM monitoring from host? are you monitoring each VM itself and the ESX servers are generic linux hosts? or Both?
Are you using vcenter performance monitoring/alerting?
Are you using open source tools like cacti or nagios to monitor? How deep are you monitoring with them? snmp? traps? ssh scripts? pings?
Are you using third party tool to monitor ESX with VM's? If so what are you using?
I had a pretty good cacti environment when I was on ESX 3.5 and then all my graphs broke when we upgraded. Let me know. Just trying to figure out a direction to go here with vsphere monitoring. Thanks
PS I wanted to through a plug for ESXi too.. how are you guys tackling those as well..
-Dave