VMware vSphere Integration
Discover ESX Hosts, VMs, Datastores, and vSAN.
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The vCenter integration is an agentless solution that discovers the VMware® estate, and integrates vSphere metrics into the IPM platform, optimizing all VM workloads. This integration adds SAN NAS I/O intelligence and operational visibility to VMware deployments, enabling administrators to model and benchmark ESX™/ESXi™ server performance and optimally balance the deployment of virtual machines based on real-time measurements and I/O performance feedback. IPM complements vCenter™ by correlating over 100 vCenter metrics in real-time with actual I/O performance data measured by other Virtana probes and integrations.
Prerequisites
For HBA card-HBA port associations to be discovered, the following conditions must be met, in this order:
Cisco SAN Integration and Brocade SAN Integration need to be set up to monitor the same environment as Microsoft Hyper-V Integration, IBM PowerVM Integration, and VMware vSphere Integration.
A Cisco or Brocade SAN Integration full discovery (either scheduled or manual) must have completed prior to the Microsoft Hyper-V Integration, IBM PowerVM Integration, or VMware vSphere Integration full discovery (either scheduled or manual).
If this order is changed or these conditions are not met, HBA ports are displayed without their HBA card associations.
In order to discover vSAN entities and collect related metrics, you must configure vSAN Performance Manager on your vCenter instances that will be monitored by IPM.