Monitoring disk capacities

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Hi all, I have a question concerning the monitoring options of 'left disk space'. I have a mixed environment: two VCs with 100 VMs and another 70 physical systems. What I did to monitor it all, was attached vFogl to both VCs and also installed the fglam on all physical systems and created the winSys agent for those phys. systems. What I recognized, was the fact, that there are different rules to monitor the VM and the systems with an agent. For VMs there is the rule ' VMW Virtual Machine Logical Drive Estimated Fill Time' and for the phys. system's agent the 'Capacity'. But I'd also like to monitor the 'Capacity' of Diskspace of my VMs. Do I have to install the fglam & agent on these VMs, too??? The background for this question is, that our IT support team needs to be informed (mail to cellphone), if there is an issue with less disk capacity. Thanks in advance for your help, Patrik

lmurphy1 · Accepted Answer

Patrik,
Check out the VMW Virtual Machine Logical Disk Utilization rule. Sounds like what you are looking for and it is already in the product.
VMware tools need to installed and up to date on the VMs for this to work as that is how the ESX host and VC get the OS level info from the VM.
If that is not possible, fglam and an OS agent is your option.
-Larry

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