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  • 1.  VMWare host's power state

    Posted Jan 20, 2011 07:39 AM

    Hi all,

     

    A prospect is using Vcenter with Distributed Power Management (DPM) implemented where host(s) in a cluster can be put into a "standby" mode. He would like to know if Nimsoft VMware has a metric for this so that an alarm can be generated.

     

    Is there a way to gather a VM host's power state?


    I can only see "isconnected" as a metric for an ESX host but not power state.

     

    It seems a host's power state of "paused" = standby, according to this:
    http://support.hyperic.com/display/EVO/VMware+vSphere+Host+Metrics

     

    Please advise.

     

    Thank you.

     

    Arthur



  • 2.  Re: VMWare host's power state
    Best Answer

    Posted Jan 21, 2011 12:51 AM
    Hi Arthur,

    You may want to ask them if this standby mode is different than "IsInMaintenanceMode"?

    Note that on the link that you sent - Hyperic indicates that they are generating this value - and that it is not natively available via VCenter.


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    I see at the VM level we do support "PowerState":

    The current power state of the Virtual Machine (suspended=-1 | powerOff=0 | powerOn=1)

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    I would open a Case and ask the developer...