Hello there,
First off let me say ESXI is amazing and flat out works awesome! I'm a nub when it comes to vmware and I just finished upgrading/migrating our entire company from a SBS2000 shop to Server 2008 standard VM's hosted in ESXI. Let me tell you, setting up the ESXI hosts was the easiest part of that whole ordeal lol. I'm looking for a tool that can monitor ESXI hosts and send alerts via email/sms and or potentially shut down VM's. For example: Say the AC unit dies on an extremely hot day on the weekend and our machines are overheating. Is there a tool that will alert via smtp/sms and initiate a shut down command to our VM's and then the host PMs? I'm finding it hard to grasp how this is possible because I don't see how software could run in a VM and be able to "access" the actual ESXI host hardware conditions.. At a minimum I'm looking for a tool that can send alerts via email/sms if there is a problem so I'd be able to address the issue before any damage occured.
We currently have two ESXI 4.0 hosts on Dell PowerEdge T610 Servers. I used the ESXI version specifically for Dell servers (if that helps).
Three virtual machines, two Server 2008 Standard and one Server 2008 R2. If you know of any tools that would help me achieve what I've mentioned above I would greatly appreciate it. I did a fair amount of searching on the web but did not find a solution to fit all our needs yet. It can be open source or payware.
Thanks for your time,
Dustin