I'm running the ESX monitor form http://www.it-eckert.de and there a lot of things that I like about it. As I'm sure most are doing, I monitor my VM's with the full Xymon client to pull back all the data; this application adds another 3 tests for your VM's. Vcpu, Vmem, and Vstatus, which I have mixed feelings about. It is however, nice to see what kind of resources you're using on your hypervisor per VM.
I had some install issues, which lead to my face hitting my palm, and I was able to get support for it from Thomas Eckert. He was even willing to SSH to my machine and look around, which is a big deal in my book. All in all, I really like it. It does a great job monitoring my ESX hosts and my Vcenter install. I have no complaints.
Jamison Maxwell
user-87d336c3dce6@xymon.invalid
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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Betsy Schwartz
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 4:28 PM
To: zGreenfelder
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Monitoring of ESX5i servers
We're using this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xymonesxi/
working OK for us. RHEL5 on the xymon server, Xymon 4.3.7, esxi 5.0.0
Played around with this but didn't get it to work:
http://www.it-eckert.de/final.html#Vmware-Monitor-Intro
Didn't try very hard, although the author offered help directly, as the first one seemed to be enough for what we needed at the moment.