monitoring-vsphere.html.md.erb

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title: Monitoring VMs in vSphere
owner: Ops Manager
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This topic describes how to use the vSphere client to perform ongoing monitoring and alerting of VMs deployed by <%= vars.platform_name %>.

For a complete guide to monitoring <%= vars.platform_name %>, see [Monitoring <%= vars.platform_name %>](../monitoring/index.html).

## <a id="vsphere"></a>Monitoring in vSphere ##

To monitor VMs using the vSphere client:

1. Connect to a vCenter Server instance using the vSphere client.
1. Navigate to the **Hosts And Clusters** or **VMs And Templates** inventory view.
1. In the inventory tree, select a virtual machine.
1. Select the **Performance** tab from the content pane on the right.

VMware vSphere Server provides alarms that monitor VMs, as well as clusters,
hosts, data centers, datastores, networks, and licensing.
To view pre-configured alarms, including disk usage alarms, related to a
particular VM:

1. In the vSphere client, select the VM you want to monitor.
1. At the bottom left of the client window, click **Alarms**.
1. If a VM starts to run out of disk space, an alarm appears in the bottom
panel.