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May 19 2009 2:47PM GMT

Enhanced alarm reporting in VMware vCenter Server 4.0

Posted by: Eric Siebert

Eric Siebert, vSphere, Alarms, vCenter Server

The alarm settings in VMware vCenter Server 4.0 have been vastly improved in comparison to what’s available in VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3). The new alarms let you configure many custom alarm triggers and corresponding actions. VI3 alarms are very limited; you can only configure host and virtual machine alarm types and there are very few triggers that you can select from, as shown in the chart below.

Alarm Type	Triggers	Actions
Virtual Machine	VM CPU Usage	Send a notification email
	VM Network Usage	Send a notification trap
	VM Disk Usage	Run a script
	VM Memory Usage	Power on a VM
	VM State	Power off a VM
	VM Heartbeat	Suspend a VM
	VM CPU Usage	Reset a VM
	VM Network Usage	Send a notification email
Host	Host CPU Usage	Send a notification email
	Host Network Usage	Send a notification trap
	Host Disk Usage	Run a script
	Host Memory Usage
	Host State
	Host Hardware Health