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August 25th, 2015 06:00
VMs not listed under VMware ESX Servers in Device Tree
I'm running OME 2.0.1.222 with VMware ESXi 5.5. I've discovered all of our ESXi hosts and they are added to OME correctly. However, their Virtual Machine list isn't populated in the device tree. Such as the "WIN-OMEMS6" and "WIN-F390GRS1MPC" VMs in this picture:
My hosts don't list virtual machines here. If I click on the host itself, they are listed under "Virtual Machine Information." However, this seems to only report on their powered on/off status. I need to know if we lose pings from these virtual machines.
If I try to discover the VMs, they are added and listed under the "Unknown" device list, but I'd like them to be listed with their respective host machine. I'm guessing I'm just missing a step somewhere, but I can't seem to figure it out. The ESXi hosts were originally discovered with the SNMP and WS-MAN protocols.
DELL-Shivendra K
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August 30th, 2015 22:00
Hi, thanks for the query.
Virtual machines should be discovered using SNMP protocol to get properly grouped with the ESXi hosts. Please make sure that the VMs which are appearing under the "Unknown" device group and not under the ESXi host sub-group, are enabled for SNMP discovery. You can also use Dell Troubleshooting tool's SNMP test to verify this.
Hope this helps, do keep us posted!
DELL-Pupul M
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September 2nd, 2015 00:00
Hi,
For VMs and ESXi host correlation, the ESXi host needs to discovered using SNMP + WSMAN and the virtual machines need to discovered using SNMP. Make sure you are able to connect to the VMware MIB on ESXi host using SNMP. Enable both the proptocols for discovery.
Hope this helps.
merc235
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September 2nd, 2015 05:00
Thank you, that is exactly the issue I was having. I didn't put together that you needed to enable SNMP in the virtual guest itself. After setting that up and rediscovering the VMs, they started showing up in the Virtual Machines category in OME.
Thanks again!!