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can you explain why better?
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Primarily for emailing/notifying - any server outages, spikes, reporting of resources etc..<br />
we only have essentials though.
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Primarily for emailing/notifying - any server outages, spikes, reporting of resources etc..
we only have essentials though.

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vCenter Server can do all that, do you use vCenter Server ?
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vCenter Server can do all that, do you use vCenter Server ?

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just installed the appliance recently yes.
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just installed the appliance recently yes.

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So, does it not provide all your monitoring needs ?
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So, does it not provide all your monitoring needs ?

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don't think it does. &nbsp;looking at just monitoring host availability by way of email.<br />
does it provide any reporting?
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don't think it does.  looking at just monitoring host availability by way of email.
does it provide any reporting?

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vCenter Server will send emails if a host is down or disconnected.<br />
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What sort of reporting ?<br />
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Capacity? Performance ?<br />
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vCenter provides lots of performance graphs, you can print or export.<br />
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If you want reporting, look at Veeam One for FREE<br />
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<a href="http://www.veeam.com/virtual-server-management-one-free.html" rel="ugc">http://www.veeam.com/virtual-server-management-one-free.html</a>
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vCenter Server will send emails if a host is down or disconnected.

What sort of reporting ?

Capacity? Performance ?

vCenter provides lots of performance graphs, you can print or export.

If you want reporting, look at Veeam One for FREE

http://www.veeam.com/virtual-server-management-one-free.html [http://www.veeam.com/virtual-server-management-one-free.html]

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mainly to monitor the hardware in the machine so if a disk fails, psu.<br />
i see i can setup alerts fro resources which i good..
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mainly to monitor the hardware in the machine so if a disk fails, psu.
i see i can setup alerts fro resources which i good..

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anyone used this for monitoring hosts and VMs and if so any good??<br />
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ta
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anyone used this for monitoring hosts and VMs and if so any good??

ta

zabbix ?

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