VMware ESXI Host Datastore connectivity

[Bhati]

Hi Team,

We are monitoring VMWare ESXI Hosts, and we can see datastore information under the ESXI host page, but is there a way to set up an alert if the datastore connectivity is lost.

[erh_inetum · Accepted solution]

Hi @Bhati ,

I think you can add the extension "VMware (remote monitoring)" from Hub to your environment to get metrics related to datastore information. And then you can create a metric event associating it to an alerting profile and a notification.

If you would haven´t DDUs availabled to add the extension, maybe you could use the builtin metric "builtin:cloud.vmware.hypervisor.availability" for creating a metric event to alert vmware connectivity.

Regards,

Elena.

[Bhati]

Hi Elena

Thanks for answering , could you tell me like Does Dynatrace generate availability alerts when my datastores become inactive, is that what you mean.

Regards,

Archana

[erh_inetum]

Hi Archana,

To Dynatrace triggers an alert you have to configure a metric event using the desired metric.
Here you have an example of metric event configuration:

On "Feature Sets" in this link https://www.dynatrace.com/hub/detail/vmware-remote-monitoring/ you can see the metrics related to datastore you can use.

I hope it helps you.

Regards,

Elena.