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VMware vSphere
The VMware vSphere plugin, available starting in Hyperic 4.4, manages vSphere Hosts and the VMs that run on them.
The vSphere plugin replaces the VMware Infrastructure Manager plugin available in previous versions of Hyperic. The VMware Infrastructure Manager plugin is deprecated in Hyperic 4.4.
Supported Versions and Requirements
The vSphere plugin supports vSphere v5.0, v4.0, and 4.1; ESX v5.0, v4.0, and 4.1; and ESXi v5.0, v4.0, and 4.1 The plugin requires HQ Agent v4.4 or later, and HQ API 3.2 or later.
Configuration Overview
The vSphere plugin makes use of the vCenter SDK to manage the hosts and VMs under vCenter management.
You install an HQ Agent on the platform where the vCenter server runs. The plugin uses SIGAR to discover the vCenter server.
To discover and manage vSphere Hosts and VMs, the plugin must be able to connect to the vCenter SDK port, so after vCenter is discovered, you must enable the plugin to connect to the SDK port by defining the SDK connection settings on the vCenter server's Configuration Properties page.
The plugin tries to connect to the SDK port specified on the vCenter instance's Configuration Properties page. Upon successful connection to vCenter, the HQ Agent reports the vSphere Hosts and VMs under vCenter management to the HQ Server, and starts reporting the availability of the vCenter, the vSphere Hosts it manages, and the VMs in each host.
If an HQ Agent is running in a VM, the agent managing the vCenter service will report all currently enabled metrics for the VM, not just availability.