New Relic Infrastructure Integration for VMWare vSphere

Reports status and metrics for vSphere server

Disclaimer

New Relic has open-sourced this integration to enable monitoring of this technology. This integration is provided AS-IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OR SUPPORT, although you can report issues and contribute to this integration via GitHub. Support for this integration is available with an Expert Services subscription.

Requirements

vCenter SDK Endpoint enabled

Installation

Install the vsphere monitoring plugin

cp -R bin /var/db/newrelic-infra/custom-integrations/

cp vmware-esxi-definition.yml /var/db/newrelic-infra/custom-integrations/

cp vmware-esxi-config.yml.sample  /etc/newrelic-infra/integrations.d/

Configuration

In order to use the vmware-esxi integration it is required to configure vmware-esxi-config.yml.sample file. Firstly, rename the file to vmware-esxi-config.yml (drop the .sample extension to enable this integration).

Edit the vmware-esxi-config.yml configuration file to provide a unique instance name and valid values for (ESXi URL and login credentials) url, username and password.

Restart the infrastructure agent

sudo systemctl stop newrelic-infra

sudo systemctl start newrelic-infra

Troubleshooting

Check correct functioning of the plugin by executing it from the command line

Usage of ./bin/nr-vmware-esxi:
  -url string
      vSphere or vCenter SDK URL (default "https://vcenteripaddress/sdk")
  -username string
      The vSphere or vCenter username.
  -password string
      The vSphere or vCenter password.
  -datacenter string
      Datacenter name to query for metrics. {datacenter name|default|all}. `all` will discover all available datacenters. `default` will only query the default datacenter. (default "default")
  -config_file string
      (Optional) Config file containing list of metric names(overrides default config)
  -insecure
      Don't verify the server's certificate chain (default true)
  -metrics
      Publish metrics data.
  -pretty
      Print pretty formatted JSON.
  -verbose
      Print more information to logs.

Usage

You can view your data in Insights by creating your own custom NRQL queries. To do so use ESXHostSystemSample and ESXVirtualMachineSample event types.

Compatibility

• Supported OS: Linux
• VMware versions: Tested with v 6.7