I am trying to find the easiest way to receive alerts on datastore usage for my ESX 4.1 hosts. I have virtual center. My hosts are connected to Equallogic SAN's, and I would like to somehow get, at a minimum, free space on each LUN into SolarWinds Orion NPM 10.1 so that I can dispatch email and SMS alerts.
I have not been having much luck thus far finding a solution, which includes SolarWind's own storage monitoring utility. Any direction would be greatly appreciated.
Best Answer
Chopper got it right -
In VCenter, go to the Alarms tab, then click on definitions. Double click the entry called:
"Datacenter Usage on disk"
On the Actions tab, click Add, and a new action will be created. Hit the drop down for the new action, and change it to "send a notification trap".
Comes in handy, if you don't have any other monitoring solution, or in your case, are having problems with the current one.