Cluster of ESXi hosts not showing up

[scfigg]

We have a few different hosts with VMs nested under them - they show up properly in sexigraf. However, we have a vSAN setup as well, with 4 hosts that are clustered together, and have tons of VMs on them. I'm not sure how its being read differently than the regular hosts, but when I open panels such as 'full esx stats', i don't see those 4 hosts on there. These are our main hosts, so I really want to monitor cpu/memory on each host - but only thing I can find is just the the main vsphere server showing the combined stats. Not sure if this helps:

The 4 hosts under FX servers don't show up under "ESX" in the ESX views, which I want to see individual cpu/ram stats for:

[sexibytes]

It's by design actually, we only monitor hosts individually when they are not part of a cluster. Is it because you don't have drs enabled?

[scfigg]

That sucks. Thanks for the explanation. We don't have DRs setup, and it'll be a while before we do, because of budgetary reasons. 99% of our VMs are on those hosts, which I can partially monitor, but was hoping to see those 4 individual host stats. Oh well. Thanks for updating me!

[rschitz]

Actually your are not the only one to ask us this so we need to reconsider this choice.

CPU, RAM and network would be enough?

[scfigg]

Yes, that would be great. I mainly just need to see if the CPU/RAM is pegged on the host. Network would be a plus, but we're running into issues balancing them manually until we get some sort of advanced load balancing in the future. I'd love to see a bunch of history line graphs, or gauges for each host for CPU/RAM.

[rschitz]

Network is already collected and available in a separate dashboard, add cpu and ram will be very easy actually, stay tuned

[rschitz]

could you check this dashboard and let us know if this is enough? VMware_Cluster_Multi_ESX_LiteStats

[scfigg]

ok i sound stupid here - but how do i import that dashboard you listed? im looking at the dev branch but dont see any files or anything.

[scfigg]

ugh - sorry im a moron. I'm looking at it now. Looks good. Do you know if it's possible to do it on a percentage base? I'd like to see the CPU % and RAM % of each host so I can quickly glance and know if I'm running low on resources. (would be nice to have CPU and RAM separate - maybe as gagues or just separate graphs, scaled by 0-100% so I can see from a glance what the total consumption is)

[rschitz]

Do you know if it's possible to do it on a percentage base?

Not without a modification in the poller script, we'll figure something out and let you know ASAP

[rschitz]

[rschitz]