VMware

VMware device driver implements VMware performance counter retrieval via VMware SOAP API.

To work with the latest version of VMware products, the latest version of Iotellect Server should be used.

Driver Information

Driver Plugin ID:

com.tibbo.linkserver.plugin.device.vmware

Global Settings

None defined.

User Level Settings

None defined.

Device Account Properties

Connection Properties

Property

Description

URI of the vSphere Service (case sensitive)

URL of a VMware web service.

Username

Username to use for authorization.

Password

Password to use for authorization.

Is SSO Enabled (only vCenter)

This option enables Single Sign On. It should be enabled for a vCenter connection and disabled otherwise (e.g. for an ESX server).

Skip SSL Certificate validation

Disables server certificate validity checking.

Device Assets

Assets are not supported by the driver.

Device Settings

  • Service. Provides overall information about VMware server.

  • Hypervisors. Contains hypervisor list.

  • VMs. Contains Virtual Machine list.

  • Counters. Contains a list of all performance counters.

Device Operations

  • Power On/Resume a VM. Starts or resumes a Virtual Machine.

  • Power Off a VM. Stops a Virtual Machine.

  • Reset a VM. Resets a Virtual Machine.

  • Suspend a VM. Suspends a Virtual Machine.

  • Retrieve Properties. This operation allows to retrieve specific property from the VMWare device. Has the following properties:

    • Type. Managed Object type.

    • Name. Name of the Managed Object instance.

    • Property Path. Property name or path of the property separated by dot.

Device Events

No events provided by the driver.

Connection Handling

This driver makes the device Online if connection with VMware server is successfully established.

Synchronization Details

Synchronization between Iotellect Server and VMware server includes reading of VMware counter table.

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