Community Vmware management pack for vmware sphere 6.0

Mitch Luedy has created a very good management pack for monitoring VMware. He also was gracious enough to make it available to everyone for free.

Link to his github repository of the entire solution is here.

https://github.com/Mitch-Luedy/Community.VMware

This management pack uses PsSnapins in the powershell scripts. And vmware has ceased the use of snapins from 6.0.

 I have modified the scripts to use modules and this management pack will work on vsphere 6.0 now.

Link to that repository is here.

https://github.com/paragwaghmare/Community-Vmware

 

VMWare monitoring using SCOM

The management pack for monitoring VMware is here.

https://github.com/Mitch-Luedy/Community.VMware

It's a very good management pack.and also has clear instructions for installation.


But after installation you may find that the required objects are not being discovered.
This is largely due to the fact that the powershell scripts which are running the discoveries have this

Try {
    Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core
} Catch {
    Start-Sleep -Seconds 10
    Try {
        Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core
    } Catch {
        DefaultErrorLogging
        Exit
    }
}

If the mp was unsealed then maybe I could have updated the code and added import-module instead of this one. But to fix it  try this.

1. Install the VMware powercli version from this link.

https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=PCLI550&productId=352

VMware-PowerCLI-5.1.0-793510.exe

After installation run the commands in powershell and if you do not get any errors then you are good to go.