Comments on: Monitor ESX datastores using Hostmonitor

By: Arnim van Lieshout

Arnim van Lieshout — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:11:22 +0000

Thanks for sharing.

By: klinok

klinok — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:51:27 +0000

Thanks!!! all works, i use it for test linux volume: /
but litle change for RedHat:
Linux) LUNFREE=`df -h | grep $1 | awk ‘{print $3}’ | head -2`
G) LUNFREE=`echo $LUNFREE | awk ‘{printf “%d”,$1 * 1024}’`

By: Arnim van Lieshout

Arnim van Lieshout — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:38:29 +0000

I think this should work for ESX4 too. Can’t test this myself now. Just give it a try.
Possibly you’ll need to modify the monitor script.
However it will only work on classic ESX and not on ESXi as you’re unable to install the RMA on ESXi.

Keep in mind that ESX4.1 is the last version of classic ESX available. All new versions will only be ESXi hypervisor.

By: Frederik Eggers

Frederik Eggers — Tue, 31 May 2011 15:25:43 +0000

Hi,

it´s possible to use this how-to for an ESX 4 Server?

Frederik

By: Arnim van Lieshout

Arnim van Lieshout — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:20:04 +0000

Hi Ludo,

It looks like the code gets crippled during the copy & paste process.
I’ve updated my post. You can now savely copy & paste the code.
Also don’t forget to update the rma service script in /etc/init.d if you have used this.

I run the same code on ESX3.5 U4 successfully, so there’s nothing wrong with the code itself.
Let me know if it solved your problem.

-Arnim

By: ludo

ludo — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:46:32 +0000

Hi,
I have tested your script on ESX 3.5 update 4 but i have this error :
[root@frdev-esx1 root]# ./test.sh VMFS1 20
awk: cmd. line:1:
awk: cmd. line:1: ^ invalid char ” in expression
ScriptRes:Bad:Script Error

this is a result of ‘vdf -h’ :
[root@frdev-esx1 root]# vdf -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 4.9G 1.6G 3.0G 35% /
/dev/sda1 99M 26M 69M 28% /boot
none 132M 0 132M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda6 2.0G 139M 1.7G 8% /var/log
/vmfs/devices 10.0T 0 10.0T 0% /vmfs/devices
/vmfs/volumes/4979def8-2a5d1b90-1703-001aa02cd64e
264G 30G 233G 11% /vmfs/volumes/frdev-esx1:storage1
/vmfs/volumes/49cd44b3-9bad0908-dce0-001aa02cd64e
1.5T 1.1T 399G 73% /vmfs/volumes/VMFS1
/vmfs/volumes/49cd48d3-49534128-0583-001aa02cd64e
1.6T 1.5T 135G 91% /vmfs/volumes/VMFS2

please can you help me ?