This template is for Zabbix version: 7.0

Also available for: 6.4 6.2 6.0 5.4 5.0 4.0

Source: https://git.zabbix.com/projects/ZBX/repos/zabbix/browse/templates/app/vmware?at=release/7.0

VMware

Overview

This template set is designed for the effortless deployment of VMware vCenter and ESX hypervisor monitoring and doesn't require any external scripts.

The template "VMware Guest" is used in discovery and normally should not be manually linked to a host.
The template "VMware Hypervisor" can be used in discovery as well as manually linked to a host.

For additional information, please see Zabbix documentation on VM monitoring.

Requirements

Zabbix version: 7.0 and higher.

Tested versions

This template has been tested on:

VMware 6.0, 6.7, 7.0, 8.0

Configuration

Zabbix should be configured according to the instructions in the Templates out of the box section.

Setup

Compile Zabbix server with the required options (--with-libxml2 and --with-libcurl)
Set the StartVMwareCollectors option in the Zabbix server configuration file to "1" or more
Create a new host
If you want to use a separate user for monitoring, make sure that the user is a member of the SystemConfiguration.ReadOnly and vStatsGroup groups Set the host macros (on the host or template level) required for VMware authentication:

{$VMWARE.URL}
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}

Link the template to the host created earlier

Note: To enable discovery of hardware sensors of VMware hypervisors, set the macro {$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY} to the value true on the discovered host level.

Additional resources:

How to create a custom performance counter
How to get all supported counters and generate a path for the custom performance counter

Macros used

Name	Description	Default
{$VMWARE.URL}	VMware service (vCenter or ESX hypervisor) SDK URL (https://servername/sdk).
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}	VMware service user name.
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}	VMware service `{$USERNAME}` user password.
{$VMWARE.PROXY}	Sets the HTTP proxy for script items. If this parameter is empty, then no proxy is used.
{$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY}	Set "true"/"false" to enable or disable monitoring of hardware sensors.	`false`
{$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY.NAME.MATCHES}	Sets the regex string of hardware sensor names to be allowed in discovery.	`.*`
{$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY.NAME.NOT_MATCHES}	Sets the regex string of hardware sensor names to be ignored in discovery.	`CHANGE_IF_NEEDED`
{$VMWARE.VM.POWERSTATE}	Possibility to filter out VMs by power state.	`poweredOn\|poweredOff\|suspended`
{$VMWARE.DATASTORE.SPACE.CRIT}	The critical threshold of the datastore free space.	`10`
{$VMWARE.DATASTORE.SPACE.WARN}	The warning threshold of the datastore free space.	`20`

Items

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Get alarms	Get alarm status.	Simple check	vmware.alarms.get[{$VMWARE.URL}]
Event log	Collect VMware event log. See also: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/7.0/manual/config/items/preprocessing/examples#filtering_vmware_event_log_records	Simple check	vmware.eventlog[{$VMWARE.URL},skip]
Full name	VMware service full name.	Simple check	vmware.fullname[{$VMWARE.URL}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
Version	VMware service version.	Simple check	vmware.version[{$VMWARE.URL}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
Get Overall Health VC State	Gets overall health of the system. This item works only with VMware vCenter versions above 6.5.	Script	vmware.health.get
Overall Health VC State error check	Data collection error check.	Dependent item	vmware.health.check Preprocessing JSON Path: `$.error` ⛔️Custom on fail: Set value to Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `3h`
Overall Health VC State	VMware Overall health of system. One of the following: - Gray: No health data is available for this service. - Green: Service is healthy. - Yellow: The service is in a healthy state, but experiencing some level of problems. - Orange: The service health is degraded. The service might have serious problems. - Red: The service is unavailable, not functioning properly, or will stop functioning soon. - Not available: The health status is unavailable (not supported on the vCenter or ESXi side).	Dependent item	vmware.health.state Preprocessing JSON Path: `$.health` Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `3h`

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
Failed to get Overall Health VC State	Failed to get data. Check debug log for more information.	`length(last(/VMware/vmware.health.check))>0`	Warning
Overall Health VC State is not Green	One or more components in the appliance might be in an unusable status and the appliance might soon become unresponsive.	`last(/VMware/vmware.health.state)>0 and last(/VMware/vmware.health.state)<>6`	Average

LLD rule VMware alarm discovery

Name Description Type Key and additional info

VMware alarm discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware alarm discovery	Discovery of alarms.	Dependent item	vmware.alarms.discovery Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1h`

Discovery of alarms.

Dependent item

vmware.alarms.discovery

Preprocessing

Discard unchanged with heartbeat: 1h

Item prototypes for VMware alarm discovery

Name Description Type Key and additional info

{#VMWARE.ALARMS.NAME}

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
{#VMWARE.ALARMS.NAME}	VMware alarm status.	Dependent item	vmware.alarms.status["{#VMWARE.ALARMS.KEY}"] Preprocessing JSON Path: `$.[?(@.key == "{#VMWARE.ALARMS.KEY}")].key.first()` ⛔️Custom on fail: Set value to: `-1` Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1h`

VMware alarm status.

Dependent item

vmware.alarms.status["{#VMWARE.ALARMS.KEY}"]

Preprocessing

JSON Path: $.[?(@.key == "{#VMWARE.ALARMS.KEY}")].key.first()
⛔️Custom on fail: Set value to: -1
Discard unchanged with heartbeat: 1h

Trigger prototypes for VMware alarm discovery

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
{#VMWARE.ALARMS.NAME}	{#VMWARE.ALARMS.DESC}	`last(/VMware/vmware.alarms.status["{#VMWARE.ALARMS.KEY}"])<>-1`	Not_classified

LLD rule VMware cluster discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware cluster discovery	Discovery of clusters.	Simple check	vmware.cluster.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]

Item prototypes for VMware cluster discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Status of [{#CLUSTER.NAME}] cluster	VMware cluster status. One of the following: - Gray: Unknown; - Green: OK; - Yellow: It might have a problem; - Red: It has a problem.	Simple check	vmware.cluster.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{#CLUSTER.NAME}]

Name

Description

Type

Key and additional info

Status of [{#CLUSTER.NAME}] cluster

VMware cluster status. One of the following:

- Gray: Unknown;

- Green: OK;

- Yellow: It might have a problem;

- Red: It has a problem.

Simple check

vmware.cluster.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{#CLUSTER.NAME}]

Trigger prototypes for VMware cluster discovery

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
The [{#CLUSTER.NAME}] status is Red	A cluster enabled for DRS becomes invalid (red) when the tree is no longer internally consistent, that is, when resource constraints are not observed. See also: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-resource-management/GUID-C7417CAA-BD38-41D0-9529-9E7A5898BB12.html	`last(/VMware/vmware.cluster.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{#CLUSTER.NAME}])=3`	High
The [{#CLUSTER.NAME}] status is Yellow	A cluster becomes overcommitted (yellow) when the tree of resource pools and virtual machines is internally consistent but the cluster does not have the capacity to support all the resources reserved by the child resource pools. See also: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-resource-management/GUID-ED8240A0-FB54-4A31-BD3D-F23FE740F10C.html	`last(/VMware/vmware.cluster.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{#CLUSTER.NAME}])=2`	Average	Depends on: The [{#CLUSTER.NAME}] status is Red

LLD rule VMware datastore discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware datastore discovery	Discovery of VMware datastores.	Simple check	vmware.datastore.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]

Item prototypes for VMware datastore discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Average read IOPS of the datastore [{#DATASTORE}]	IOPS for a read operation from the datastore (milliseconds).	Simple check	vmware.datastore.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},rps]
Average write IOPS of the datastore [{#DATASTORE}]	IOPS for a write operation to the datastore (milliseconds).	Simple check	vmware.datastore.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},rps]
Average read latency of the datastore [{#DATASTORE}]	Amount of time for a read operation from the datastore (milliseconds).	Simple check	vmware.datastore.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},latency]
Free space on datastore [{#DATASTORE}] (percentage)	VMware datastore free space (percentage from the total).	Simple check	vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},pfree]
Total size of datastore [{#DATASTORE}]	VMware datastore space in bytes.	Simple check	vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1h`
Average write latency of the datastore [{#DATASTORE}]	Amount of time for a write operation to the datastore (milliseconds).	Simple check	vmware.datastore.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},latency]

Trigger prototypes for VMware datastore discovery

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
[{#DATASTORE}]: Free space is critically low	Datastore free space has fallen below the critical threshold.	`last(/VMware/vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},pfree])<{$VMWARE.DATASTORE.SPACE.CRIT}`	High
[{#DATASTORE}]: Free space is low	Datastore free space has fallen below the warning threshold.	`last(/VMware/vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},pfree])<{$VMWARE.DATASTORE.SPACE.WARN}`	Warning	Depends on: [{#DATASTORE}]: Free space is critically low

LLD rule VMware hypervisor discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware hypervisor discovery	Discovery of hypervisors.	Simple check	vmware.hv.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]

LLD rule VMware VM discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware VM discovery	Discovery of guest virtual machines.	Simple check	vmware.vm.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]

VMware Guest

Macros used

Name	Description	Default
{$VMWARE.URL}	VMware service (vCenter or ESX hypervisor) SDK URL (https://servername/sdk).
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}	VMware service user name.
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}	VMware service `{$USERNAME}` user password.
{$VMWARE.VM.FS.PFREE.MIN.WARN}	VMware guest free space threshold for the warning trigger.	`20`
{$VMWARE.VM.FS.PFREE.MIN.CRIT}	VMware guest free space threshold for the critical trigger.	`10`
{$VMWARE.VM.FS.TRIGGER.USED}	VMware guest used free space trigger. Set to "1"/"0" to enable or disable the trigger.	`0`

Items

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Snapshot consolidation needed	Displays whether snapshot consolidation is needed or not. One of the following: - True; - False.	Simple check	vmware.vm.consolidationneeded[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing JavaScript: `The text is too long. Please see the template.` Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
Snapshot count	Snapshot count of the guest VM.	Dependent item	vmware.vm.snapshot.count Preprocessing JSON Path: `$.count` Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
Get snapshots	Snapshots of the guest VM.	Simple check	vmware.vm.snapshot.get[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
Snapshot latest date	Latest snapshot date of the guest VM.	Dependent item	vmware.vm.snapshot.latestdate Preprocessing JSON Path: `$.latestdate` Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VM state	VMware virtual machine state. One of the following: - Not running; - Resetting; - Running; - Shutting down; - Standby; - Unknown.	Simple check	vmware.vm.state[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing JavaScript: `The text is too long. Please see the template.` Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1h`
VMware Tools status	Monitoring of VMware Tools. One of the following: - Guest tools executing scripts: VMware Tools is starting. - Guest tools not running: VMware Tools is not running. - Guest tools running: VMware Tools is running.	Simple check	vmware.vm.tools[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},status] Preprocessing JavaScript: `The text is too long. Please see the template.` Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1h`
VMware Tools version	Monitoring of the VMware Tools version.	Simple check	vmware.vm.tools[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},version] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `12h`
Cluster name	Cluster name of the guest VM.	Simple check	vmware.vm.cluster.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
Number of virtual CPUs	Number of virtual CPUs assigned to the guest.	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
CPU ready	Time that the VM was ready, but unable to get scheduled to run on the physical CPU during the last measurement interval (VMware vCenter/ESXi Server performance counter sampling interval - 20 seconds).	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.ready[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
CPU usage	Current upper-bound on CPU usage. The upper-bound is based on the host the VM is current running on, as well as limits configured on the VM itself or any parent resource pool. Valid while the VM is running.	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
Datacenter name	Datacenter name of the guest VM.	Simple check	vmware.vm.datacenter.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
Hypervisor name	Hypervisor name of the guest VM.	Simple check	vmware.vm.hv.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
Ballooned memory	The amount of guest physical memory that is currently reclaimed through the balloon driver.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.ballooned[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
Compressed memory	The amount of memory currently in the compression cache for this VM.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.compressed[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
Private memory	Amount of memory backed by host memory and not being shared.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.private[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
Shared memory	The amount of guest physical memory shared through transparent page sharing.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.shared[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
Swapped memory	The amount of guest physical memory swapped out to the VM's swap device by ESX.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.swapped[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
Guest memory usage	The amount of guest physical memory that is being used by the VM.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.usage.guest[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
Host memory usage	The amount of host physical memory allocated to the VM, accounting for the amount saved from memory sharing with other VMs.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.usage.host[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
Memory size	Total size of configured memory.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
Power state	The current power state of the VM. One of the following: - Powered off; - Powered on; - Suspended.	Simple check	vmware.vm.powerstate[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1h`
Committed storage space	Total storage space, in bytes, committed to this VM across all datastores.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.committed[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
Uncommitted storage space	Additional storage space, in bytes, potentially used by this VM on all datastores.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.uncommitted[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
Unshared storage space	Total storage space, in bytes, occupied by the VM across all datastores that is not shared with any other VM.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.unshared[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
Uptime	System uptime.	Simple check	vmware.vm.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
Guest memory swapped	Amount of guest physical memory that is swapped out to the swap space.	Simple check	vmware.vm.guest.memory.size.swapped[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
Host memory consumed	Amount of host physical memory consumed for backing up guest physical memory pages.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.consumed[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
Host memory usage in percent	Percentage of host physical memory that has been consumed.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
CPU usage in percent	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval.	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.usage.perf[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
CPU latency in percent	Percentage of time the VM is unable to run because it is contending for access to the physical CPU(s).	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.latency[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
CPU readiness latency in percent	Percentage of time that the virtual machine was ready, but was unable to get scheduled to run on the physical CPU.	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.readiness[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
CPU swap-in latency in percent	Percentage of CPU time spent waiting for a swap-in.	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.swapwait[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
Uptime of guest OS	Total time elapsed since the last operating system boot-up (in seconds).	Simple check	vmware.vm.guest.osuptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
Snapshot consolidation needed	Snapshot consolidation needed.	`last(/VMware Guest/vmware.vm.consolidationneeded[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}])=0`	Average	Manual close: Yes
VM is not running	VMware virtual machine is not running.	`last(/VMware Guest/vmware.vm.state[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]) <> 2`	Average
VMware Tools is not running	VMware Tools is not running on the VM.	`last(/VMware Guest/vmware.vm.tools[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},status]) = 1`	Warning	Depends on: VM is not running
VM has been restarted	Uptime is less than 10 minutes.	`(between(last(/VMware Guest/vmware.vm.guest.osuptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]),1,10m)=1 or between(last(/VMware Guest/vmware.vm.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]),1,10m)=1) and last(/VMware Guest/vmware.vm.powerstate[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]) = 1`	Warning	Manual close: Yes

LLD rule Network device discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Network device discovery	Discovery of all network devices.	Simple check	vmware.vm.net.if.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]

Item prototypes for Network device discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Number of bytes received on interface [{#IFBACKINGDEVICE}]/[{#IFDESC}]	VMware virtual machine network interface input statistics (bytes per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.net.if.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},bps]
Number of packets received on interface [{#IFBACKINGDEVICE}]/[{#IFDESC}]	VMware virtual machine network interface input statistics (packets per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.net.if.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},pps]
Number of bytes transmitted on interface [{#IFBACKINGDEVICE}]/[{#IFDESC}]	VMware virtual machine network interface output statistics (bytes per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.net.if.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},bps]
Number of packets transmitted on interface [{#IFBACKINGDEVICE}]/[{#IFDESC}]	VMware virtual machine network interface output statistics (packets per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.net.if.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},pps]
Network utilization on interface [{#IFBACKINGDEVICE}]/[{#IFDESC}]	VMware virtual machine network utilization (combined transmit and receive rates) during the interval.	Simple check	vmware.vm.net.if.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME}] Preprocessing Custom multiplier: `1024`

LLD rule Disk device discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Disk device discovery	Discovery of all disk devices.	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]

Item prototypes for Disk device discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Average number of bytes read from the disk [{#DISKDESC}]	VMware virtual machine disk device read statistics (bytes per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},bps]
Average number of reads from the disk [{#DISKDESC}]	VMware virtual machine disk device read statistics (operations per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},ops]
Average number of bytes written to the disk [{#DISKDESC}]	VMware virtual machine disk device write statistics (bytes per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},bps]
Average number of writes to the disk [{#DISKDESC}]	VMware virtual machine disk device write statistics (operations per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},ops]
Average number of outstanding read requests to the disk [{#DISKDESC}]	Average number of outstanding read requests to the virtual disk during the collection interval.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.readoio[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]
Average number of outstanding write requests to the disk [{#DISKDESC}]	Average number of outstanding write requests to the virtual disk during the collection interval.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.writeoio[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]
Average write latency to the disk [{#DISKDESC}]	The average time a write to the virtual disk takes.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.totalwritelatency[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]
Average read latency from the disk [{#DISKDESC}]	The average time a read from the virtual disk takes.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.totalreadlatency[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]

LLD rule Mounted filesystem discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Mounted filesystem discovery	Discovery of all guest file systems.	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]

Item prototypes for Mounted filesystem discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Free disk space on [{#FSNAME}]	VMware virtual machine file system statistics (bytes).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},free]
Free disk space on [{#FSNAME}] (percentage)	VMware virtual machine file system statistics (percentage).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},pfree]
Total disk space on [{#FSNAME}]	VMware virtual machine total disk space (bytes).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},total] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
Used disk space on [{#FSNAME}]	VMware virtual machine used disk space (bytes).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},used]

Trigger prototypes for Mounted filesystem discovery

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
[{#FSNAME}]: Disk space is critically low	The disk free space on [{#FSNAME}] has been less than `{$VMWARE.VM.FS.PFREE.MIN.CRIT:"{#FSNAME}"}`% for 5m.	`max(/VMware Guest/vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},pfree],5m)<{$VMWARE.VM.FS.PFREE.MIN.CRIT:"{#FSNAME}"} and {$VMWARE.VM.FS.TRIGGER.USED:"{#FSNAME}"}=1`	Average	Manual close: Yes
[{#FSNAME}]: Disk space is low	The disk free space on [{#FSNAME}] has been less than `{$VMWARE.VM.FS.PFREE.MIN.WARN:"{#FSNAME}"}`% for 5m.	`max(/VMware Guest/vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},pfree],5m)<{$VMWARE.VM.FS.PFREE.MIN.WARN:"{#FSNAME}"} and {$VMWARE.VM.FS.TRIGGER.USED:"{#FSNAME}"}=1`	Warning	Manual close: Yes Depends on: [{#FSNAME}]: Disk space is critically low

VMware Hypervisor

Overview

This template is designed for the effortless deployment of VMware ESX hypervisor monitoring and doesn't require any external scripts.

This template can be used in discovery as well as manually linked to a host.

For additional information, please see Zabbix documentation on VM monitoring.

To use this template as manually linked to a host, attach it to the host and manually set the value of the {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} macro.

Requirements

Zabbix version: 7.0 and higher.

Tested versions

This template has been tested on:

VMware 6.0, 6.7, 7.0, 8.0

Configuration

Zabbix should be configured according to the instructions in the Templates out of the box section.

Setup

To use this template as manually linked to a host:

Compile Zabbix server with the required options (--with-libxml2 and --with-libcurl)
Set the StartVMwareCollectors option in the Zabbix server configuration file to "1" or more
Create a new host
Set the host macros (on the host or template level) required for VMware authentication:

{$VMWARE.URL}
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}

To get the hypervisor UUID, enable access to the hypervisor via SSH and log in via SSH using a valid login and password.
Run the following command and specify the UUID in the macro {$VMWARE.HV.UUID}:

vim-cmd hostsvc/hostsummary | grep uuid

Add the agent interface on the host with the address (IP or DNS) of the VMware hypervisor
Link the template to the host created earlier

Macros used

Name	Description	Default
{$VMWARE.URL}	VMware service (vCenter or ESX hypervisor) SDK URL (https://servername/sdk).
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}	VMware service user name.
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}	VMware service `{$USERNAME}` user password.
{$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY}	Set to "true"/"false" to enable or disable the monitoring of hardware sensors.	`false`
{$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY.NAME.MATCHES}	Sets the regex string of hardware sensor names to be allowed in discovery.	`.*`
{$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY.NAME.NOT_MATCHES}	Sets the regex string of hardware sensor names to be ignored in discovery.	`CHANGE_IF_NEEDED`
{$VMWARE.HV.DATASTORE.SPACE.CRIT}	The critical threshold of the datastore free space.	`10`
{$VMWARE.HV.DATASTORE.SPACE.WARN}	The warning threshold of the datastore free space.	`20`
{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}	UUID of hypervisor.

Items

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Connection state	VMware hypervisor connection state. One of the following: - Connected; - Disconnected; - Not responding.	Simple check	vmware.hv.connectionstate[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing JavaScript: `The text is too long. Please see the template.` Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1h`
Number of errors received	VMware hypervisor network input statistics (errors).	Simple check	vmware.hv.network.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},errors]
Number of broadcasts received	VMware hypervisor network input statistics (broadcasts).	Simple check	vmware.hv.network.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},broadcast]
Number of dropped received packets	VMware hypervisor network input statistics (packets dropped).	Simple check	vmware.hv.network.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},dropped]
Number of broadcasts transmitted	VMware hypervisor network output statistics (broadcasts).	Simple check	vmware.hv.network.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},broadcast]
Number of dropped transmitted packets	VMware hypervisor network output statistics (packets dropped).	Simple check	vmware.hv.network.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},dropped]
Number of errors transmitted	VMware hypervisor network output statistics (errors).	Simple check	vmware.hv.network.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},errors]
Hypervisor ping	Checks if the hypervisor is running and accepting ICMP pings. One of the following: - Down; - Up.	Simple check	icmpping[] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `10m`
Cluster name	Cluster name of the guest VM.	Simple check	vmware.hv.cluster.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
CPU usage	Aggregated CPU usage across all cores on the host in Hz. This is only available if the host is connected.	Simple check	vmware.hv.cpu.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
CPU usage in percent	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval.	Simple check	vmware.hv.cpu.usage.perf[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
CPU utilization	CPU utilization as a percentage during the interval depends on power management or hyper-threading.	Simple check	vmware.hv.cpu.utilization[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
Power usage	Current power usage.	Simple check	vmware.hv.power[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
Power usage maximum allowed	Maximum allowed power usage.	Simple check	vmware.hv.power[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},max] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `6h`
Datacenter name	Datacenter name of the hypervisor.	Simple check	vmware.hv.datacenter.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
Full name	The complete product name, including the version information.	Simple check	vmware.hv.fullname[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
CPU frequency	The speed of the CPU cores. This is an average value if there are multiple speeds. The product of CPU frequency and the number of cores is approximately equal to the sum of the MHz for all the individual cores on the host.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.freq[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
CPU model	The CPU model.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.model[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
CPU cores	Number of physical CPU cores on the host. Physical CPU cores are the processors contained by a CPU package.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
CPU threads	Number of physical CPU threads on the host.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.threads[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
Total memory	The physical memory size.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.memory[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
Model	The system model identification.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.model[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
Bios UUID	The hardware BIOS identification.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.uuid[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
Vendor	The hardware vendor identification.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.vendor[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
Ballooned memory	The amount of guest physical memory that is currently reclaimed through the balloon driver. Sum of all guest VMs.	Simple check	vmware.hv.memory.size.ballooned[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
Used memory	Physical memory usage on the host.	Simple check	vmware.hv.memory.used[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
Number of bytes received	VMware hypervisor network input statistics (bytes per second).	Simple check	vmware.hv.network.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},bps]
Number of bytes transmitted	VMware hypervisor network output statistics (bytes per second).	Simple check	vmware.hv.network.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},bps]
Overall status	The overall alarm status of the host. One of the following: - Gray: Unknown; - Green: OK; - Yellow: It might have a problem; - Red: It has a problem.	Simple check	vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
Uptime	System uptime.	Simple check	vmware.hv.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
Version	Dot-separated version string.	Simple check	vmware.hv.version[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
Number of guest VMs	Number of guest virtual machines.	Simple check	vmware.hv.vm.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
Get sensors	Master item for sensor data.	Simple check	vmware.hv.sensors.get[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
Hypervisor is down	The service is unavailable or is not accepting ICMP pings.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/icmpping[])=0`	Average	Manual close: Yes
The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red	One or more components in the appliance might be in an unusable status and the appliance might soon become unresponsive. Security patches might be available.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}])=3`	High
The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Yellow	One or more components in the appliance might soon become overloaded.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}])=2`	Average	Depends on: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red
Hypervisor has been restarted	Uptime is less than 10 minutes.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}])<10m`	Warning	Manual close: Yes

LLD rule Network interface discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Network interface discovery	Discovery of VMware hypervisor network interfaces.	Simple check	vmware.hv.net.if.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]

Item prototypes for Network interface discovery

Name Description Type Key and additional info

[{#IFNAME}] network interface speed

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
[{#IFNAME}] network interface speed	VMware hypervisor network interface speed.	Simple check	vmware.hv.network.linkspeed[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#IFNAME}] Preprocessing Custom multiplier: `1000000`

VMware hypervisor network interface speed.

Simple check

vmware.hv.network.linkspeed[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#IFNAME}]

Preprocessing

Custom multiplier: 1000000

LLD rule Datastore discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Datastore discovery	Discovery of VMware datastores.	Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]

Item prototypes for Datastore discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Average read IOPS of the datastore [{#DATASTORE}]	Average IOPS for a read operation from the datastore.	Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},rps]
Average write IOPS of the datastore [{#DATASTORE}]	Average IOPS for a write operation to the datastore (milliseconds).	Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},rps]
Average read latency of the datastore [{#DATASTORE}]	Average amount of time for a read operation from the datastore (milliseconds).	Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},latency]
Free space on datastore [{#DATASTORE}] (percentage)	VMware datastore free space (percentage from the total).	Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},pfree]
Total size of datastore [{#DATASTORE}]	VMware datastore space in bytes.	Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
Average write latency of the datastore [{#DATASTORE}]	Average amount of time for a write operation to the datastore (milliseconds).	Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},latency]
Multipath count for datastore [{#DATASTORE}]	Number of available datastore paths.	Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}]

Trigger prototypes for Datastore discovery

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
[{#DATASTORE}]: Free space is critically low	Datastore free space has fallen below the critical threshold.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},pfree])<{$VMWARE.HV.DATASTORE.SPACE.CRIT}`	High
[{#DATASTORE}]: Free space is low	Datastore free space has fallen below the warning threshold.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},pfree])<{$VMWARE.HV.DATASTORE.SPACE.WARN}`	Warning	Depends on: [{#DATASTORE}]: Free space is critically low
The multipath count has been changed	The number of available datastore paths is less than registered (`{#MULTIPATH.COUNT}`).	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}],#1)<>last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}],#2) and last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}])<{#MULTIPATH.COUNT}`	Average	Manual close: Yes

LLD rule Serial number discovery

Name Description Type Key and additional info

Serial number discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Serial number discovery	VMware hypervisor serial number discovery. This item works only with VMware hypervisor versions above 6.7.	Dependent item	vmware.hv.serial.number.discovery Preprocessing JavaScript: `The text is too long. Please see the template.` Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `6h`

VMware hypervisor serial number discovery. This item works only with VMware hypervisor versions above 6.7.

Dependent item

vmware.hv.serial.number.discovery

Preprocessing

JavaScript: The text is too long. Please see the template.
Discard unchanged with heartbeat: 6h

Item prototypes for Serial number discovery

Name Description Type Key and additional info

Serial number

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Serial number	VMware hypervisor serial number.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.serialnumber[{$VMWARE.URL},{#VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`

VMware hypervisor serial number.

Simple check

vmware.hv.hw.serialnumber[{$VMWARE.URL},{#VMWARE.HV.UUID}]

Preprocessing

Discard unchanged with heartbeat: 1d

LLD rule Healthcheck discovery

Name Description Type Key and additional info

Healthcheck discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Healthcheck discovery	VMware Rollup Health State sensor discovery.	Dependent item	vmware.hv.healthcheck.discovery Preprocessing JSON Path: `The text is too long. Please see the template.` ⛔️Custom on fail: Set value to: `[]` JavaScript: `The text is too long. Please see the template.` Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `6h`

VMware Rollup Health State sensor discovery.

Dependent item

vmware.hv.healthcheck.discovery

Preprocessing

JSON Path: The text is too long. Please see the template.
⛔️Custom on fail: Set value to: []
JavaScript: The text is too long. Please see the template.
Discard unchanged with heartbeat: 6h

Item prototypes for Healthcheck discovery

Name Description Type Key and additional info

Health state rollup

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Health state rollup	The host's Rollup Health State sensor value. One of the following: - Gray: Unknown; - Green: OK; - Yellow: It might have a problem; - Red: It has a problem.	Dependent item	vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{#SINGLETON}] Preprocessing JSON Path: `The text is too long. Please see the template.` JavaScript: `The text is too long. Please see the template.` Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1h`

The host's Rollup Health State sensor value. One of the following:

- Gray: Unknown;

- Green: OK;

- Yellow: It might have a problem;

- Red: It has a problem.

Dependent item

vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{#SINGLETON}]

Preprocessing

JSON Path: The text is too long. Please see the template.
JavaScript: The text is too long. Please see the template.
Discard unchanged with heartbeat: 1h

Trigger prototypes for Healthcheck discovery

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red	One or more components in the appliance might be in an unusable status and the appliance might soon become unresponsive. Security patches might be available.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{#SINGLETON}])=3`	High	Depends on: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red
The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Yellow	One or more components in the appliance might soon become overloaded.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{#SINGLETON}])=2`	Average	Depends on: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Yellow The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red

LLD rule Sensor discovery

Name Description Type Key and additional info

Sensor discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Sensor discovery	VMware hardware sensor discovery. The data is retrieved from numeric sensor probes and provides information about the health of the physical system.	Dependent item	vmware.hv.sensors.discovery Preprocessing JavaScript: `The text is too long. Please see the template.` Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `6h`

VMware hardware sensor discovery. The data is retrieved from numeric sensor probes and provides information about the health of the physical system.

Dependent item

vmware.hv.sensors.discovery

Preprocessing

JavaScript: The text is too long. Please see the template.
Discard unchanged with heartbeat: 6h

Item prototypes for Sensor discovery

Name Description Type Key and additional info

Sensor [{#NAME}] health state

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Sensor [{#NAME}] health state	VMware hardware sensor health state. One of the following: - Gray: Unknown; - Green: OK; - Yellow: It might have a problem; - Red: It has a problem.	Dependent item	vmware.hv.sensor.state["{#NAME}"] Preprocessing JSON Path: `The text is too long. Please see the template.` JavaScript: `The text is too long. Please see the template.` Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `6h`

VMware hardware sensor health state. One of the following:

- Gray: Unknown;

- Green: OK;

- Yellow: It might have a problem;

- Red: It has a problem.

Dependent item

vmware.hv.sensor.state["{#NAME}"]

Preprocessing

JSON Path: The text is too long. Please see the template.
JavaScript: The text is too long. Please see the template.
Discard unchanged with heartbeat: 6h

Trigger prototypes for Sensor discovery

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
Sensor [{#NAME}] health state is Red	One or more components in the appliance might be in an unusable status and the appliance might soon become unresponsive.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.sensor.state["{#NAME}"])=3`	High	Depends on: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red
Sensor [{#NAME}] health state is Yellow	One or more components in the appliance might soon become overloaded.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.sensor.state["{#NAME}"])=2`	Average	Depends on: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Yellow Sensor [{#NAME}] health state is Red

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This template is for Zabbix version: 6.4

Also available for: 7.0 6.2 6.0 5.4 5.0 4.0

Source: https://git.zabbix.com/projects/ZBX/repos/zabbix/browse/templates/app/vmware?at=release/6.4

VMware

Overview

This template is designed for the effortless deployment of both VMware vCenter and ESX hypervisor monitoring and doesn't require any external scripts.

The "VMware Hypervisor" and "VMware Guest" templates are used by discovery and normally should not be manually linked to a host. For additional information please check https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/6.4/manual/vm_monitoring

Requirements

Zabbix version: 6.4 and higher.

Tested versions

This template has been tested on:

VMware 6.0

Configuration

Zabbix should be configured according to the instructions in the Templates out of the box section.

Setup

Compile Zabbix server with the required options (--with-libxml2 and --with-libcurl)
Set the StartVMwareCollectors option in Zabbix server configuration file to "1" or more
Create a new host
Set the host macros (on the host or template level) required for VMware authentication:

{$VMWARE.URL}
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}

Link the template to host created earlier

Note: To enable discovery of hardware sensors of VMware Hypervisors, set the macro {$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY} to the value true on the discovered host level.

Macros used

Name	Description	Default
{$VMWARE.URL}	VMware service (vCenter or ESX hypervisor) SDK URL (https://servername/sdk)
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}	VMware service user name
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}	VMware service {$USERNAME} user password
{$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY}	Set "true"/"false" to enable or disable monitoring of hardware sensors.	`false`
{$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY.NAME.MATCHES}	Sets the regex string of hardware sensor names to allow in discovery.	`.*`
{$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY.NAME.NOT_MATCHES}	Sets the regex string of hardware sensor names to ignore in discovery.	`CHANGE_IF_NEEDED`
{$VMWARE.DATASTORE.SPACE.CRIT}	The critical threshold of the datastore free space.	`10`
{$VMWARE.DATASTORE.SPACE.WARN}	The warning threshold of the datastore free space.	`20`

Items

Name Description Type Key and additional info

VMware: Event log

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware: Event log	Collect VMware event log. See also: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/6.4/manual/config/items/preprocessing/examples#filtering_vmware_event_log_records	Simple check	vmware.eventlog[{$VMWARE.URL},skip]
VMware: Full name	VMware service full name.	Simple check	vmware.fullname[{$VMWARE.URL}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: Version	VMware service version.	Simple check	vmware.version[{$VMWARE.URL}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`

Collect VMware event log. See also: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/6.4/manual/config/items/preprocessing/examples#filtering_vmware_event_log_records

Simple check

vmware.eventlog[{$VMWARE.URL},skip]

VMware: Full name

VMware service full name.

Simple check

vmware.fullname[{$VMWARE.URL}]

Preprocessing

Discard unchanged with heartbeat: 1d

VMware: Version

VMware service version.

Simple check

vmware.version[{$VMWARE.URL}]

Preprocessing

Discard unchanged with heartbeat: 1d

LLD rule Discover VMware clusters

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Discover VMware clusters	Discovery of clusters	Simple check	vmware.cluster.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]

Item prototypes for Discover VMware clusters

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware: Status of "{#CLUSTER.NAME}" cluster	VMware cluster status.	Simple check	vmware.cluster.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{#CLUSTER.NAME}]

Trigger prototypes for Discover VMware clusters

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: The {#CLUSTER.NAME} status is Red	A cluster enabled for DRS becomes invalid (red) when the tree is no longer internally consistent, that is, resource constraints are not observed. See also: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-resource-management/GUID-C7417CAA-BD38-41D0-9529-9E7A5898BB12.html	`last(/VMware/vmware.cluster.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{#CLUSTER.NAME}])=3`	High
VMware: The {#CLUSTER.NAME} status is Yellow	A cluster becomes overcommitted (yellow) when the tree of resource pools and virtual machines is internally consistent but the cluster does not have the capacity to support all resources reserved by the child resource pools. See also: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-resource-management/GUID-ED8240A0-FB54-4A31-BD3D-F23FE740F10C.html	`last(/VMware/vmware.cluster.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{#CLUSTER.NAME}])=2`	Average	Depends on: VMware: The {#CLUSTER.NAME} status is Red

LLD rule Discover VMware datastores

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Discover VMware datastores		Simple check	vmware.datastore.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]

Item prototypes for Discover VMware datastores

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware: Average read latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Amount of time for a read operation from the datastore (milliseconds).	Simple check	vmware.datastore.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},latency]
VMware: Free space on datastore {#DATASTORE} (percentage)	VMware datastore free space in percentage from total.	Simple check	vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},pfree]
VMware: Total size of datastore {#DATASTORE}	VMware datastore space in bytes.	Simple check	vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE}]
VMware: Average write latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Amount of time for a write operation to the datastore (milliseconds).	Simple check	vmware.datastore.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},latency]

Trigger prototypes for Discover VMware datastores

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: {#DATASTORE}: Free space is critically low	Datastore free space has fallen below critical threshold.	`last(/VMware/vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},pfree])<{$VMWARE.DATASTORE.SPACE.CRIT}`	High
VMware: {#DATASTORE}: Free space is low	Datastore free space has fallen below warning threshold.	`last(/VMware/vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},pfree])<{$VMWARE.DATASTORE.SPACE.WARN}`	Warning	Depends on: VMware: {#DATASTORE}: Free space is critically low

LLD rule Discover VMware hypervisors

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Discover VMware hypervisors	Discovery of hypervisors.	Simple check	vmware.hv.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]

LLD rule Discover VMware VMs

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Discover VMware VMs	Discovery of guest virtual machines.	Simple check	vmware.vm.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]

VMware Guest

Macros used

Name	Description	Default
{$VMWARE.URL}	VMware service (vCenter or ESX hypervisor) SDK URL (https://servername/sdk)
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}	VMware service user name
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}	VMware service {$USERNAME} user password

Items

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware: Cluster name	Cluster name of the guest VM.	Simple check	vmware.vm.cluster.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: Number of virtual CPUs	Number of virtual CPUs assigned to the guest.	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: CPU ready	Time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU during last measurement interval (VMware vCenter/ESXi Server performance counter sampling interval - 20 seconds)	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.ready[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: CPU usage	Current upper-bound on CPU usage. The upper-bound is based on the host the virtual machine is current running on, as well as limits configured on the virtual machine itself or any parent resource pool. Valid while the virtual machine is running.	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Datacenter name	Datacenter name of the guest VM.	Simple check	vmware.vm.datacenter.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: Hypervisor name	Hypervisor name of the guest VM.	Simple check	vmware.vm.hv.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: Ballooned memory	The amount of guest physical memory that is currently reclaimed through the balloon driver.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.ballooned[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Compressed memory	The amount of memory currently in the compression cache for this VM.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.compressed[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Private memory	Amount of memory backed by host memory and not being shared.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.private[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Shared memory	The amount of guest physical memory shared through transparent page sharing.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.shared[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Swapped memory	The amount of guest physical memory swapped out to the VM's swap device by ESX.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.swapped[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Guest memory usage	The amount of guest physical memory that is being used by the VM.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.usage.guest[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Host memory usage	The amount of host physical memory allocated to the VM, accounting for saving from memory sharing with other VMs.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.usage.host[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Memory size	Total size of configured memory.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: Power state	The current power state of the virtual machine.	Simple check	vmware.vm.powerstate[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1h`
VMware: Committed storage space	Total storage space, in bytes, committed to this virtual machine across all datastores.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.committed[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Uncommitted storage space	Additional storage space, in bytes, potentially used by this virtual machine on all datastores.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.uncommitted[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Unshared storage space	Total storage space, in bytes, occupied by the virtual machine across all datastores, that is not shared with any other virtual machine.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.unshared[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Uptime	System uptime.	Simple check	vmware.vm.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Guest memory swapped	Amount of guest physical memory that is swapped out to the swap space.	Simple check	vmware.vm.guest.memory.size.swapped[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Host memory consumed	Amount of host physical memory consumed for backing up guest physical memory pages.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.consumed[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Host memory usage in percents	Percentage of host physical memory that has been consumed.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: CPU usage in percents	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval.	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.usage.perf[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: CPU latency in percents	Percentage of time the virtual machine is unable to run because it is contending for access to the physical CPU(s).	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.latency[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: CPU readiness latency in percents	Percentage of time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU.	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.readiness[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: CPU swap-in latency in percents	Percentage of CPU time spent waiting for swap-in.	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.swapwait[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Uptime of guest OS	Total time elapsed since the last operating system boot-up (in seconds).	Simple check	vmware.vm.guest.osuptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: VM has been restarted	Uptime is less than 10 minutes.	`last(/VMware Guest/vmware.vm.guest.osuptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}])<10m`	Warning	Manual close: Yes

LLD rule Network device discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Network device discovery	Discovery of all network devices.	Simple check	vmware.vm.net.if.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]

Item prototypes for Network device discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware: Number of bytes received on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface input statistics (bytes per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.net.if.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},bps]
VMware: Number of packets received on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface input statistics (packets per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.net.if.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},pps]
VMware: Number of bytes transmitted on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface output statistics (bytes per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.net.if.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},bps]
VMware: Number of packets transmitted on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface output statistics (packets per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.net.if.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},pps]
VMware: Network utilization on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network utilization (combined transmit-rates and receive-rates) during the interval.	Simple check	vmware.vm.net.if.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME}] Preprocessing Custom multiplier: `1024`

LLD rule Disk device discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Disk device discovery	Discovery of all disk devices.	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]

Item prototypes for Disk device discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware: Average number of bytes read from the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device read statistics (bytes per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},bps]
VMware: Average number of reads from the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device read statistics (operations per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},ops]
VMware: Average number of bytes written to the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device write statistics (bytes per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},bps]
VMware: Average number of writes to the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device write statistics (operations per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},ops]
VMware: Average number of outstanding read requests to the disk {#DISKDESC}	Average number of outstanding read requests to the virtual disk during the collection interval.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.readoio[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]
VMware: Average number of outstanding write requests to the disk {#DISKDESC}	Average number of outstanding write requests to the virtual disk during the collection interval.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.writeoio[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]
VMware: Average write latency to the disk {#DISKDESC}	The average time a write to the virtual disk takes.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.totalwritelatency[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]
VMware: Average read latency to the disk {#DISKDESC}	The average time a read from the virtual disk takes.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.totalreadlatency[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]

LLD rule Mounted filesystem discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Mounted filesystem discovery	Discovery of all guest file systems.	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]

Item prototypes for Mounted filesystem discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware: Free disk space on {#FSNAME}	VMware virtual machine file system statistics (bytes).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},free]
VMware: Free disk space on {#FSNAME} (percentage)	VMware virtual machine file system statistics (percentages).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},pfree]
VMware: Total disk space on {#FSNAME}	VMware virtual machine total disk space (bytes).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},total] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: Used disk space on {#FSNAME}	VMware virtual machine used disk space (bytes).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},used]

VMware Hypervisor

Macros used

Name	Description	Default
{$VMWARE.URL}	VMware service (vCenter or ESX hypervisor) SDK URL (https://servername/sdk).
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}	VMware service user name.
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}	VMware service {$USERNAME} user password.
{$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY}	Set "true"/"false" to enable or disable monitoring of hardware sensors.	`false`
{$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY.NAME.MATCHES}	Sets the regex string of hardware sensor names to allow in discovery.	`.*`
{$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY.NAME.NOT_MATCHES}	Sets the regex string of hardware sensor names to ignore in discovery.	`CHANGE_IF_NEEDED`
{$VMWARE.HV.DATASTORE.SPACE.CRIT}	The critical threshold of the datastore free space.	`10`
{$VMWARE.HV.DATASTORE.SPACE.WARN}	The warning threshold of the datastore free space.	`20`

Items

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware: Hypervisor ping	Checks if the hypervisor is running and accepting ICMP pings.	Simple check	icmpping[] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `10m`
VMware: Cluster name	Cluster name of the guest VM.	Simple check	vmware.hv.cluster.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: CPU usage	Aggregated CPU usage across all cores on the host in Hz. This is only available if the host is connected.	Simple check	vmware.hv.cpu.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: CPU usage in percents	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval.	Simple check	vmware.hv.cpu.usage.perf[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: CPU utilization	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval depends on power management or HT.	Simple check	vmware.hv.cpu.utilization[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Power usage	Current power usage.	Simple check	vmware.hv.power[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Power usage maximum allowed	Maximum allowed power usage.	Simple check	vmware.hv.power[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},max] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `6h`
VMware: Datacenter name	Datacenter name of the hypervisor.	Simple check	vmware.hv.datacenter.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: Full name	The complete product name, including the version information.	Simple check	vmware.hv.fullname[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: CPU frequency	The speed of the CPU cores. This is an average value if there are multiple speeds. The product of CPU frequency and number of cores is approximately equal to the sum of the MHz for all the individual cores on the host.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.freq[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: CPU model	The CPU model.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.model[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: CPU cores	Number of physical CPU cores on the host. Physical CPU cores are the processors contained by a CPU package.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: CPU threads	Number of physical CPU threads on the host.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.threads[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Total memory	The physical memory size.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.memory[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Model	The system model identification.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.model[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Bios UUID	The hardware BIOS identification.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.uuid[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Vendor	The hardware vendor identification.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.vendor[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Ballooned memory	The amount of guest physical memory that is currently reclaimed through the balloon driver. Sum of all guest VMs.	Simple check	vmware.hv.memory.size.ballooned[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Used memory	Physical memory usage on the host.	Simple check	vmware.hv.memory.used[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Number of bytes received	VMware hypervisor network input statistics (bytes per second).	Simple check	vmware.hv.network.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},bps]
VMware: Number of bytes transmitted	VMware hypervisor network output statistics (bytes per second).	Simple check	vmware.hv.network.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},bps]
VMware: Overall status	The overall alarm status of the host: gray - unknown, green - ok, red - it has a problem, yellow - it might have a problem.	Simple check	vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Uptime	System uptime.	Simple check	vmware.hv.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Version	Dot-separated version string.	Simple check	vmware.hv.version[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Number of guest VMs	Number of guest virtual machines.	Simple check	vmware.hv.vm.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Get sensors	Master item for sensors data.	Simple check	vmware.hv.sensors.get[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: Hypervisor is down	The service is unavailable or does not accept ICMP ping.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/icmpping[])=0`	Average	Manual close: Yes
VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red	One or more components in the appliance might be in an unusable status and the appliance might become unresponsive soon. Security patches might be available.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}])=3`	High
VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Yellow	One or more components in the appliance might become overloaded soon.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}])=2`	Average	Depends on: VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red
VMware: Hypervisor has been restarted	Uptime is less than 10 minutes.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}])<10m`	Warning	Manual close: Yes

LLD rule Datastore discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Datastore discovery		Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]

Item prototypes for Datastore discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware: Average read latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Average amount of time for a read operation from the datastore (milliseconds).	Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},latency]
VMware: Free space on datastore {#DATASTORE} (percentage)	VMware datastore free space in percentage from total.	Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},pfree]
VMware: Total size of datastore {#DATASTORE}	VMware datastore space in bytes.	Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}]
VMware: Average write latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Average amount of time for a write operation to the datastore (milliseconds).	Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},latency]
VMware: Multipath count for datastore {#DATASTORE}	Number of available datastore paths.	Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}]

Trigger prototypes for Datastore discovery

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: {#DATASTORE}: Free space is critically low	Datastore free space has fallen below critical threshold.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},pfree])<{$VMWARE.HV.DATASTORE.SPACE.CRIT}`	High
VMware: {#DATASTORE}: Free space is low	Datastore free space has fallen below warning threshold.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},pfree])<{$VMWARE.HV.DATASTORE.SPACE.WARN}`	Warning	Depends on: VMware: {#DATASTORE}: Free space is critically low
VMware: The multipath count has been changed	The number of available datastore paths less than registered ({#MULTIPATH.COUNT}).	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}],#1)<>last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}],#2) and last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}])<{#MULTIPATH.COUNT}`	Average	Manual close: Yes

LLD rule Healthcheck discovery

Name Description Type Key and additional info

Healthcheck discovery

VMware Rollup Health State sensor discovery.

Dependent item

vmware.hv.healthcheck.discovery

Preprocessing

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Discard unchanged with heartbeat: 6h

Item prototypes for Healthcheck discovery

Name Description Type Key and additional info

VMware: Health state rollup

The host health state rollup sensor value: gray - unknown, green - ok, red - it has a problem, yellow - it might have a problem.

Dependent item

vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{#SINGLETON}]

Preprocessing

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Trigger prototypes for Healthcheck discovery

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red	One or more components in the appliance might be in an unusable status and the appliance might become unresponsive soon. Security patches might be available.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{#SINGLETON}])="Red"`	High	Depends on: VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red
VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Yellow	One or more components in the appliance might become overloaded soon.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{#SINGLETON}])="Yellow"`	Average	Depends on: VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Yellow VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red

LLD rule Sensor discovery

Name Description Type Key and additional info

Sensor discovery

VMware hardware sensor discovery. The data is retrieved from numeric sensor probes and provides information about the health of the physical system.

Dependent item

vmware.hv.sensors.discovery

Preprocessing

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Discard unchanged with heartbeat: 6h

Item prototypes for Sensor discovery

Name Description Type Key and additional info

VMware: Sensor [{#NAME}] health state

VMware hardware sensor health state. One of the following:

- Unknown

- Green

- Yellow

- Red

Dependent item

vmware.hv.sensor.state["{#NAME}"]

Preprocessing

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Discard unchanged with heartbeat: 6h

Trigger prototypes for Sensor discovery

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: Sensor [{#NAME}] health state is Red	One or more components in the appliance might be in an unusable status and the appliance might become unresponsive soon.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.sensor.state["{#NAME}"])=3`	High	Depends on: VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red
VMware: Sensor [{#NAME}] health state is Yellow	One or more components in the appliance might become overloaded soon.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.sensor.state["{#NAME}"])=2`	Average	Depends on: VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Yellow VMware: Sensor [{#NAME}] health state is Red

Feedback

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This template is for Zabbix version: 6.2

Also available for: 7.0 6.4 6.0 5.4 5.0 4.0

Source: https://git.zabbix.com/projects/ZBX/repos/zabbix/browse/templates/app/vmware?at=release/6.2

VMware

Overview

For Zabbix version: 6.2 and higher
The template to monitor VMware vCenter and ESX hypervisor. The "VMware Hypervisor" and "VMware Guest" templates are used by discovery and normally should not be manually linked to a host. For additional information please check https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/6.2/manual/vm_monitoring

Setup

Compile zabbix server with required options (--with-libxml2 and --with-libcurl)
Set the StartVMwareCollectors option in Zabbix server configuration file to 1 or more
Create a new host
Set the host macros (on host or template level) required for VMware authentication:

{$VMWARE.URL}
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}

Link the template to host created early

Zabbix configuration

No specific Zabbix configuration is required.

Macros used

Name	Description	Default
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}	VMware service {$USERNAME} user password	``
{$VMWARE.URL}	VMware service (vCenter or ESX hypervisor) SDK URL (https://servername/sdk)	``
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}	VMware service user name	``

Template links

There are no template links in this template.

Discovery rules

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Discover VMware clusters	Discovery of clusters	SIMPLE	vmware.cluster.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]
Discover VMware datastores	-	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]
Discover VMware hypervisors	Discovery of hypervisors.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]
Discover VMware VMs	Discovery of guest virtual machines.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]

Items collected

Group	Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware	VMware: Event log	Collect VMware event log. See also: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/6.2/manual/config/items/preprocessing/examples#filtering_vmware_event_log_records	SIMPLE	vmware.eventlog[{$VMWARE.URL},skip]
VMware	VMware: Full name	VMware service full name.	SIMPLE	vmware.fullname[{$VMWARE.URL}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Version	VMware service version.	SIMPLE	vmware.version[{$VMWARE.URL}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Status of "{#CLUSTER.NAME}" cluster	VMware cluster status.	SIMPLE	vmware.cluster.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{#CLUSTER.NAME}]
VMware	VMware: Average read latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Amount of time for a read operation from the datastore (milliseconds).	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},latency]
VMware	VMware: Free space on datastore {#DATASTORE} (percentage)	VMware datastore space in percentage from total.	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},pfree]
VMware	VMware: Total size of datastore {#DATASTORE}	VMware datastore space in bytes.	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE}]
VMware	VMware: Average write latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Amount of time for a write operation to the datastore (milliseconds).	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},latency]

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info

Feedback

Please report any issues with the template at https://support.zabbix.com

You can also provide feedback, discuss the template or ask for help with it at ZABBIX forums.

VMware Guest

Overview

For Zabbix version: 6.2 and higher

Setup

Refer to the vendor documentation.

Zabbix configuration

No specific Zabbix configuration is required.

Macros used

Name	Description	Default
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}	VMware service {$USERNAME} user password	``
{$VMWARE.URL}	VMware service (vCenter or ESX hypervisor) SDK URL (https://servername/sdk)	``
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}	VMware service user name	``

Template links

There are no template links in this template.

Discovery rules

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Disk device discovery	Discovery of all disk devices.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
Mounted filesystem discovery	Discovery of all guest file systems.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
Network device discovery	Discovery of all network devices.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]

Items collected

Group	Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware	VMware: Cluster name	Cluster name of the guest VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cluster.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Number of virtual CPUs	Number of virtual CPUs assigned to the guest.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: CPU ready	Time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU during last measurement interval (VMware vCenter/ESXi Server performance counter sampling interval - 20 seconds)	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.ready[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: CPU usage	Current upper-bound on CPU usage. The upper-bound is based on the host the virtual machine is current running on, as well as limits configured on the virtual machine itself or any parent resource pool. Valid while the virtual machine is running.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Datacenter name	Datacenter name of the guest VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.datacenter.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Hypervisor name	Hypervisor name of the guest VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.hv.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Ballooned memory	The amount of guest physical memory that is currently reclaimed through the balloon driver.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.ballooned[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Compressed memory	The amount of memory currently in the compression cache for this VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.compressed[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Private memory	Amount of memory backed by host memory and not being shared.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.private[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Shared memory	The amount of guest physical memory shared through transparent page sharing.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.shared[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Swapped memory	The amount of guest physical memory swapped out to the VM's swap device by ESX.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.swapped[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Guest memory usage	The amount of guest physical memory that is being used by the VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.usage.guest[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Host memory usage	The amount of host physical memory allocated to the VM, accounting for saving from memory sharing with other VMs.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.usage.host[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Memory size	Total size of configured memory.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Power state	The current power state of the virtual machine.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.powerstate[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1h`
VMware	VMware: Committed storage space	Total storage space, in bytes, committed to this virtual machine across all datastores.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.committed[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Uncommitted storage space	Additional storage space, in bytes, potentially used by this virtual machine on all datastores.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.uncommitted[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Unshared storage space	Total storage space, in bytes, occupied by the virtual machine across all datastores, that is not shared with any other virtual machine.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.unshared[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Uptime	System uptime.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Guest memory swapped	Amount of guest physical memory that is swapped out to the swap space.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.guest.memory.size.swapped[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Host memory consumed	Amount of host physical memory consumed for backing up guest physical memory pages.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.consumed[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Host memory usage in percents	Percentage of host physical memory that has been consumed.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: CPU usage in percents	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.usage.perf[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: CPU latency in percents	Percentage of time the virtual machine is unable to run because it is contending for access to the physical CPU(s).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.latency[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: CPU readiness latency in percents	Percentage of time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.readiness[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: CPU swap-in latency in percents	Percentage of CPU time spent waiting for swap-in.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.swapwait[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Uptime of guest OS	Total time elapsed since the last operating system boot-up (in seconds).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.guest.osuptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Number of bytes received on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface input statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},bps]
VMware	VMware: Number of packets received on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface input statistics (packets per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},pps]
VMware	VMware: Number of bytes transmitted on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface output statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},bps]
VMware	VMware: Number of packets transmitted on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface output statistics (packets per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},pps]
VMware	VMware: Network utilization on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network utilization (combined transmit-rates and receive-rates) during the interval.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME}] Preprocessing: - MULTIPLIER: `1024`
VMware	VMware: Average number of bytes read from the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device read statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},bps]
VMware	VMware: Average number of reads from the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device read statistics (operations per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},ops]
VMware	VMware: Average number of bytes written to the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device write statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},bps]
VMware	VMware: Average number of writes to the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device write statistics (operations per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},ops]
VMware	VMware: Average number of outstanding read requests to the disk {#DISKDESC}	Average number of outstanding read requests to the virtual disk during the collection interval.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.readoio[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]
VMware	VMware: Average number of outstanding write requests to the disk {#DISKDESC}	Average number of outstanding write requests to the virtual disk during the collection interval.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.writeoio[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]
VMware	VMware: Average write latency to the disk {#DISKDESC}	The average time a write to the virtual disk takes.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.totalwritelatency[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]
VMware	VMware: Average read latency to the disk {#DISKDESC}	The average time a read from the virtual disk takes.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.totalreadlatency[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]
VMware	VMware: Free disk space on {#FSNAME}	VMware virtual machine file system statistics (bytes).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},free]
VMware	VMware: Free disk space on {#FSNAME} (percentage)	VMware virtual machine file system statistics (percentages).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},pfree]
VMware	VMware: Total disk space on {#FSNAME}	VMware virtual machine total disk space (bytes).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},total] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Used disk space on {#FSNAME}	VMware virtual machine used disk space (bytes).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},used]

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: VM has been restarted	Uptime is less than 10 minutes.	`last(/VMware Guest/vmware.vm.guest.osuptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}])<10m`	WARNING	Manual close: YES

Feedback

Please report any issues with the template at https://support.zabbix.com

VMware Hypervisor

Overview

For Zabbix version: 6.2 and higher

Setup

Refer to the vendor documentation.

Zabbix configuration

No specific Zabbix configuration is required.

Macros used

Name	Description	Default
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}	VMware service {$USERNAME} user password	``
{$VMWARE.URL}	VMware service (vCenter or ESX hypervisor) SDK URL (https://servername/sdk)	``
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}	VMware service user name	``

Template links

There are no template links in this template.

Discovery rules

Name Description Type Key and additional info

Datastore discovery

-

SIMPLE

vmware.hv.datastore.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]

Healthcheck discovery

VMware Rollup Health State sensor discovery

DEPENDENT

vmware.hv.healthcheck.discovery

Preprocessing:

- JSONPATH: $..HostNumericSensorInfo[?(@.name=="VMware Rollup Health State")]

- JAVASCRIPT: return JSON.stringify(value != "[]" ? [{'{#SINGLETON}': ''}] : []);

- DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: 6h

Items collected

Group	Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware	VMware: Hypervisor ping	Checks if the hypervisor is running and accepting ICMP pings.	SIMPLE	icmpping[] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `10m`
VMware	VMware: Cluster name	Cluster name of the guest VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.cluster.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: CPU usage	Aggregated CPU usage across all cores on the host in Hz. This is only available if the host is connected.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.cpu.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: CPU usage in percents	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.cpu.usage.perf[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: CPU utilization	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval depends on power management or HT.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.cpu.utilization[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Power usage	Current power usage.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.power[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Power usage maximum allowed	Maximum allowed power usage.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.power[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},max] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `6h`
VMware	VMware: Datacenter name	Datacenter name of the hypervisor.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datacenter.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Full name	The complete product name, including the version information.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.fullname[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: CPU frequency	The speed of the CPU cores. This is an average value if there are multiple speeds. The product of CPU frequency and number of cores is approximately equal to the sum of the MHz for all the individual cores on the host.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.freq[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: CPU model	The CPU model.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.model[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: CPU cores	Number of physical CPU cores on the host. Physical CPU cores are the processors contained by a CPU package.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: CPU threads	Number of physical CPU threads on the host.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.threads[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Total memory	The physical memory size.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.memory[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Model	The system model identification.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.model[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Bios UUID	The hardware BIOS identification.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.uuid[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Vendor	The hardware vendor identification.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.vendor[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Ballooned memory	The amount of guest physical memory that is currently reclaimed through the balloon driver. Sum of all guest VMs.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.memory.size.ballooned[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Used memory	Physical memory usage on the host.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.memory.used[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Number of bytes received	VMware hypervisor network input statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.network.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},bps]
VMware	VMware: Number of bytes transmitted	VMware hypervisor network output statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.network.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},bps]
VMware	VMware: Overall status	The overall alarm status of the host: gray - unknown, green - ok, red - it has a problem, yellow - it might have a problem.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Uptime	System uptime.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Version	Dot-separated version string.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.version[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Number of guest VMs	Number of guest virtual machines.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.vm.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Average read latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Average amount of time for a read operation from the datastore (milliseconds).	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datastore.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},latency]
VMware	VMware: Free space on datastore {#DATASTORE} (percentage)	VMware datastore space in percentage from total.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},pfree]
VMware	VMware: Total size of datastore {#DATASTORE}	VMware datastore space in bytes.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}]
VMware	VMware: Average write latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Average amount of time for a write operation to the datastore (milliseconds).	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datastore.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},latency]
VMware	VMware: Multipath count for datastore {#DATASTORE}	Number of available datastore paths.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}]
VMware	VMware: Health state rollup	The host health state rollup sensor value: gray - unknown, green - ok, red - it has a problem, yellow - it might have a problem.	DEPENDENT	vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{#SINGLETON}] Preprocessing: - JSONPATH: `$..HostNumericSensorInfo[?(@.name=="VMware Rollup Health State")].healthState.label.first()`
Zabbix raw items	VMware: Get sensors	Master item for sensors data.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.sensors.get[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: Hypervisor is down	The service is unavailable or does not accept ICMP ping.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/icmpping[])=0`	AVERAGE	Manual close: YES
VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red	One or more components in the appliance might be in an unusable status and the appliance might become unresponsive soon. Security patches might be available.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}])=3`	HIGH
VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Yellow	One or more components in the appliance might become overloaded soon.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}])=2`	AVERAGE	Depends on: - VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red
VMware: Hypervisor has been restarted	Uptime is less than 10 minutes.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}])<10m`	WARNING	Manual close: YES
VMware: The multipath count has been changed	The number of available datastore paths less than registered ({#MULTIPATH.COUNT}).	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}],#1)<>last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}],#2) and last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}])<{#MULTIPATH.COUNT}`	AVERAGE	Manual close: YES
VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red	One or more components in the appliance might be in an unusable status and the appliance might become unresponsive soon. Security patches might be available.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{#SINGLETON}])="Red"`	HIGH	Depends on: - VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red
VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Yellow	One or more components in the appliance might become overloaded soon.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{#SINGLETON}])="Yellow"`	AVERAGE	Depends on: - VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red - VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red - VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Yellow

Feedback

Please report any issues with the template at https://support.zabbix.com

This template is for Zabbix version: 6.0

Also available for: 7.0 6.4 6.2 5.4 5.0 4.0

Source: https://git.zabbix.com/projects/ZBX/repos/zabbix/browse/templates/app/vmware?at=release/6.0

VMware

Overview

This template set is designed for the effortless deployment of VMware vCenter and ESX hypervisor monitoring and doesn't require any external scripts.

The template "VMware Guest" is used in discovery and normally should not be manually linked to a host.
The template "VMware Hypervisor" can be used in discovery as well as manually linked to a host.

For additional information, please see Zabbix documentation on VM monitoring.

Requirements

Zabbix version: 6.0 and higher.

Tested versions

This template has been tested on:

VMware 6.0

Configuration

Zabbix should be configured according to the instructions in the Templates out of the box section.

Setup

Compile Zabbix server with the required options (--with-libxml2 and --with-libcurl)
Set the StartVMwareCollectors option in the Zabbix server configuration file to "1" or more
Create a new host
Set the host macros (on the host or template level) required for VMware authentication:

{$VMWARE.URL}
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}

Link the template to the host created earlier

Note: To enable discovery of hardware sensors of VMware Hypervisors, set the macro {$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY} to the value true on the host level.

Macros used

Name	Description	Default
{$VMWARE.URL}	VMware service (vCenter or ESX hypervisor) SDK URL (https://servername/sdk)
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}	VMware service user name
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}	VMware service {$USERNAME} user password
{$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY}	Set "true"/"false" to enable or disable monitoring of hardware sensors.	`false`
{$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY.NAME.MATCHES}	Sets the regex string of hardware sensor names to allow in discovery.	`.*`
{$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY.NAME.NOT_MATCHES}	Sets the regex string of hardware sensor names to ignore in discovery.	`CHANGE_IF_NEEDED`
{$VMWARE.DATASTORE.SPACE.CRIT}	The critical threshold of the datastore free space.	`10`
{$VMWARE.DATASTORE.SPACE.WARN}	The warning threshold of the datastore free space.	`20`

Items

Name Description Type Key and additional info

VMware: Event log

Collect VMware event log. See also: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/6.0/manual/config/items/preprocessing/examples#filtering_vmware_event_log_records

Simple check

vmware.eventlog[{$VMWARE.URL},skip]

VMware: Full name

VMware service full name.

Simple check

vmware.fullname[{$VMWARE.URL}]

Preprocessing

Discard unchanged with heartbeat: 1d

VMware: Version

VMware service version.

Simple check

vmware.version[{$VMWARE.URL}]

Preprocessing

Discard unchanged with heartbeat: 1d

LLD rule Discover VMware clusters

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Discover VMware clusters	Discovery of clusters	Simple check	vmware.cluster.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]

Item prototypes for Discover VMware clusters

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware: Status of "{#CLUSTER.NAME}" cluster	VMware cluster status.	Simple check	vmware.cluster.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{#CLUSTER.NAME}]

Trigger prototypes for Discover VMware clusters

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: The {#CLUSTER.NAME} status is Red	A cluster enabled for DRS becomes invalid (red) when the tree is no longer internally consistent, that is, resource constraints are not observed. See also: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-resource-management/GUID-C7417CAA-BD38-41D0-9529-9E7A5898BB12.html	`last(/VMware/vmware.cluster.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{#CLUSTER.NAME}])=3`	High
VMware: The {#CLUSTER.NAME} status is Yellow	A cluster becomes overcommitted (yellow) when the tree of resource pools and virtual machines is internally consistent but the cluster does not have the capacity to support all resources reserved by the child resource pools. See also: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/8.0/vsphere-resource-management/GUID-ED8240A0-FB54-4A31-BD3D-F23FE740F10C.html	`last(/VMware/vmware.cluster.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{#CLUSTER.NAME}])=2`	Average	Depends on: VMware: The {#CLUSTER.NAME} status is Red

LLD rule Discover VMware datastores

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Discover VMware datastores		Simple check	vmware.datastore.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]

Item prototypes for Discover VMware datastores

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware: Average read latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Amount of time for a read operation from the datastore (milliseconds).	Simple check	vmware.datastore.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},latency]
VMware: Free space on datastore {#DATASTORE} (percentage)	VMware datastore free space in percentage from total.	Simple check	vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},pfree]
VMware: Total size of datastore {#DATASTORE}	VMware datastore space in bytes.	Simple check	vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE}]
VMware: Average write latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Amount of time for a write operation to the datastore (milliseconds).	Simple check	vmware.datastore.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},latency]

Trigger prototypes for Discover VMware datastores

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: {#DATASTORE}: Free space is critically low	Datastore free space has fallen below critical threshold.	`last(/VMware/vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},pfree])<{$VMWARE.DATASTORE.SPACE.CRIT}`	High
VMware: {#DATASTORE}: Free space is low	Datastore free space has fallen below warning threshold.	`last(/VMware/vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},pfree])<{$VMWARE.DATASTORE.SPACE.WARN}`	Warning	Depends on: VMware: {#DATASTORE}: Free space is critically low

LLD rule Discover VMware hypervisors

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Discover VMware hypervisors	Discovery of hypervisors.	Simple check	vmware.hv.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]

LLD rule Discover VMware VMs

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Discover VMware VMs	Discovery of guest virtual machines.	Simple check	vmware.vm.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]

VMware Guest

Macros used

Name	Description	Default
{$VMWARE.URL}	VMware service (vCenter or ESX hypervisor) SDK URL (https://servername/sdk)
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}	VMware service user name
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}	VMware service {$USERNAME} user password

Items

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware: Cluster name	Cluster name of the guest VM.	Simple check	vmware.vm.cluster.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: Number of virtual CPUs	Number of virtual CPUs assigned to the guest.	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: CPU ready	Time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU during last measurement interval (VMware vCenter/ESXi Server performance counter sampling interval - 20 seconds)	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.ready[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: CPU usage	Current upper-bound on CPU usage. The upper-bound is based on the host the virtual machine is current running on, as well as limits configured on the virtual machine itself or any parent resource pool. Valid while the virtual machine is running.	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Datacenter name	Datacenter name of the guest VM.	Simple check	vmware.vm.datacenter.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: Hypervisor name	Hypervisor name of the guest VM.	Simple check	vmware.vm.hv.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: Ballooned memory	The amount of guest physical memory that is currently reclaimed through the balloon driver.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.ballooned[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Compressed memory	The amount of memory currently in the compression cache for this VM.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.compressed[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Private memory	Amount of memory backed by host memory and not being shared.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.private[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Shared memory	The amount of guest physical memory shared through transparent page sharing.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.shared[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Swapped memory	The amount of guest physical memory swapped out to the VM's swap device by ESX.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.swapped[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Guest memory usage	The amount of guest physical memory that is being used by the VM.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.usage.guest[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Host memory usage	The amount of host physical memory allocated to the VM, accounting for saving from memory sharing with other VMs.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.usage.host[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Memory size	Total size of configured memory.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: Power state	The current power state of the virtual machine.	Simple check	vmware.vm.powerstate[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1h`
VMware: Committed storage space	Total storage space, in bytes, committed to this virtual machine across all datastores.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.committed[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Uncommitted storage space	Additional storage space, in bytes, potentially used by this virtual machine on all datastores.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.uncommitted[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Unshared storage space	Total storage space, in bytes, occupied by the virtual machine across all datastores, that is not shared with any other virtual machine.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.unshared[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Uptime	System uptime.	Simple check	vmware.vm.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Guest memory swapped	Amount of guest physical memory that is swapped out to the swap space.	Simple check	vmware.vm.guest.memory.size.swapped[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Host memory consumed	Amount of host physical memory consumed for backing up guest physical memory pages.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.size.consumed[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Host memory usage in percents	Percentage of host physical memory that has been consumed.	Simple check	vmware.vm.memory.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: CPU usage in percents	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval.	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.usage.perf[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: CPU latency in percents	Percentage of time the virtual machine is unable to run because it is contending for access to the physical CPU(s).	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.latency[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: CPU readiness latency in percents	Percentage of time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU.	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.readiness[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: CPU swap-in latency in percents	Percentage of CPU time spent waiting for swap-in.	Simple check	vmware.vm.cpu.swapwait[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware: Uptime of guest OS	Total time elapsed since the last operating system boot-up (in seconds).	Simple check	vmware.vm.guest.osuptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: VM has been restarted	Uptime is less than 10 minutes.	`last(/VMware Guest/vmware.vm.guest.osuptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}])<10m`	Warning	Manual close: Yes

LLD rule Network device discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Network device discovery	Discovery of all network devices.	Simple check	vmware.vm.net.if.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]

Item prototypes for Network device discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware: Number of bytes received on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface input statistics (bytes per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.net.if.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},bps]
VMware: Number of packets received on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface input statistics (packets per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.net.if.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},pps]
VMware: Number of bytes transmitted on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface output statistics (bytes per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.net.if.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},bps]
VMware: Number of packets transmitted on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface output statistics (packets per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.net.if.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},pps]
VMware: Network utilization on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network utilization (combined transmit-rates and receive-rates) during the interval.	Simple check	vmware.vm.net.if.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME}] Preprocessing Custom multiplier: `1024`

LLD rule Disk device discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Disk device discovery	Discovery of all disk devices.	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]

Item prototypes for Disk device discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware: Average number of bytes read from the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device read statistics (bytes per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},bps]
VMware: Average number of reads from the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device read statistics (operations per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},ops]
VMware: Average number of bytes written to the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device write statistics (bytes per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},bps]
VMware: Average number of writes to the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device write statistics (operations per second).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},ops]
VMware: Average number of outstanding read requests to the disk {#DISKDESC}	Average number of outstanding read requests to the virtual disk during the collection interval.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.readoio[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]
VMware: Average number of outstanding write requests to the disk {#DISKDESC}	Average number of outstanding write requests to the virtual disk during the collection interval.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.writeoio[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]
VMware: Average write latency to the disk {#DISKDESC}	The average time a write to the virtual disk takes.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.totalwritelatency[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]
VMware: Average read latency to the disk {#DISKDESC}	The average time a read from the virtual disk takes.	Simple check	vmware.vm.storage.totalreadlatency[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]

LLD rule Mounted filesystem discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Mounted filesystem discovery	Discovery of all guest file systems.	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]

Item prototypes for Mounted filesystem discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware: Free disk space on {#FSNAME}	VMware virtual machine file system statistics (bytes).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},free]
VMware: Free disk space on {#FSNAME} (percentage)	VMware virtual machine file system statistics (percentages).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},pfree]
VMware: Total disk space on {#FSNAME}	VMware virtual machine total disk space (bytes).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},total] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: Used disk space on {#FSNAME}	VMware virtual machine used disk space (bytes).	Simple check	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},used]

VMware Hypervisor

Overview

This template is designed for the effortless deployment of VMware ESX hypervisor monitoring and doesn't require any external scripts.

This template can be used in discovery as well as manually linked to a host.

For additional information, please see Zabbix documentation on VM monitoring.

To use this template as manually linked to a host, attach it to the host and manually set the value of the {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} macro.

Requirements

Zabbix version: 6.0 and higher.

Tested versions

This template has been tested on:

VMware 6.0, 6.7, 7.0, 8.0

Configuration

Zabbix should be configured according to the instructions in the Templates out of the box section.

Setup

To use this template as manually linked to a host:

Compile Zabbix server with the required options (--with-libxml2 and --with-libcurl)
Set the StartVMwareCollectors option in the Zabbix server configuration file to "1" or more
Create a new host
Set the host macros (on the host or template level) required for VMware authentication:

{$VMWARE.URL}
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}

To get the hypervisor UUID, enable access to the hypervisor via SSH and log in via SSH using a valid login and password.
Run the following command and specify the UUID in the macro {$VMWARE.HV.UUID}:

vim-cmd hostsvc/hostsummary | grep uuid

Add the agent interface on the host with the address (IP or DNS) of the VMware hypervisor
Link the template to the host created earlier

Macros used

Name	Description	Default
{$VMWARE.URL}	VMware service (vCenter or ESX hypervisor) SDK URL (https://servername/sdk).
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}	VMware service user name.
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}	VMware service {$USERNAME} user password.
{$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY}	Set "true"/"false" to enable or disable monitoring of hardware sensors.	`false`
{$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY.NAME.MATCHES}	Sets the regex string of hardware sensor names to allow in discovery.	`.*`
{$VMWARE.HV.SENSOR.DISCOVERY.NAME.NOT_MATCHES}	Sets the regex string of hardware sensor names to ignore in discovery.	`CHANGE_IF_NEEDED`
{$VMWARE.HV.DATASTORE.SPACE.CRIT}	The critical threshold of the datastore free space.	`10`
{$VMWARE.HV.DATASTORE.SPACE.WARN}	The warning threshold of the datastore free space.	`20`
{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}	UUID of hypervisor.

Items

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware: Hypervisor ping	Checks if the hypervisor is running and accepting ICMP pings.	Simple check	icmpping[] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `10m`
VMware: Cluster name	Cluster name of the guest VM.	Simple check	vmware.hv.cluster.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: CPU usage	Aggregated CPU usage across all cores on the host in Hz. This is only available if the host is connected.	Simple check	vmware.hv.cpu.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: CPU usage in percents	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval.	Simple check	vmware.hv.cpu.usage.perf[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: CPU utilization	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval depends on power management or HT.	Simple check	vmware.hv.cpu.utilization[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Power usage	Current power usage.	Simple check	vmware.hv.power[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Power usage maximum allowed	Maximum allowed power usage.	Simple check	vmware.hv.power[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},max] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `6h`
VMware: Datacenter name	Datacenter name of the hypervisor.	Simple check	vmware.hv.datacenter.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: Full name	The complete product name, including the version information.	Simple check	vmware.hv.fullname[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: CPU frequency	The speed of the CPU cores. This is an average value if there are multiple speeds. The product of CPU frequency and number of cores is approximately equal to the sum of the MHz for all the individual cores on the host.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.freq[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: CPU model	The CPU model.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.model[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: CPU cores	Number of physical CPU cores on the host. Physical CPU cores are the processors contained by a CPU package.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing Discard unchanged with heartbeat: `1d`
VMware: CPU threads	Number of physical CPU threads on the host.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.threads[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Total memory	The physical memory size.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.memory[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Model	The system model identification.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.model[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Bios UUID	The hardware BIOS identification.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.uuid[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Vendor	The hardware vendor identification.	Simple check	vmware.hv.hw.vendor[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Ballooned memory	The amount of guest physical memory that is currently reclaimed through the balloon driver. Sum of all guest VMs.	Simple check	vmware.hv.memory.size.ballooned[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Used memory	Physical memory usage on the host.	Simple check	vmware.hv.memory.used[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Number of bytes received	VMware hypervisor network input statistics (bytes per second).	Simple check	vmware.hv.network.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},bps]
VMware: Number of bytes transmitted	VMware hypervisor network output statistics (bytes per second).	Simple check	vmware.hv.network.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},bps]
VMware: Overall status	The overall alarm status of the host: gray - unknown, green - ok, red - it has a problem, yellow - it might have a problem.	Simple check	vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Uptime	System uptime.	Simple check	vmware.hv.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Version	Dot-separated version string.	Simple check	vmware.hv.version[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Number of guest VMs	Number of guest virtual machines.	Simple check	vmware.hv.vm.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware: Get sensors	Master item for sensors data.	Simple check	vmware.hv.sensors.get[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: Hypervisor is down	The service is unavailable or does not accept ICMP ping.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/icmpping[])=0`	Average	Manual close: Yes
VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red	One or more components in the appliance might be in an unusable status and the appliance might become unresponsive soon. Security patches might be available.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}])=3`	High
VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Yellow	One or more components in the appliance might become overloaded soon.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}])=2`	Average	Depends on: VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red
VMware: Hypervisor has been restarted	Uptime is less than 10 minutes.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}])<10m`	Warning	Manual close: Yes

LLD rule Datastore discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Datastore discovery		Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]

Item prototypes for Datastore discovery

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware: Average read latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Average amount of time for a read operation from the datastore (milliseconds).	Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},latency]
VMware: Free space on datastore {#DATASTORE} (percentage)	VMware datastore free space in percentage from total.	Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},pfree]
VMware: Total size of datastore {#DATASTORE}	VMware datastore space in bytes.	Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}]
VMware: Average write latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Average amount of time for a write operation to the datastore (milliseconds).	Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},latency]
VMware: Multipath count for datastore {#DATASTORE}	Number of available datastore paths.	Simple check	vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}]

Trigger prototypes for Datastore discovery

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: {#DATASTORE}: Free space is critically low	Datastore free space has fallen below critical threshold.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},pfree])<{$VMWARE.HV.DATASTORE.SPACE.CRIT}`	High
VMware: {#DATASTORE}: Free space is low	Datastore free space has fallen below warning threshold.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},pfree])<{$VMWARE.HV.DATASTORE.SPACE.WARN}`	Warning	Depends on: VMware: {#DATASTORE}: Free space is critically low
VMware: The multipath count has been changed	The number of available datastore paths less than registered ({#MULTIPATH.COUNT}).	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}],#1)<>last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}],#2) and last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}])<{#MULTIPATH.COUNT}`	Average	Manual close: Yes

LLD rule Healthcheck discovery

Name Description Type Key and additional info

Healthcheck discovery

VMware Rollup Health State sensor discovery.

Dependent item

vmware.hv.healthcheck.discovery

Preprocessing

JSON Path: The text is too long. Please see the template.
⛔️Custom on fail: Set value to: []
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Discard unchanged with heartbeat: 6h

Item prototypes for Healthcheck discovery

Name Description Type Key and additional info

VMware: Health state rollup

The host health state rollup sensor value: gray - unknown, green - ok, red - it has a problem, yellow - it might have a problem.

Dependent item

vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{#SINGLETON}]

Preprocessing

JSON Path: The text is too long. Please see the template.

Trigger prototypes for Healthcheck discovery

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red	One or more components in the appliance might be in an unusable status and the appliance might become unresponsive soon. Security patches might be available.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{#SINGLETON}])="Red"`	High	Depends on: VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red
VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Yellow	One or more components in the appliance might become overloaded soon.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{#SINGLETON}])="Yellow"`	Average	Depends on: VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Yellow VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red

LLD rule Sensor discovery

Name Description Type Key and additional info

Sensor discovery

VMware hardware sensor discovery. The data is retrieved from numeric sensor probes and provides information about the health of the physical system.

Dependent item

vmware.hv.sensors.discovery

Preprocessing

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Discard unchanged with heartbeat: 6h

Item prototypes for Sensor discovery

Name Description Type Key and additional info

VMware: Sensor [{#NAME}] health state

VMware hardware sensor health state. One of the following:

- Unknown

- Green

- Yellow

- Red

Dependent item

vmware.hv.sensor.state["{#NAME}"]

Preprocessing

JSON Path: The text is too long. Please see the template.
JavaScript: The text is too long. Please see the template.
Discard unchanged with heartbeat: 6h

Trigger prototypes for Sensor discovery

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: Sensor [{#NAME}] health state is Red	One or more components in the appliance might be in an unusable status and the appliance might become unresponsive soon.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.sensor.state["{#NAME}"])=3`	High	Depends on: VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red
VMware: Sensor [{#NAME}] health state is Yellow	One or more components in the appliance might become overloaded soon.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.sensor.state["{#NAME}"])=2`	Average	Depends on: VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Yellow VMware: Sensor [{#NAME}] health state is Red

Feedback

Please report any issues with the template at https://support.zabbix.com

You can also provide feedback, discuss the template, or ask for help at ZABBIX forums

This template is for Zabbix version: 5.4

Also available for: 7.0 6.4 6.2 6.0 5.0 4.0

Source: https://git.zabbix.com/projects/ZBX/repos/zabbix/browse/templates/app/vmware?at=release/5.4

VMware

Overview

For Zabbix version: 5.4 and higher
The template to monitor VMware vCenter and ESX hypervisor. The "VMware Hypervisor" and "VMware Guest" templates are used by discovery and normally should not be manually linked to a host. For additional information please check https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/5.4/manual/vm_monitoring

Setup

Compile zabbix server with required options (--with-libxml2 and --with-libcurl)
Set the StartVMwareCollectors option in Zabbix server configuration file to 1 or more
Create a new host
Set the host macros (on host or template level) required for VMware authentication:

{$VMWARE.URL}
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}

Link the template to host created early

Zabbix configuration

No specific Zabbix configuration is required.

Template links

Name
VMware macros

Discovery rules

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Discover VMware clusters	Discovery of clusters	SIMPLE	vmware.cluster.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]
Discover VMware datastores	-	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]
Discover VMware hypervisors	Discovery of hypervisors.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]
Discover VMware VMs	Discovery of guest virtual machines.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]

Items collected

Group	Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware	VMware: Event log	Collect VMware event log. See also: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/5.4/manual/config/items/preprocessing/examples#filtering_vmware_event_log_records	SIMPLE	vmware.eventlog[{$VMWARE.URL},skip]
VMware	VMware: Full name	VMware service full name.	SIMPLE	vmware.fullname[{$VMWARE.URL}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Version	VMware service version.	SIMPLE	vmware.version[{$VMWARE.URL}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Status of "{#CLUSTER.NAME}" cluster	VMware cluster status.	SIMPLE	vmware.cluster.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{#CLUSTER.NAME}]
VMware	VMware: Average read latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Amount of time for a read operation from the datastore (milliseconds).	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},latency]
VMware	VMware: Free space on datastore {#DATASTORE} (percentage)	VMware datastore space in percentage from total.	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},pfree]
VMware	VMware: Total size of datastore {#DATASTORE}	VMware datastore space in bytes.	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE}]
VMware	VMware: Average write latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Amount of time for a write operation to the datastore (milliseconds).	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},latency]

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info

Feedback

Please report any issues with the template at https://support.zabbix.com

You can also provide a feedback, discuss the template or ask for help with it at ZABBIX forums.

VMware Guest

Overview

For Zabbix version: 5.4 and higher

Setup

Refer to the vendor documentation.

Zabbix configuration

No specific Zabbix configuration is required.

Template links

Name
VMware macros

Discovery rules

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Network device discovery	Discovery of all network devices.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
Disk device discovery	Discovery of all disk devices.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
Mounted filesystem discovery	Discovery of all guest file systems.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]

Items collected

Group	Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware	VMware: Cluster name	Cluster name of the guest VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cluster.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Number of virtual CPUs	Number of virtual CPUs assigned to the guest.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: CPU ready	Time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU during last measurement interval (VMware vCenter/ESXi Server performance counter sampling interval - 20 seconds)	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.ready[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: CPU usage	Current upper-bound on CPU usage. The upper-bound is based on the host the virtual machine is current running on, as well as limits configured on the virtual machine itself or any parent resource pool. Valid while the virtual machine is running.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Datacenter name	Datacenter name of the guest VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.datacenter.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Hypervisor name	Hypervisor name of the guest VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.hv.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Ballooned memory	The amount of guest physical memory that is currently reclaimed through the balloon driver.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.ballooned[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Compressed memory	The amount of memory currently in the compression cache for this VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.compressed[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Private memory	Amount of memory backed by host memory and not being shared.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.private[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Shared memory	The amount of guest physical memory shared through transparent page sharing.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.shared[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Swapped memory	The amount of guest physical memory swapped out to the VM's swap device by ESX.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.swapped[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Guest memory usage	The amount of guest physical memory that is being used by the VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.usage.guest[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Host memory usage	The amount of host physical memory allocated to the VM, accounting for saving from memory sharing with other VMs.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.usage.host[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Memory size	Total size of configured memory.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Power state	The current power state of the virtual machine.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.powerstate[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1h`
VMware	VMware: Committed storage space	Total storage space, in bytes, committed to this virtual machine across all datastores.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.committed[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Uncommitted storage space	Additional storage space, in bytes, potentially used by this virtual machine on all datastores.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.uncommitted[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Unshared storage space	Total storage space, in bytes, occupied by the virtual machine across all datastores, that is not shared with any other virtual machine.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.unshared[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Uptime	System uptime.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Guest memory swapped	Amount of guest physical memory that is swapped out to the swap space.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.guest.memory.size.swapped[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Host memory consumed	Amount of host physical memory consumed for backing up guest physical memory pages.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.consumed[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Host memory usage in percents	Percentage of host physical memory that has been consumed.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: CPU usage in percents	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.usage.perf[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: CPU latency in percents	Percentage of time the virtual machine is unable to run because it is contending for access to the physical CPU(s).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.latency[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: CPU readiness latency in percents	Percentage of time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.readiness[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: CPU swap-in latency in percents	Percentage of CPU time spent waiting for swap-in.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.swapwait[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Uptime of guest OS	Total time elapsed since the last operating system boot-up (in seconds).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.guest.osuptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Number of bytes received on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface input statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},bps]
VMware	VMware: Number of packets received on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface input statistics (packets per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},pps]
VMware	VMware: Number of bytes transmitted on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface output statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},bps]
VMware	VMware: Number of packets transmitted on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface output statistics (packets per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME},pps]
VMware	VMware: Network utilization on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network utilization (combined transmit-rates and receive-rates) during the interval.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#IFNAME}] Preprocessing: - MULTIPLIER: `1024`
VMware	VMware: Average number of bytes read from the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device read statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},bps]
VMware	VMware: Average number of reads from the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device read statistics (operations per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},ops]
VMware	VMware: Average number of bytes written to the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device write statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},bps]
VMware	VMware: Average number of writes to the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device write statistics (operations per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME},ops]
VMware	VMware: Average number of outstanding read requests to the disk {#DISKDESC}	Average number of outstanding read requests to the virtual disk during the collection interval.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.readoio[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]
VMware	VMware: Average number of outstanding write requests to the disk {#DISKDESC}	Average number of outstanding write requests to the virtual disk during the collection interval.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.writeoio[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]
VMware	VMware: Average write latency to the disk {#DISKDESC}	The average time a write to the virtual disk takes.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.totalwritelatency[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]
VMware	VMware: Average read latency to the disk {#DISKDESC}	The average time a read from the virtual disk takes.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.totalreadlatency[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#DISKNAME}]
VMware	VMware: Free disk space on {#FSNAME}	VMware virtual machine file system statistics (bytes).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},free]
VMware	VMware: Free disk space on {#FSNAME} (percentage)	VMware virtual machine file system statistics (percentages).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},pfree]
VMware	VMware: Total disk space on {#FSNAME}	VMware virtual machine total disk space (bytes).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},total] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Used disk space on {#FSNAME}	VMware virtual machine used disk space (bytes).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID},{#FSNAME},used]

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: VM has been restarted (uptime < 10m)	Uptime is less than 10 minutes	`last(/VMware Guest/vmware.vm.guest.osuptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.VM.UUID}])<10m`	WARNING	Manual close: YES

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VMware Hypervisor

Overview

For Zabbix version: 5.4 and higher

Setup

Refer to the vendor documentation.

Zabbix configuration

No specific Zabbix configuration is required.

Template links

Name
VMware macros

Discovery rules

Name Description Type Key and additional info

Datastore discovery

-

SIMPLE

vmware.hv.datastore.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]

Healthcheck discovery

VMware Rollup Health State sensor discovery

DEPENDENT

vmware.hv.healthcheck.discovery

Preprocessing:

- JSONPATH: $..HostNumericSensorInfo[?(@.name=="VMware Rollup Health State")]

- JAVASCRIPT: return JSON.stringify(value != "[]" ? [{'{#SINGLETON}': ''}] : []);

- DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: 6h

Items collected

Group	Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware	VMware: Hypervisor ping	Checks if the hypervisor is running and accepting ICMP pings.	SIMPLE	icmpping[] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `10m`
VMware	VMware: Cluster name	Cluster name of the guest VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.cluster.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: CPU usage	Aggregated CPU usage across all cores on the host in Hz. This is only available if the host is connected.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.cpu.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: CPU usage in percents	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.cpu.usage.perf[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: CPU utilization	CPU usage as a percentage during the interval depends on power management or HT.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.cpu.utilization[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Power usage	Current power usage.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.power[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Power usage maximum allowed	Maximum allowed power usage.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.power[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},max] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `6h`
VMware	VMware: Datacenter name	Datacenter name of the hypervisor.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datacenter.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Full name	The complete product name, including the version information.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.fullname[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: CPU frequency	The speed of the CPU cores. This is an average value if there are multiple speeds. The product of CPU frequency and number of cores is approximately equal to the sum of the MHz for all the individual cores on the host.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.freq[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: CPU model	The CPU model.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.model[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: CPU cores	Number of physical CPU cores on the host. Physical CPU cores are the processors contained by a CPU package.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: CPU threads	Number of physical CPU threads on the host.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.threads[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Total memory	The physical memory size.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.memory[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Model	The system model identification.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.model[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Bios UUID	The hardware BIOS identification.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.uuid[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Vendor	The hardware vendor identification.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.vendor[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Ballooned memory	The amount of guest physical memory that is currently reclaimed through the balloon driver. Sum of all guest VMs.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.memory.size.ballooned[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Used memory	Physical memory usage on the host.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.memory.used[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Number of bytes received	VMware hypervisor network input statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.network.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},bps]
VMware	VMware: Number of bytes transmitted	VMware hypervisor network output statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.network.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},bps]
VMware	VMware: Overall status	The overall alarm status of the host: gray - unknown, green - ok, red - it has a problem, yellow - it might have a problem.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Uptime	System uptime.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Version	Dot-separated version string.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.version[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Number of guest VMs	Number of guest virtual machines.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.vm.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]
VMware	VMware: Average read latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Average amount of time for a read operation from the datastore (milliseconds).	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datastore.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},latency]
VMware	VMware: Free space on datastore {#DATASTORE} (percentage)	VMware datastore space in percentage from total.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},pfree]
VMware	VMware: Total size of datastore {#DATASTORE}	VMware datastore space in bytes.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}]
VMware	VMware: Average write latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Average amount of time for a write operation to the datastore (milliseconds).	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datastore.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE},latency]
VMware	VMware: Multipath count for datastore {#DATASTORE}	Number of available datastore paths.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}]
VMware	VMware: Health state rollup	The host health state rollup sensor value: gray - unknown, green - ok, red - it has a problem, yellow - it might have a problem.	DEPENDENT	vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{#SINGLETON}] Preprocessing: - JSONPATH: `$..HostNumericSensorInfo[?(@.name=="VMware Rollup Health State")].healthState.label.first()`
Zabbix raw items	VMware: Get sensors	Master item for sensors data.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.sensors.get[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}]

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: Hypervisor is down	The service is unavailable or does not accept ICMP ping.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/icmpping[])=0`	AVERAGE	Manual close: YES
VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red	One or more components in the appliance might be in an unusable status and the appliance might become unresponsive soon. Security patches might be available.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}])=3`	HIGH
VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Yellow	One or more components in the appliance might become overloaded soon.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}])=2`	AVERAGE	Depends on: - VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red
VMware: Hypervisor has been restarted (uptime < 10m)	Uptime is less than 10 minutes	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID}])<10m`	WARNING	Manual close: YES
VMware: The multipath count has been changed	The number of available datastore paths less than registered ({#MULTIPATH.COUNT}).	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}],#1)<>last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}],#2) and last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.datastore.multipath[{$VMWARE.URL},{$VMWARE.HV.UUID},{#DATASTORE}])<{#MULTIPATH.COUNT}`	AVERAGE	Manual close: YES
VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red	One or more components in the appliance might be in an unusable status and the appliance might become unresponsive soon. Security patches might be available.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{#SINGLETON}])="Red"`	HIGH	Depends on: - VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red
VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Yellow	One or more components in the appliance might become overloaded soon.	`last(/VMware Hypervisor/vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{#SINGLETON}])="Yellow"`	AVERAGE	Depends on: - VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red - VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Red - VMware: The {$VMWARE.HV.UUID} health is Yellow

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VMware macros

Overview

For Zabbix version: 5.4 and higher

Setup

Refer to the vendor documentation.

Zabbix configuration

No specific Zabbix configuration is required.

Macros used

Name	Description	Default
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}	VMware service {$USERNAME} user password	``
{$VMWARE.URL}	VMware service (vCenter or ESX hypervisor) SDK URL (https://servername/sdk)	``
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}	VMware service user name	``

Template links

There are no template links in this template.

Discovery rules

Items collected

Group	Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info

Feedback

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This template is for Zabbix version: 5.0

Also available for: 7.0 6.4 6.2 6.0 5.4 4.0

Source: https://git.zabbix.com/projects/ZBX/repos/zabbix/browse/templates/app/vmware?at=release/5.0

Template VM VMware

Overview

For Zabbix version: 5.0 and higher
The template to monitor VMware vCenter and ESX hypervisor. The "VMware Hypervisor" and "VMware Guest" templates are used by discovery and normally should not be manually linked to a host. For additional information please check https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/5.0/manual/vm_monitoring

Setup

Compile zabbix server with required options (--with-libxml2 and --with-libcurl)
Set the StartVMwareCollectors option in Zabbix server configuration file to 1 or more
Create a new host
Set the host macros (on host or template level) required for VMware authentication:

{$VMWARE.URL}
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}

Link the template to host created early

Zabbix configuration

No specific Zabbix configuration is required.

Template links

Name
VMware macros

Discovery rules

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Discover VMware clusters	Discovery of clusters	SIMPLE	vmware.cluster.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]
Discover VMware datastores	-	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]
Discover VMware hypervisors	Discovery of hypervisors.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]
Discover VMware VMs	Discovery of guest virtual machines.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]

Items collected

Group	Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware	VMware: Event log	Collect VMware event log. See also: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/5.0/manual/config/items/preprocessing/examples#filtering_vmware_event_log_records	SIMPLE	vmware.eventlog[{$VMWARE.URL},skip]
VMware	VMware: Full name	VMware service full name.	SIMPLE	vmware.fullname[{$VMWARE.URL}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Version	VMware service version.	SIMPLE	vmware.version[{$VMWARE.URL}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Status of "{#CLUSTER.NAME}" cluster	VMware cluster status.	SIMPLE	vmware.cluster.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{#CLUSTER.NAME}]
VMware	VMware: Average read latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Amount of time for a read operation from the datastore (milliseconds).	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},latency]
VMware	VMware: Free space on datastore {#DATASTORE} (percentage)	VMware datastore space in percentage from total.	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},pfree]
VMware	VMware: Total size of datastore {#DATASTORE}	VMware datastore space in bytes.	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE}]
VMware	VMware: Average write latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Amount of time for a write operation to the datastore (milliseconds).	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},latency]

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info

Feedback

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Template VM VMware Guest

Overview

For Zabbix version: 5.0 and higher

Setup

Refer to the vendor documentation.

Zabbix configuration

No specific Zabbix configuration is required.

Template links

Name
VMware macros

Discovery rules

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Network device discovery	Discovery of all network devices.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
Disk device discovery	Discovery of all disk devices.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
Mounted filesystem discovery	Discovery of all guest file systems.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]

Items collected

Group	Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware	VMware: Cluster name	Cluster name of the guest VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cluster.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Number of virtual CPUs	Number of virtual CPUs assigned to the guest.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: CPU ready	Time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU during last measurement interval (VMware vCenter/ESXi Server performance counter sampling interval - 20 seconds)	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.ready[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: CPU usage	Current upper-bound on CPU usage. The upper-bound is based on the host the virtual machine is current running on, as well as limits configured on the virtual machine itself or any parent resource pool. Valid while the virtual machine is running.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Datacenter name	Datacenter name of the guest VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.datacenter.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Hypervisor name	Hypervisor name of the guest VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.hv.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Ballooned memory	The amount of guest physical memory that is currently reclaimed through the balloon driver.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.ballooned[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Compressed memory	The amount of memory currently in the compression cache for this VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.compressed[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Private memory	Amount of memory backed by host memory and not being shared.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.private[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Shared memory	The amount of guest physical memory shared through transparent page sharing.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.shared[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Swapped memory	The amount of guest physical memory swapped out to the VM's swap device by ESX.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.swapped[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Guest memory usage	The amount of guest physical memory that is being used by the VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.usage.guest[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Host memory usage	The amount of host physical memory allocated to the VM, accounting for saving from memory sharing with other VMs.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.usage.host[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Memory size	Total size of configured memory.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Power state	The current power state of the virtual machine.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.powerstate[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1h`
VMware	VMware: Committed storage space	Total storage space, in bytes, committed to this virtual machine across all datastores.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.committed[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Uncommitted storage space	Additional storage space, in bytes, potentially used by this virtual machine on all datastores.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.uncommitted[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Unshared storage space	Total storage space, in bytes, occupied by the virtual machine across all datastores, that is not shared with any other virtual machine.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.unshared[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Uptime	System uptime.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Number of bytes received on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface input statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#IFNAME},bps]
VMware	VMware: Number of packets received on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface input statistics (packets per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#IFNAME},pps]
VMware	VMware: Number of bytes transmitted on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface output statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#IFNAME},bps]
VMware	VMware: Number of packets transmitted on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface output statistics (packets per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#IFNAME},pps]
VMware	VMware: Average number of bytes read from the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device read statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#DISKNAME},bps]
VMware	VMware: Average number of reads from the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device read statistics (operations per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#DISKNAME},ops]
VMware	VMware: Average number of bytes written to the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device write statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#DISKNAME},bps]
VMware	VMware: Average number of writes to the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device write statistics (operations per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#DISKNAME},ops]
VMware	VMware: Free disk space on {#FSNAME}	VMware virtual machine file system statistics (bytes).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#FSNAME},free]
VMware	VMware: Free disk space on {#FSNAME} (percentage)	VMware virtual machine file system statistics (percentages).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#FSNAME},pfree]
VMware	VMware: Total disk space on {#FSNAME}	VMware virtual machine total disk space (bytes).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#FSNAME},total] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Used disk space on {#FSNAME}	VMware virtual machine used disk space (bytes).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#FSNAME},used]

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: {HOST.HOST} has been restarted (uptime < 10m)	Uptime is less than 10 minutes.	`{TEMPLATE_NAME:vmware.vm.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}].last()}<10m`	WARNING	Manual close: YES

Feedback

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Template VM VMware Hypervisor

Overview

For Zabbix version: 5.0 and higher

Setup

Refer to the vendor documentation.

Zabbix configuration

No specific Zabbix configuration is required.

Template links

Name
VMware macros

Discovery rules

Name Description Type Key and additional info

Datastore discovery

-

SIMPLE

vmware.hv.datastore.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]

Healthcheck discovery

VMware Rollup Health State sensor discovery

DEPENDENT

vmware.hv.healthcheck.discovery

Preprocessing:

- JSONPATH: $..HostNumericSensorInfo[?(@.name=="VMware Rollup Health State")]

- JAVASCRIPT: return JSON.stringify(value != "[]" ? [{'{#SINGLETON}': ''}] : []);

- DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: 6h

Items collected

Group	Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware	VMware: Hypervisor ping	Checks if the hypervisor is running and accepting ICMP pings.	SIMPLE	icmpping[] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `10m`
VMware	VMware: Cluster name	Cluster name of the guest VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.cluster.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: CPU usage	Aggregated CPU usage across all cores on the host in Hz. This is only available if the host is connected.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.cpu.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Datacenter name	Datacenter name of the hypervisor.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datacenter.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Full name	The complete product name, including the version information.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.fullname[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: CPU frequency	The speed of the CPU cores. This is an average value if there are multiple speeds. The product of CPU frequency and number of cores is approximately equal to the sum of the MHz for all the individual cores on the host.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.freq[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: CPU model	The CPU model.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.model[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: CPU cores	Number of physical CPU cores on the host. Physical CPU cores are the processors contained by a CPU package.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: CPU threads	Number of physical CPU threads on the host.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.threads[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Total memory	The physical memory size.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.memory[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Model	The system model identification.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.model[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Bios UUID	The hardware BIOS identification.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.uuid[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Vendor	The hardware vendor identification.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.vendor[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Ballooned memory	The amount of guest physical memory that is currently reclaimed through the balloon driver. Sum of all guest VMs.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.memory.size.ballooned[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Used memory	Physical memory usage on the host.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.memory.used[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Number of bytes received	VMware hypervisor network input statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.network.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},bps]
VMware	VMware: Number of bytes transmitted	VMware hypervisor network output statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.network.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},bps]
VMware	VMware: Overall status	The overall alarm status of the host: gray - unknown, green - ok, red - it has a problem, yellow - it might have a problem.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Uptime	System uptime.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Version	Dot-separated version string.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.version[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Number of guest VMs	Number of guest virtual machines.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.vm.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Average read latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Average amount of time for a read operation from the datastore (milliseconds).	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datastore.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#DATASTORE},latency]
VMware	VMware: Free space on datastore {#DATASTORE} (percentage)	VMware datastore space in percentage from total.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#DATASTORE},pfree]
VMware	VMware: Total size of datastore {#DATASTORE}	VMware datastore space in bytes.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#DATASTORE}]
VMware	VMware: Average write latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Average amount of time for a write operation to the datastore (milliseconds).	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datastore.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#DATASTORE},latency]
VMware	VMware: Health state rollup	The host health state rollup sensor value: gray - unknown, green - ok, red - it has a problem, yellow - it might have a problem.	DEPENDENT	vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{#SINGLETON}] Preprocessing: - JSONPATH: `$..HostNumericSensorInfo[?(@.name=="VMware Rollup Health State")].healthState.label.first()`
Zabbix_raw_items	VMware: Get sensors	Master item for sensors data.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.sensors.get[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: Hypervisor is down	The service is unavailable or does not accept ICMP ping.	`{TEMPLATE_NAME:icmpping[].last()}=0`	AVERAGE	Manual close: YES
VMware: The {HOST.HOST} health is Red	One or more components in the appliance might be in an unusable status and the appliance might become unresponsive soon. Security patches might be available.	`{TEMPLATE_NAME:vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}].last()}=3`	HIGH
VMware: The {HOST.HOST} health is Yellow	One or more components in the appliance might become overloaded soon.	`{TEMPLATE_NAME:vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}].last()}=2`	AVERAGE	Depends on: - VMware: The {HOST.HOST} health is Red
VMware: Hypervisor has been restarted (uptime < 10m)	Uptime is less than 10 minutes	`{TEMPLATE_NAME:vmware.hv.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}].last()}<10m`	WARNING	Manual close: YES
VMware: The {HOST.HOST} health is Red	One or more components in the appliance might be in an unusable status and the appliance might become unresponsive soon. Security patches might be available.	`{TEMPLATE_NAME:vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{#SINGLETON}].str("Red")}=1`	HIGH
VMware: The {HOST.HOST} health is Yellow	One or more components in the appliance might become overloaded soon.	`{TEMPLATE_NAME:vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{#SINGLETON}].str("Yellow")}=1`	AVERAGE	Depends on: - VMware: The {HOST.HOST} health is Red

Feedback

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Template VM VMware macros

Overview

For Zabbix version: 5.0 and higher

Setup

Refer to the vendor documentation.

Zabbix configuration

No specific Zabbix configuration is required.

Macros used

Name	Description	Default
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}	VMware service {$USERNAME} user password	``
{$VMWARE.URL}	VMware service (vCenter or ESX hypervisor) SDK URL (https://servername/sdk)	``
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}	VMware service user name	``

Template links

There are no template links in this template.

Discovery rules

Items collected

Group	Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info

Feedback

Please report any issues with the template at https://support.zabbix.com

This template is for Zabbix version: 4.0

Also available for: 7.0 6.4 6.2 6.0 5.4 5.0

Source: https://git.zabbix.com/projects/ZBX/repos/zabbix/browse/templates/app/vmware?at=release/4.0

Template VM VMware macros

Overview

For Zabbix version: 4.0

Setup

Refer to the vendor documentation.

Zabbix configuration

No specific Zabbix configuration is required.

Macros used

Name	Description	Default
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}	VMware service {$USERNAME} user password	``
{$VMWARE.URL}	VMware service (vCenter or ESX hypervisor) SDK URL (https://servername/sdk)	``
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}	VMware service user name	``

Template links

There are no template links in this template.

Discovery rules

Items collected

Group	Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info

Feedback

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Template VM VMware

Overview

For Zabbix version: 4.0
The template to monitor VMware vCenter and ESX hypervisor. The "Template VM VMware Hypervisor" and "Template VM VMware Guest" templates are used by discovery and normally should not be manually linked to a host. For additional information please check https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/manual/vm_monitoring

Setup

Compile zabbix server with required options (--with-libxml2 and --with-libcurl)
Set the StartVMwareCollectors option in Zabbix server configuration file to 1 or more
Create a new host
Set the host macros (on host or template level) required for VMware authentication:

{$VMWARE.URL}
{$VMWARE.USERNAME}
{$VMWARE.PASSWORD}

Link the template to host created early

Zabbix configuration

No specific Zabbix configuration is required.

Template links

Name
Template VM VMware macros

Discovery rules

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Discover VMware clusters	Discovery of clusters	SIMPLE	vmware.cluster.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]
Discover VMware datastores	-	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]
Discover VMware hypervisors	Discovery of hypervisors.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]
Discover VMware VMs	Discovery of guest virtual machines.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL}]

Items collected

Group	Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware	VMware: Event log	Collect VMware event log. See also: https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/current/manual/config/items/preprocessing/examples#filtering_vmware_event_log_records	SIMPLE	vmware.eventlog[{$VMWARE.URL},skip]
VMware	VMware: Full name	VMware service full name.	SIMPLE	vmware.fullname[{$VMWARE.URL}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Version	VMware service version.	SIMPLE	vmware.version[{$VMWARE.URL}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Status of "{#CLUSTER.NAME}" cluster	VMware cluster status.	SIMPLE	vmware.cluster.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{#CLUSTER.NAME}]
VMware	VMware: Average read latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Amount of time for a read operation from the datastore (milliseconds).	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},latency]
VMware	VMware: Free space on datastore {#DATASTORE} (percentage)	VMware datastore space in percentage from total.	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},pfree]
VMware	VMware: Total size of datastore {#DATASTORE}	VMware datastore space in bytes.	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE}]
VMware	VMware: Average write latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Amount of time for a write operation to the datastore (milliseconds).	SIMPLE	vmware.datastore.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{#DATASTORE},latency]

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info

Feedback

Please report any issues with the template at https://support.zabbix.com

You can also provide a feedback, discuss the template or ask for help with it at ZABBIX forums.

Template VM VMware Guest

Overview

For Zabbix version: 4.0

Setup

Refer to the vendor documentation.

Zabbix configuration

No specific Zabbix configuration is required.

Template links

Name
Template VM VMware macros

Discovery rules

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Network device discovery	Discovery of all network devices.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
Disk device discovery	Discovery of all disk devices.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
Mounted filesystem discovery	Discovery of all guest file systems.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]

Items collected

Group	Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware	VMware: Cluster name	Cluster name of the guest VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cluster.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Number of virtual CPUs	Number of virtual CPUs assigned to the guest.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: CPU ready	Time that the virtual machine was ready, but could not get scheduled to run on the physical CPU during last measurement interval (VMware vCenter/ESXi Server performance counter sampling interval - 20 seconds)	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.ready[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: CPU usage	Current upper-bound on CPU usage. The upper-bound is based on the host the virtual machine is current running on, as well as limits configured on the virtual machine itself or any parent resource pool. Valid while the virtual machine is running.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.cpu.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Datacenter name	Datacenter name of the guest VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.datacenter.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Hypervisor name	Hypervisor name of the guest VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.hv.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Ballooned memory	The amount of guest physical memory that is currently reclaimed through the balloon driver.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.ballooned[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Compressed memory	The amount of memory currently in the compression cache for this VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.compressed[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Private memory	Amount of memory backed by host memory and not being shared.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.private[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Shared memory	The amount of guest physical memory shared through transparent page sharing.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.shared[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Swapped memory	The amount of guest physical memory swapped out to the VM's swap device by ESX.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.swapped[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Guest memory usage	The amount of guest physical memory that is being used by the VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.usage.guest[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Host memory usage	The amount of host physical memory allocated to the VM, accounting for saving from memory sharing with other VMs.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size.usage.host[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Memory size	Total size of configured memory.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.memory.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Power state	The current power state of the virtual machine.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.powerstate[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1h`
VMware	VMware: Committed storage space	Total storage space, in bytes, committed to this virtual machine across all datastores.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.committed[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Uncommitted storage space	Additional storage space, in bytes, potentially used by this virtual machine on all datastores.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.uncommitted[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Unshared storage space	Total storage space, in bytes, occupied by the virtual machine across all datastores, that is not shared with any other virtual machine.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.storage.unshared[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Uptime	System uptime.	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Number of bytes received on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface input statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#IFNAME},bps]
VMware	VMware: Number of packets received on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface input statistics (packets per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#IFNAME},pps]
VMware	VMware: Number of bytes transmitted on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface output statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#IFNAME},bps]
VMware	VMware: Number of packets transmitted on interface {#IFDESC}	VMware virtual machine network interface output statistics (packets per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.net.if.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#IFNAME},pps]
VMware	VMware: Average number of bytes read from the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device read statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#DISKNAME},bps]
VMware	VMware: Average number of reads from the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device read statistics (operations per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#DISKNAME},ops]
VMware	VMware: Average number of bytes written to the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device write statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#DISKNAME},bps]
VMware	VMware: Average number of writes to the disk {#DISKDESC}	VMware virtual machine disk device write statistics (operations per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.dev.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#DISKNAME},ops]
VMware	VMware: Free disk space on {#FSNAME}	VMware virtual machine file system statistics (bytes).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#FSNAME},free]
VMware	VMware: Free disk space on {#FSNAME} (percentage)	VMware virtual machine file system statistics (percentages).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#FSNAME},pfree]
VMware	VMware: Total disk space on {#FSNAME}	VMware virtual machine total disk space (bytes).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#FSNAME},total] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Used disk space on {#FSNAME}	VMware virtual machine used disk space (bytes).	SIMPLE	vmware.vm.vfs.fs.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#FSNAME},used]

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: {HOST.HOST} has been restarted (uptime < 10m)	Uptime is less than 10 minutes	`{TEMPLATE_NAME:vmware.vm.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}].last()}<10m`	WARNING	Manual close: YES

Feedback

Please report any issues with the template at https://support.zabbix.com

Template VM VMware Hypervisor

Overview

For Zabbix version: 4.0

Setup

Refer to the vendor documentation.

Zabbix configuration

No specific Zabbix configuration is required.

Template links

Name
Template VM VMware macros

Discovery rules

Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
Datastore discovery	-	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datastore.discovery[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]

Items collected

Group	Name	Description	Type	Key and additional info
VMware	VMware: Cluster name	Cluster name of the guest VM.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.cluster.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: CPU usage	Aggregated CPU usage across all cores on the host in Hz. This is only available if the host is connected.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.cpu.usage[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Datacenter name	Datacenter name of the hypervisor.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datacenter.name[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: Full name	The complete product name, including the version information.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.fullname[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: CPU frequency	The speed of the CPU cores. This is an average value if there are multiple speeds. The product of CPU frequency and number of cores is approximately equal to the sum of the MHz for all the individual cores on the host.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.freq[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: CPU model	The CPU model.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.model[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: CPU cores	Number of physical CPU cores on the host. Physical CPU cores are the processors contained by a CPU package.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}] Preprocessing: - DISCARD_UNCHANGED_HEARTBEAT: `1d`
VMware	VMware: CPU threads	Number of physical CPU threads on the host.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.cpu.threads[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Total memory	The physical memory size.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.memory[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Model	The system model identification.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.model[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Bios UUID	The hardware BIOS identification.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.uuid[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Vendor	The hardware vendor identification.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.hw.vendor[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Ballooned memory	The amount of guest physical memory that is currently reclaimed through the balloon driver. Sum of all guest VMs.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.memory.size.ballooned[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Used memory	Physical memory usage on the host.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.memory.used[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Number of bytes received	VMware hypervisor network input statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.network.in[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},bps]
VMware	VMware: Number of bytes transmitted	VMware hypervisor network output statistics (bytes per second).	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.network.out[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},bps]
VMware	VMware: Health state rollup	The host health state rollup sensor value: gray - unknown, green - ok, red - it has a problem, yellow - it might have a problem.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Overall status	The overall alarm status of the host: gray - unknown, green - ok, red - it has a problem, yellow - it might have a problem.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Uptime	System uptime.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Version	Dot-separated version string.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.version[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Number of guest VMs	Number of guest virtual machines.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.vm.num[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}]
VMware	VMware: Average read latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Average amount of time for a read operation from the datastore (milliseconds).	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datastore.read[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#DATASTORE},latency]
VMware	VMware: Free space on datastore {#DATASTORE} (percentage)	VMware datastore space in percentage from total.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#DATASTORE},pfree]
VMware	VMware: Total size of datastore {#DATASTORE}	VMware datastore space in bytes.	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datastore.size[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#DATASTORE}]
VMware	VMware: Average write latency of the datastore {#DATASTORE}	Average amount of time for a write operation to the datastore (milliseconds).	SIMPLE	vmware.hv.datastore.write[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST},{#DATASTORE},latency]

Triggers

Name	Description	Expression	Severity	Dependencies and additional info
VMware: The {HOST.HOST} health is Red	One or more components in the appliance might be in an unusable status and the appliance might become unresponsive soon. Security patches might be available.	`{TEMPLATE_NAME:vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}].last()}=3`	HIGH	Depends on: - VMware: The {HOST.HOST} health is Red
VMware: The {HOST.HOST} health is Yellow	One or more components in the appliance might become overloaded soon.	`{TEMPLATE_NAME:vmware.hv.sensor.health.state[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}].last()}=2`	AVERAGE	Depends on: - VMware: The {HOST.HOST} health is Red - VMware: The {HOST.HOST} health is Red - VMware: The {HOST.HOST} health is Yellow
VMware: The {HOST.HOST} health is Red	One or more components in the appliance might be in an unusable status and the appliance might become unresponsive soon. Security patches might be available.	`{TEMPLATE_NAME:vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}].last()}=3`	HIGH
VMware: The {HOST.HOST} health is Yellow	One or more components in the appliance might become overloaded soon.	`{TEMPLATE_NAME:vmware.hv.status[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}].last()}=2`	AVERAGE	Depends on: - VMware: The {HOST.HOST} health is Red
VMware: {HOST.HOST} has been restarted (uptime < 10m)	Uptime is less than 10 minutes	`{TEMPLATE_NAME:vmware.hv.uptime[{$VMWARE.URL},{HOST.HOST}].last()}<10m`	WARNING	Manual close: YES

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