Tool: VMware Health Check Report
William Lam, a UNIX Systems Administrator at Salesforce.com, popular in the virtualization community, develops a Perl script which scans VMware ESX/ESXi hosts and vSphere vCenter servers and reports the status of number of aspects.
Called VMware Health Check Report, it reached version 4.0 yesterday, offering very welcome new capabilities:
- Report is now completely modular in which categories to display via a configuration file
- Ability to specify specific ESX/ESXi host to query
- Ability to specify specific Virtual Mchines to query
- vCenter HA Advanced Runtime information
- vCenter HA Configuration (primary/secondary and node states)
- vCenter HA Advanced Configurations
- vCenter DRS Advanced Runtime information
- ESX/ESXi IP/HOSTNAME of vCenter Management IP
- ESX/ESXi Newly improved Hardware and System Health Stuats information
- ESX/ESXi Advanced Configurations
- ESX/ESXi NUMA information
- VM UUID,Bootime,Resource Statistics, Fault Tolerance, Thin provisioned and NPIV information
The list of aspects that it was already able to check is impressive
- vCenter Managed IP per ESX(i) host
- vCenter User/Group Permissions
- Added Host & SCSI LUN Model attribute
- Added Host boottime
- Additional LUN Mapping information including Datastore,VolumeUUID,DiskName and DeviceName
- VM portgroup + dvportgroup mapping
- Performance Stats for both Cluster + Hosts (cpu/mem avg + %)
- Performance Stats for VM (cpu/mem avg + %, ready & ballon)
- Email report capability
- Added additional command line options for including Cluster,Host and VM Performance stats (default: off)
- New licensing format/summary
- EVC Enabled information
- Cluster VM monitoring
- Cluster Host monitoring}
- # off VMotions within a cluster
- Datastore uncommitted info
- CPU power management info
- VM info (FT, Record/Replay, Clean Poweroff)
- Host IPv6, FT, SSL Thumbprint
- Host Profiles
- vApp information
- Distributed vSwitch information}
- vCenter Build/Release
- Active Sessions
- ESX/ESXi Build/Release
- Cluster(s) Name/Statistics (Hosts,CPU and MEM availabity, HA,DRS and DPM enabled, Resource Pools, Health)
- ESX/ESXi Hardware configuration (NICs/HBAs)
- ESX/ESXi Hardware Health Sensor via CIM
- ESX/ESXi State
- ESX/ESXi Configurations (for detailed information, use detail-hosts option)
- ESX/ESXi Multipathing Info (only available in host or detail-hosts option)
- ESX/ESXi Datastore summary
- ESX/ESXi LUN summary
- ESX/ESXi Portgroup summary
- ESX/ESXi Hostd logs
- CDP Summary
- Recent Tasks
- Virtual Machine summary
- VM Storage summary
- VM Network summary
- VM w/Snapshots
- VM w/Snapshot delta age
- VM w/RDMs
- VM w/NPIV enabled
- VM w/connected CD-ROMs
- VM w/connected Floppys
Here’s a sample report that the tool can generate.
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