Here we will examine the available tools for VMware-related monitoring. We will cover tools available from VMware and select third parties.
VMware has provided a tool for View Event monitoring, this tool monitors your View event database and will send out e-mails when warnings or errors are found. This tool is one of the quickest ways to know when there is a problem with your view environment. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, this tool is not set up to run as a service and must be run with a logged in account.
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Horizon View Event Notifier can be found on VMware's website: https://labs.vmware.com/flings/horizon-view-event-notifier
RVTools is a freeware tool made by Rob de Veij. It will log into the vSphere host or vCenter host and will provide a neatly formatted table of nearly every aspect of the virtual environment. In particular, it is very good at discovering unnecessary snapshots, unnecessary CDs attached to VMs, low disk...