When installing ESXi on a vendor-based piece of hardware like HP, be sure to always search for custom ISO’s that contain drivers to improve integration between hardware and software.

HP SIM is out-of-scope for this article, but if you would like to know more about the solution, please follow this link. In the newer ProLiant generations, it’s possible to monitor your hardware with HP SIM without the need for installing agents inside your OS (agentless monitoring). More information about HP System Management, including HP SMH can be found here.Īnother tool, meant for centrally managing and monitoring HP ProLiant servers and possible other hardware in your environment, is HP SIM (Systems Insight Manager). This is a tiny webserver which enables you to drill down into each component of your physical server and see the status of your storage controllers, disks, memory modules, CPU’s, temperatures etcetera. Some of this information is also available through the iLO (integrated Lights-Out) interface, but is less detailed the using the HP SMH. As mentioned, installing your OS with HP Intelligent Provisioning enables you to maximize visibility of health and your configuration using tools like HP System Management Homepage (SMH). Monitoring system health in a vSphere environment is very important, as many workloads depend on a stable virtualization platform.

If you’re managing HP ProLiant servers running Windows or Linux, you are probably familiar with HP Intelligent Provisioning (previously HP SmartStart). Using this solution, a server will be supplied with the latest firmware and driver levels, next to installing management software to interact directly with iLO, storage controllers and monitor system health. This isn’t possible with ESXi as an operating system, but there are other ways to realize these interactions. If you have any feedback or information I should add to this article, please share them with me! This post is based on vSphere ESXi 5.x Monitoring HP ProLiant servers This post is a collection of multiple tools and methods I came across in my career. Are you looking for additional ways of efficiently managing your HP ProLiant servers that have ESXi installed? Read on to learn more about monitoring vSphere hosts and alternatives for managing your HP hardware.

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