Can Splunk monitor vmWare vSphere version 4 update 1?

[jones4bob]

Can Splunk monitor vmWare vSphere version 4 update 1?

[gavind]

Thanks a lot for the link that you've sent. I am now able to send logs to my syslog server.

[icereval]

If your asking about monitoring your VMware Environment VM CPU/Datastores/Snapshots etc..., not the syslogs/vcenter logs then you can use: http://www.splunk.com/wiki/Apps:Splunk_for_VMWare (links at the bottom).

In our case I've modified the source of the Java application to return the proper names of the VM's.

If you have questions I'd be happy to answer questions.

[ljoshi · Accepted solution]

Yes - it can. Just configure your ESX servers to send logs over syslog to your Splunk server like this http://www.splunk.com/wiki/Community:VMwareESXSyslog and you should be able to monitor ESX. if you also want visibility into performance metrics etc, we have a Splunk app going into beta shortly that can pull metrics, logs and configurations. For more info on this - read http://blogs.splunk.com/2010/04/13/splunk-your-vmware-environment/