Research Article
Monitoring Resources and Snapshots on VMware Infrastructure
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.23-11-2023.2343224, author={Prathiba Lakshmi Narayan and Siddharth Shankar Das and Gopi S and Kritika Agrawal and Suganya R}, title={Monitoring Resources and Snapshots on VMware Infrastructure}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Communication, IoT, Data Engineering and Security, IACIDS 2023, 23-25 November 2023, Lavasa, Pune, India}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={IACIDS}, year={2024}, month={3}, keywords={vmware esxi snapshots virtualization data center go}, doi={10.4108/eai.23-11-2023.2343224} }- Prathiba Lakshmi Narayan
Siddharth Shankar Das
Gopi S
Kritika Agrawal
Suganya R
Year: 2024
Monitoring Resources and Snapshots on VMware Infrastructure
IACIDS
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.23-11-2023.2343224
Abstract
In today's resource-intensive virtualized environments, efficient management of resources is crucial to ensureoptimal performance and prevent resource bottlenecks. When the resources are scaled, managing and monitoring them becomes difficult therefore, there comes a need of automating managing, monitoring, and alerting and taking precautionary measures in order to save the hardware from degrading or damaging. There are instances when the hardware is under-utilized or over-utilized, in both scenarios the hardware is not being optimally used. This paper presents a comprehensive approach to monitor VMware resources using the Go programming language and GOVCtool. We utilized VMware ESXi servers as the virtualization platform and vCenter to create a centralized datacenter. Wepresent the architecture, implementation details including all attempts to emulate a datacenter, and results of our system,to successfully automate snapshot deletion. Our solution serves as a valuable tool for administrators and organizations seeking to streamline resource management in VMware ESXi-based datacenters.