Zabbix and VMware

[zabbix_user84]

Hi everybody,

Could you please explain me what does "service" mean in this documentation : https://www.zabbix.com/documentation.../vm_monitoring
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The following configuration file options can be used to tune the Virtual machine monitoring:

• StartVMwareCollectors - the number of pre-forked vmware collector instances.
  This value depends on the number of VMware services you are going to monitor. For the most cases this should be:
  servicenum < StartVMwareCollectors < (servicenum * 2)
  where servicenum is the number of VMware services. E. g. if you have 1 VMware service to monitor set StartVMwareCollectors to 2, if you have 3 VMware services, set it to 5. Note that in most cases this value should not be less than 2 and should not be 2 times greater than the number of VMware services that you monitor. Also keep in mind that this value also depends on your VMware environment size and VMwareFrequency and VMwarePerfFrequency configuration parameters (see below).

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Does this mean that If I want to supervise 3 ESXi,i should rely on 3 services ?

Thank you!

[zabbix_user84]

So, 1 service = 1 web service SOAP = 1 Esx

[cyber]

Same page..
DETAILS
.... Those processes obtain necessary information from VMware web services over the SOAP protocol, pre-process it and store into Zabbix server shared memory. .....
As I understand it, it is the number of endpoints you are querying....

[harmonica]

Hi all,

I'm implementing VMware monitoring with Zabbix and I'm having trouble understanding the concept of VMware services.
In our environment we have 1 vCenter Server and 50 ESXi hosts.
With these values, what is the recommended number for the StartVMwareCollectors configuration?

Thanks,
Regards