Monitoring ESXi host temperature

It is common for customers to monitor the fan speed and temperature of hardware equipment. Rising fan speed or temperature can be a good warning indicator of failure or high utilization.

If you have many ESXis, tracking them one by one is tedious. It also makes more sense to track at the cluster level due to HA, DRS, and VSAN. The following screenshot shows an example of four clusters:

Monitoring ESXi host temperature

Tracking ESXi temperature

From this, viewers can easily see whether the cluster utilizations are in the healthy range or not. I have adjusted the threshold accordingly so that they display different thresholds. In your environment, they ...

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