I ran into a situation that a customer did not want to pay for an expensive management pack to monitor their ESX server Hardware . They all ran on HP Proliant hardware. Here is a small tutorial on how to integrate & configuring the Insight Manager Agents for VMware ESX Servers and let them report into System center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Go to the HP website and search for HP Insight Manager Agents for VMware ESX Server 8.2.0 Download the Agents Open WinSCP and upload the .tar file you just...(read more)

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