HPE VM Essentials

Overview

HPE VM Essentials is a virtualization management solution from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) that simplifies the provisioning, monitoring, and automation of virtual machines (VMs) across different hypervisor environments.

It provides a unified interface to manage:

KVM-based hypervisors supported by HPE VM Essentials
VMware vSphere environments

This centralized management approach streamlines operations across diverse virtual infrastructure components.

Use Cases

Discovery

Discovers all HPE VM Essentials components
Publishes relationships between resources to enable a topological view and simplify maintenance
Refer to the Hierarchy of HPE VM Essentials Resource for detailed structure

Monitoring

Provides metrics related to availability status, capacity, performance and usage.
Generates alerts when metric thresholds are breached to notify administrators of potential issues.

Supported Target Versions

This integration has been validated on HPE VM Essentials single-instance and high availability architecture setups with build versions 8.0.4, 8.0.6, 8.0.7, 8.0.8, and 8.0.9.

Roles and Permissions

As HPE VME appliance can support multi-tenanted approach, based on the customer environment system level, tenant level user with custom role and read only permissions can be created for monitoring the HPE VME environment.

Hierarchy of HPE VM Essentials resource

High Availability Architecture
The application can discover the following HPE VM Essentials related resources for High availability architecture:

HPE VM Essentials Manager
- HPE VM Essentials HA Node
- HPE VM Essentials Cloud
  - HPE VM Essentials Cluster
    - HPE VM Essentials Host
      - HPE VM Essentials Virtual Machine
    - HPE VM Essentials Datastore
  - HPE VM Essentials Storage Volume

Standalone Architecture
The application can discover the following HPE VM Essentials related resources for standalone architecture:

HPE VM Essentials Manager
- HPE VM Essentials Cloud
  - HPE VM Essentials Cluster
    - HPE VM Essentials Host
      - HPE VM Essentials Virtual Machine
    - HPE VM Essentials Datastore
  - HPE VM Essentials Storage Volume

Integration Version History

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Application Version	Bug fixes / Enhancements
4.0.0	Added persona support for High Availability Architecture.
3.0.0	Updated alert thresholds for `hpe_vme_cluster_Status` metric.
2.0.2	Replaced numeric IDs with Manager UUID, Cluster UUID, and Host UUID in the custom attributes. Added possible status outcome values to the following metrics. `hpe_vme_cluster_Status` `hpe_vme_host_Status` `hpe_vme_virtualmachine_Status`
2.0.1	Native Tags Support for HPE VM Essentials Virtual Machines and Hosts, GiB Conversion to Handle Decimal Values, and API Filtering to differentiate Hosts and Virtual Machines.
2.0.0	Support added for two new metrics `hpe_vme_host_MaxMemory` for Host and `hpe_vme_virtualmachine_MaxMemory` for Virtual Machine. Updated the description of the `hpe_vme_manager_SystemLoad` metric.
1.0.0	Initial support of discovery and monitoring.