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VMware Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM

Complete VMware vSphere & vSAN monitoring, natively in Microsoft SCOM

Monitor vCenter, ESXi hosts, clusters, virtual machines, datastores, hardware, networks and vSAN from the SCOM console your team already runs, with security monitoring, vSAN Skyline Health, capacity analysis and dashboards built in.

 

347
Monitors & Rules
7, 8 & 9
VMware vSphere
112
vSAN Monitors & Rules
38
vSphere 9 Security Checks
2016–2025
Microsoft SCOM
Native
No External Connector

 

 

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Latest version: VMware Management Pack V.26.10.4540.0 | Released October 2026 | Multiple releases per year - Release notes
Supports VMware vSphere 7, 8 and 9 · Microsoft SCOM 2016, 1801, 1807, 2019, 2022 and 2025

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Why choose Opslogix for VMware monitoring?

The Opslogix VMware Management Pack brings your entire VMware environment into Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), alongside everything else your team already monitors. One console, one skill set, nothing new to deploy.

 

Native SCOM

Runs as native SCOM Management Packs.

No separate monitoring server, proxy platform, database or connector.

Deep VMware coverage

347 monitors and rules covering vCenter, ESXi, VMs, datastores, hardware, networking, capacity, vSAN and security.

VMware security monitoring

Version-specific VMware Security Packs identify VMware security-hardening deviations and surface them directly as SCOM health states and alerts.

Deep vSAN monitoring

Monitor Skyline Health, disks, disk groups, capacity, IOPS, throughput, latency, congestion, resync traffic and hardware compatibility.

High availability

Use native SCOM Resource Pools for monitoring high availability.

Read-only VMware access

Connect through VMware APIs using read-only permissions.

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What we monitor

Full-stack VMware monitoring in SCOM, from vCenter down to the disks inside each guest. Every object below is discovered automatically and kept up to date, no manual inventory to maintain.

vCenter

  • vCenter servers and vCenter Server Appliance discovered automatically
  • vCenter Server Appliance services
  • New vCenter alarms raised as SCOM alerts
  • Top of the SCOM health model

Datacenters

  • Datacenters discovered automatically
  • Dependency monitors roll up host, cluster, datastore and VM availability to the datacenter
  • See a problem’s impact at datacenter level

Guest Disks

  • Guest disk capacity
  • Free space in MB and %
  • Alerts when a threshold is crossed
  • Guest OS state, no SCOM agent needed inside the VM (uses VMware Tools)

ESXi hosts

  • Overall, connection and configuration status, power state, service run state
  • Maintenance, quarantine and standby mode
  • CPU, memory, ballooning and swap metrics
  • Storage status, disk and network throughput

Clusters & Resource pools

  • Clusters and resource pools discovered automatically
  • Cluster overall status
  • CPU, memory and datastore overcommitment per cluster

Virtual Machines & Snapshots

  • Overall status and power state
  • VMware tools status and version
  • CPU and memory metrics, ballooning and swap rates
  • Disk and network throughput
  • Snapshots discovered automatically
  • Active snapshot count
  • Snapshot age

Capacity & Overcommitment

  • CPU overcommitment per cluster
  • Memory overcommitment per cluster
  • Datastore overcommitment
  • All, powered-on and powered-off VMs

Networks & Distributed virtual switches

  • Networks and distributed virtual switches discovered automatically
  • Distributed switch security: forged transmits, MAC address changes, promiscuous mode
  • Related to hosts and VMs in the SCOM health model

Datastores

  • Overall datastore status
  • Capacity, free and used space (GB and %) with thresholds
  • Highest latency
  • Storage I/O control: latency, IOPS and queue depth

vSAN

  • vSAN clusters, disk groups and disks
  • 55+ Skyline health checks
  • Capacity, IOPS, throughput, latency and congestion
  • Resync and recovery traffic

Host hardware

  • 22 hardware monitors
  • CPU, memory, fans and temperature
  • Power supplies, voltage and battery
  • Storage, network and PCI devices
  • Health rolls up to the ESXi host

VMware security

  • 38 security-hardening checks for vSphere 9
  • ESXi host hardening
  • Virtual machine hardening
  • Distributed switch security policies

Native integration, VMware alarms & dashboards

How the Opslogix VMware Management Pack connects SCOM to VMware, and what you get out of the box.

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How the native SCOM integration works

  • Where it runs: on a SCOM Management Server or Gateway Server, no SCOM agent on vCenter required
  • How it connects: through the VMware vCenter (or ESXi) API over HTTPS
  • Permissions: a read-only account in vCenter or ESXi
  • High availability: SCOM Resource Pools
  • Extra servers: no separate monitoring platform; for larger environments, a dedicated Management Server is recommended (sizing guide)

Dashboards & Reporting

  • VMware overview dashboards and ESXi server dashboard
  • vSAN dashboards
  • Capacity Analysis dashboards
  • Configuration dashboard
  • Availability and performance reports (Reports Management Pack)

Bring native VMware alarms into SCOM

  • New vCenter alarms are surfaced as SCOM alerts
  • Administrators control which VMware alarms are forwarded
  • Handle VMware-generated alarms and SCOM monitoring alerts from the same SCOM console

 

Key benefits

VMware security monitoring

See security-hardening drift the moment it appears. The VMware Security Packs check ESXi hosts, virtual machines and distributed switches against VMware security-hardening recommendations, every deviation becomes a SCOM health state and alert, in the same console as availability and performance.

38
security checks for vSphere 9
5
version-specific packs: vSphere 6.5, 6.7, 7, 8 and 9
3
object types checked: ESXi hosts, VMs, distributed switches

ESXi Hosts

  • Lockdown mode
  • SSH and ESXi Shell disabled
  • Shell and DCUI timeouts
  • Managed Object Browser (MOB) disabled
  • Password complexity and history
  • Account lockout
  • NTP / time configuration
  • Persistent logging and remote log forwarding
  • SNMP configuration
  • Trusted VIBs only

Virtual Machines

  • Console copy/paste disabled
  • Disk shrinking disabled
  • Console connection limits
  • VMRC lock
  • Restricted host information exposure
  • VM log retention and rotation

Distributed switches

  • Reject forged transmits
  • Reject MAC address changes
  • Reject promiscuous mode

Deep vSAN Monitoring

Run vSAN with the same confidence as the rest of your estate. vSAN health, capacity and performance live directly in the SCOM health model, through dedicated vSAN and vSAN Dashboards Management Packs.

112
vSAN monitors & rules
72
vSAN monitors
40
vSAN rules
55+
Skyline Health checks

vSAN Skyline Health in SCOM

  • Network connectivity and partitions
  • MTU and network latency
  • Object and component health
  • HCL: controller certification, drivers and firmware
  • Capacity, disk balance and resync throttling
  • Configuration consistency and time synchronization
  • Host-failure capacity analysis (“what if the most consumed host fails”)

Disks & Capacity

  • Disk and disk-group operational state, with health rollup from disks to disk groups
  • Cluster capacity: total, used and free (absolute and %)
  • Disk-group capacity and reserved capacity
  • Read-cache hit rate
  • Write-buffer free %

vSAN Performance

  • VM and backend perspective
  • IOPS, throughput and latency
  • Congestion and outstanding I/O
  • Cache and capacity disk latency (device and guest)
  • Resync and recovery traffic: IOPS, throughput and latency

Native SCOM health & dependency model

One health model from vCenter down to each VM. Dependency monitors roll availability and health upward, so operators see a problem’s impact at every infrastructure level, in native SCOM topology, not a bolted-on view.

Health & dependency hierarchy
vCenter
Datacenter
Cluster
ESXi Host
Virtual Machine
Related objects

VMware monitoring without another monitoring platform

The VMware Management Pack runs inside your existing Microsoft SCOM environment. There is nothing else to deploy, patch or license alongside it.

  • No external monitoring appliance
  • No separate monitoring database
  • No additional connector
  • No VMware agents, VMware is monitored through the vCenter or ESXi API
  • Native SCOM deployment as Management Packs
  • SCOM Resource Pool high availability
  • Read-only VMware permissions
  • Central SCOM alerting, health and reporting
SCOM Management and Gateway Servers in a Resource Pool connecting over HTTPS to vCenter and ESXi
SCOM Management Servers or Gateway Servers in a Resource Pool connect over HTTPS to the VMware SDK service on vCenter or ESXi.

347 Built-in VMware monitors & rules

207 monitors and 140 rules provide out-of-the-box monitoring across the VMware stack, delivered as native SCOM Management Packs.

  • 207 monitors and 140 rules across the core packs and the vSphere 9 Security Pack
  • 112 vSAN monitors and rules (72 monitors, 40 rules), including 55+ Skyline Health checks
  • 38 security-hardening checks for vSphere 9

See exactly what we monitor. No vague feature claims: explore the monitors, rules, discoveries, performance metrics and default monitoring behavior included with the Opslogix VMware Management Pack.

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VMware capacity & Overcommitment analysis

Spot overcommitted clusters before they become performance problems. The Capacity Analysis Management Pack monitors and trends CPU, memory and datastore overcommitment per cluster, with dedicated dashboards for the results.

CPU overcommitment per cluster

Calculated three ways:

  • All VMs
  • Powered-on VMs only
  • Powered-off VMs only

Memory overcommitment per cluster

Calculated three ways:

  • All VMs
  • Powered-on VMs only
  • Powered-off VMs only

Datastore overcommitment

Calculated three ways:

  • All VMs
  • Powered-on VMs only
  • Powered-off VMs only

Capacity analysis dashboards

Dedicated capacity analysis dashboards show CPU, memory and datastore overcommitment results per cluster.

Technical overview

See exactly what we monitor. Detailed answers on discovery, ESXi, hardware, VM, guest, datastore, vSAN, alarm, capacity and security monitoring.

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What does the Opslogix VMware Management Pack monitor?

347 monitors and rules (207 monitors and 140 rules) across your whole vSphere environment, delivered as native SCOM Management Packs:

  • vCenter and the vCenter Server Appliance
  • Datacenters, clusters and resource pools
  • ESXi hosts, host services and host hardware
  • Virtual machines, snapshots and guest disks
  • Datastores, networks and Distributed Virtual Switches
  • vSAN clusters, disk groups and disks
  • Capacity and overcommitment
  • VMware security hardening (VMware Security Packs)
Which VMware objects are discovered automatically?

These are all discovered automatically and kept up to date in SCOM:

  • vCenter servers, datacenters, clusters and resource pools
  • ESXi hosts, host services and hardware components
  • Virtual machines, VM snapshots and guest disk volumes
  • Datastores, networks and Distributed Virtual Switches
  • vSAN disk groups and disks
  • vCenter Server Appliance services
What is monitored on ESXi hosts?
  • Health: overall status, connection status, configuration status, power state, service run state
  • Operational modes: maintenance, quarantine and standby mode
  • Storage: datastore mount status, HBA multipath status, ramdisk free space, highest datastore latency
  • CPU: usage (%, MHz, min/max), ready time, wait time, swap wait, idle time, reserved capacity
  • Memory: usage %, active, consumed, granted, overhead, shared, ballooning, swap in/out and swap rates, heap, zeroed, reserved and unreserved capacity
  • Disk and network throughput
Do you monitor ESXi host hardware?

Yes. The Hardware Management Pack has 22 monitors that check each hardware component and roll its health up to the host:

  • CPU and processor
  • Memory
  • Fans and temperature
  • Power supplies and voltage
  • Battery
  • Storage
  • Network and PCI devices
What is monitored on virtual machines?
  • Health: overall status, power state, VMware Tools status and VMware Tools version
  • Snapshots: active snapshot count and snapshot age
  • CPU: usage (%, MHz, min/max), ready time, wait time, idle time, guaranteed CPU
  • Memory: usage %, active, consumed, granted, overhead, ballooning, swapped, swap in/out and swap rates
  • Disk and network throughput
Can I monitor disks inside the guest operating system?

Yes. The Guest Monitoring Management Pack uses VMware Tools, so no SCOM agent is needed inside the VM:

  • Guest disk capacity
  • Free space in MB and % (with alerts when a threshold is crossed)
  • Guest OS state
How are datastores monitored?
  • Overall datastore status
  • Capacity, free and used space (GB and %), with threshold monitoring
  • Highest latency
  • Storage I/O Control: normalized latency, aggregated IOPS, maximum queue depth and active time
Do you monitor vSAN?

Yes, with a dedicated vSAN Management Pack and vSAN Dashboards Management Pack. vSAN monitoring alone includes 72 monitors and 40 rules:

  • 55+ vSAN Skyline Health checks surfaced in SCOM, covering:
    • Network: connectivity, partitions, MTU, latency
    • Data: object and component health
    • Hardware compatibility (HCL): controller certification, drivers, firmware
    • Disks: capacity, disk balance and resync throttling
    • Cluster: configuration consistency, time sync, and “what if the most consumed host fails”
  • Disk and disk group operational state, with health rollup from disks to disk groups
  • Cluster capacity: total, used and free (absolute and %)
  • Disk group capacity, reserved capacity, read cache hit rate and write buffer free %
  • Performance from both the VM and the backend perspective: IOPS, throughput, latency, congestion and outstanding I/O
  • Cache and capacity disk latency (device and guest)
  • Resync and recovery traffic: IOPS, throughput and latency
Are vCenter alarms forwarded to SCOM?

Yes. New vCenter alarms are picked up and raised as SCOM alerts, so you see VMware’s own alarms next to your other SCOM alerts. You can customize which alarms are forwarded.

Do you offer capacity analysis?

Yes. The Capacity Analysis Management Pack monitors and trends CPU, memory and datastore overcommitment per cluster. Each is calculated three ways: all VMs, powered-on VMs only, and powered-off VMs only. Dedicated Capacity Analysis dashboards show the results.

What do the VMware Security Packs monitor?

The VMware Security Packs perform security-hardening and configuration checks on ESXi hosts, VMs and distributed switches, based on VMware security-hardening recommendations. Every deviation becomes a SCOM health state and alert. That’s 38 checks for vSphere 9, with version-specific packs for vSphere 6.5, 6.7, 7.0, 8.0 and 9.0.

  • ESXi hosts: lockdown mode, SSH and ESXi Shell disabled, shell and DCUI timeouts, MOB disabled, password complexity and history, account lockout, NTP/time, persistent logging and log forwarding, SNMP, trusted VIBs only
  • Virtual machines: console copy/paste disabled, disk shrinking disabled, console connection limits, VMRC lock, restricted host info, log retention and rotation
  • Distributed switches: reject forged transmits, MAC address changes and promiscuous mode
How does health roll up in SCOM?

Objects are modeled as a native SCOM health model: vCenter → Datacenter → Cluster → ESXi host → Virtual Machine, with datastores and networks related to them. Dependency monitors roll up host, cluster, datastore and VM availability to the datacenter, so you can see a problem’s impact at every level.

Which dashboards and reports are included?
  • ESXi server dashboard
  • VMware overview dashboards
  • Configuration dashboard
  • Capacity Analysis dashboards
  • vSAN dashboards
  • Availability and performance reports (Reports Management Pack)
Where can I find the complete list of monitors and rules?

The core packs plus the vSphere 9 security pack contain 207 monitors and 140 rules (347 in total). Every monitor and rule is documented in our knowledge base .

What to look for in a VMware Management Pack for SCOM

Fourteen criteria worth checking in any VMware monitoring solution for Microsoft SCOM, and how the Opslogix VMware Management Pack answers each one.

Evaluation criterion How Opslogix addresses it
Native SCOM integration Delivered as native SCOM Management Packs; runs on SCOM Management Servers or Gateways
Current vSphere support vSphere 7, 8 and 9; SCOM 2016 through 2025
vSAN depth 112 vSAN monitors and rules, 55+ Skyline Health checks, vSAN dashboards
Security monitoring VMware Security Packs: 38 security-hardening checks for vSphere 9, version-specific packs back to vSphere 6.5
Monitor/rule transparency 347 monitors and rules, each documented in the knowledge base
Hardware monitoring 22 ESXi hardware monitors with rollup to the host
Capacity analysis CPU, memory and datastore overcommitment per cluster, with dashboards
SCOM health rollup vCenter → Datacenter → Cluster → ESXi host → VM, with dependency monitors
VMware alarm integration New vCenter alarms raised as SCOM alerts; you choose which are forwarded
HA architecture SCOM Resource Pools
Read-only permissions Read-only vCenter or ESXi account
No separate monitoring platform No appliance, connector or separate monitoring database
Release frequency Multiple releases per year; see the release notes
Licensing / TCO Per physical monitored CPU socket; no additional monitoring platform to license

Why teams choose Opslogix

 

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Cost-effective licensing

Cost-effective socket-based VMware monitoring without licensing an additional monitoring platform. Licensed per physical monitored VMware CPU socket, with the first year of support and assurance (SA) added at purchase.

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SCOM specialists

Over ten years of software development creating add-ons for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. Opslogix combines software with professional services for organizations working with the System Center suite.

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Current and actively maintained

Supports vSphere 9 and SCOM 2025. Multiple product releases per year, with continuous improvement and personal support.

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Compatibility & System requirements

Current VMware vSphere and Microsoft SCOM support. See the full support matrix and sizing guidance.

Component Supported version or requirement
VMware vSphere 7.x, 8.x and 9.x (latest supported: 9.1)
VMware ESXi 7.x, 8.x and 9.x
VMware vCenter Server 7.x, 8.x and 9.x
VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) vSphere 7.0 and later
Microsoft SCOM 2016, 1801, 1807, 2019, 2022 and 2025
Permissions Read-only access to vCenter or ESXi
System requirement SCOM Management Server or Gateway Server with .NET Framework 4.7 or later

 

Frequently Asked Questions

Compatibility, licensing, sizing and product updates for the VMware Management Pack for SCOM.

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What versions of SCOM does the Management Pack support?

The Opslogix VMware Management Pack supports Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2016, 1801, 1807, 2019, 2022 and 2025.

What versions of VMware vCenter and ESXi are supported?

VMware vCenter and ESXi 7.0 and later are supported, including vSphere 8 and vSphere 9 (latest supported version: 9.1). The VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) is supported for vSphere 7.0 and later. See the support matrix.

What makes Opslogix different from other VMware SCOM Management Packs?
  • Runs as native SCOM Management Packs, with no separate monitoring platform, appliance, database or connector
  • 347 built-in monitors and rules (207 monitors, 140 rules)
  • Version-specific VMware Security Packs with 38 security-hardening checks for vSphere 9
  • 112 vSAN monitors and rules, including 55+ Skyline Health checks
  • Read-only VMware access and SCOM Resource Pool high availability
  • Every monitor and rule documented in the knowledge base
Does the Management Pack provide capacity analysis?

Yes. The Capacity Analysis Management Pack monitors and trends CPU, memory and datastore overcommitment per cluster. Each is calculated three ways: all VMs, powered-on VMs only and powered-off VMs only. Dedicated Capacity Analysis dashboards show the results.

How many ESXi hosts or VMs can it monitor?

Capacity scales with your SCOM Management Servers. Opslogix sizing guidance for a default configuration on a dedicated Management Server or Gateway:

  • Up to 50 ESXi hosts and 1,000 VMs: 16 GB RAM, 4 CPU cores
  • Up to 150 ESXi hosts and 3,000 VMs: 32 GB RAM, 4 CPU cores
  • More than 150 ESXi hosts: one dedicated Management Server per 150 ESXi hosts (32 GB RAM, 4 CPU cores each)

Every environment is different; see the sizing guide for details.

How frequently is the Management Pack updated?

The VMware Management Pack is under continuous development, with multiple releases per year adding features and support for the latest VMware vCenter and ESXi versions. See the release notes for the full release history.

How is the Opslogix VMware Management Pack licensed?

The Opslogix VMware Management Pack is licensed per physical monitored VMware CPU socket. The first year of support and assurance (SA) is mandatory and is added to each socket upon purchase. Each subsequent year, you are only charged for software and assurance. See VMware Management Pack licensing.

What permissions are required in vCenter or ESXi?

Only an account with read-only permissions in your vCenter or ESXi environment.

What are the system requirements?

A System Center Operations Manager Management Server or Gateway Server with .NET Framework 4.7 or later.

How to deploy

Everything you need to deploy the VMware Management Pack in your SCOM environment:

Installation Guide  ·  Configuration Guide  ·  User Guide  ·  Release Notes

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