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We can monitor the ESX host and its VM from your desktop without any additional investment. SolarWinds offers free monitor tool. Sadly, they are allowing us to monitor only one host. If need more than that, please pay to them :). Here is the link for downloading the Tool: http://www.solarwinds.com/products/freetools/vm_monitor.aspx Download this tool, install on your desktop (mine is Windows XP SP2). In the configuration setting, please enter your ESX host IP address and select the SNMP Version. It selecte SNMPV2 by default and enter the community string if SNMP related NMS configured. Otherwise, leave it to "public" The following steps only for if SNMP not enabled in the host. Connect the ESX thru SSH or service console. SNMP configuration file is: /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf To start the service: /etc/rc.d/init.d/snmpd start (OR) service snmpd start Use following command to start the SNMP service after every reboot chkconfig snmpd on Now, dont forget to do this.... esxcfg-firewal