VMware Admin Daily Activities

     VMware Admin Daily Activities

1.    Check the health of all Hosts and VM objects in vCenter.

2.    Are there any active alarms in vCenter?

3.    Have you set up any alarms in the first place?

4.    Do the alarms automatically trigger notification or any type of incident tracking mechanism?

5.    Are all vCenter plug-ins functioning properly?

6.    Do you have any Host Hardware issues? Alarms, bad memory, power supply or capacity issues?

7.    Are all Hosts in compliance with Host Profiles?

8.    Are there any resource bottlenecks? Memory, CPU, Disk, Network? Do you have any, or need any, additional tools 
to have a better handle on this?

9.    Are you running at your optimum resource levels? In other words, is the load properly distributed?

10.  Are you running out of resources anywhere? LUNs with low disk space, etc. Do you need to start looking at budgeting for additional capacity?

11.  Check for Firmware updates on Host hardware

12.  Check for ESX Patches

13.  Check for VM Patches

14.  Check VMware Tools version

15.  Run scripts to identify the existence of VMs with snapshots and follow up to see if they are still needed.

16.      Have you schmoozed with your Storage Admins lately? A good idea since you cannot get very far without them.