VMware: How to create Alarm to warn on vCenter

Overview

The article instructs to configure alarm creation to warn administrators when there is a problem with 1 machine in the system

The article guides to create a warning for the event that 1 machine exceeds the allowed CPU

How to configure

• Login to vCenter by Administrator account
• Go to Hosts and Clusters

• Right click to the virtual machine that you want to create alarm -> Choose Alarm -> Choose New Alarm Definition

• Enter name for Alarm
• In Target type: Choose Virtual Machine
• Click Next

• Here I set the condition that CPU usage exceeds 50% within 30 seconds, then a warning will be displayed
• Click Next

• In Reset Rule: Choose Normal
• Click Next

• Choose Enable this alarm
• Click Create

• Here I try to use the machine to exceed 50% CPU to check the result