Need of dynamic updates on the State of the virtual machine's vMA right for me?

Hello

First of all, I want to say vSphere is incredible.

Second, my goal is the following: to get updates in real time on the CPU usage, disk i/o, and memory on a per-VM basis, not only for an overall ESX Server.  I will send this information to another machine (possibly a virtual computer on the same ESX Server, but not necessarily).

Is the right tool for me vMA?

vMA is just a management appliance that manages the vSphere SDK for Perl (which are Perl bindings to the vSphere API)

I think what you're looking for is what SDK/API you can get this information, it would be the vSphere SDK and the language of choice is to you on if you want to create PowerCLI, vbscript, Perl, .NET, c#, etc. application to monitor and query for this information.

Take a look at this document to help you get started on the SDK/API: Getting Started with vSphere SDK - Update for SDK 4.1 release

Also concerning performance monitoring with the vSphere API, take a look at: and on the right there is more literature vSphere API performance analysis

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