Is VMware credential with read access enough for monitoring Vcenter?

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  Yes, ESXi residing in a vCenter will be discovered and monitored or else a standalone ESXi could also be discovered and monitored., refer VMware monitoring for more details.

• Can the whole VMware infrastructure be discovered?

  Yes, when Cloudmon is provided with vCenter IP and the admin credentials, all the resource entities like ESXi, VMs, Cluster, Resource Pool and Datastore will be discovered and can be monitored.

• Setting Up Read-Only MOB Access for vCenter

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• Agent Vs Agentless Monitoring in cloudmon

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• How to add "tags" to VMware vCenter and ESXi Hosts in Cloudmon

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