The vSphere module uses the https://github.com/vmware/govmomi[Govmomi] library to collect metrics from any Vmware SDK URL (ESXi/VCenter). This library is built for and tested against ESXi and vCenter 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5.

By default it enables the metricsets `datastore`, `host` and `virtualmachine`.

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=== Dashboard

The vsphere module comes with a predefined dashboard. For example:

image::./images/metricbeat_vsphere_dashboard.png[]
image::./images/metricbeat_vsphere_vm_dashboard.png[]
