# VMware vCenter

### Supported Platforms

| Platform | Metrics | Logs | Traces |
| -------- | ------- | ---- | ------ |
| Linux    | ✓       | ✓    |        |
| Windows  | ✓       | ✓    |        |
| macOS    | ✓       | ✓    |        |

### Prerequisites

This receiver has been built to support ESXi and vCenter versions:

* 7.5
* 7.0
* 6.7

A “Read Only” user assigned to a vSphere with permissions to the vCenter server, cluster and all subsequent resources being monitored must be specified in order for the receiver to retrieve information about them.

### Configuration Table

<table><thead><tr><th width="159.37890625">Parameter</th><th width="185.71484375">Type</th><th width="128.453125">Default</th><th width="308.04296875">Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>telemetry_types</td><td><code>telemetrySelector</code></td><td><code>["Logs", "Metrics"]</code></td><td>Choose Telemetry Type.</td></tr><tr><td>endpoint*</td><td><code>string</code></td><td></td><td>Endpoint to the vCenter Server or ESXi host that has the sdk path enabled. Required. The expected format is <code>&#x3C;protocol>://&#x3C;hostname></code> \n \ni.e: <code>https://vcsa.hostname.localnet</code></td></tr><tr><td>username*</td><td><code>string</code></td><td></td><td>Username used to authenticate.</td></tr><tr><td>password*</td><td><code>string</code></td><td></td><td>Password used to authenticate.</td></tr><tr><td>tls</td><td><code>string</code></td><td></td><td>Not Required. Will use defaults for <a href="https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/blob/main/config/configtls/README.md">configtls.TLSClientSetting</a>. By default insecure settings are rejected and certificate verification is on.</td></tr><tr><td>collection_interval</td><td><code>int</code></td><td>60</td><td>Sets how often (seconds) to scrape for metrics.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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