Andrew ArmstrongJun 30, 2025
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ck đŸ‘šâ€đŸ’»Jan 17, 2023

To be able to monitor the hardware of a #VMware ESXi server, the integrated #CIM Server can be used. The CIM Server reads the current operational or health status of each hardware element and represents this in the output.

But since #ESXi version 6.5 the CIM Server is stopped and disabled by default. This article shows how to correctly enable and start the CIM Server (aka #WBEM service) in ESXi 8. 👇

https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/blog/1280/how-to-enable-cim-server-wbem-service-esxi-8

How to enable CIM Server (WBEM service) in ESXi 8

The CIM Server is by default disabled and needs to be enabled manually as wbem service in ESXi 8.

Claudio Kuenzler