Hardware monitoring standard exposed by ESXi. Veeam ONE queries host sensor status this way using CIM XML on port 5989, so its account needs the CIM Interaction privilege.
Also called Common Information Model.
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Terms in this definition
- Standard deployment type
A Foundry deployment type billed per token that keeps processing of prompts and responses inside the Azure geography of the resource, meeting data residency needs at lower volumes.
- ESX
VMware's bare-metal hypervisor, installed on each host in a VCF fleet. Up to version 9.0 it was known as ESXi.
- Veeam ONE
A standalone Veeam product that monitors and reports on Veeam Backup & Replication and virtual environments in real time and documents them for the business. It can also measure how quickly VMs change, which helps with sizing.
- XML
A text-based format for data, used for instance in message bodies.
Related terms
- PowerPath
Multipathing software from a third party, consisting of a kernel module and a CIM module. If an ESX upgrade ISO has no matching components, a precheck raises a POWERPATH warning.
- WMIC
Gave command-line access to WMI and is now deprecated. PowerShell CIM cmdlets take its place, and Windows Server 2025 offers it only as a Feature on Demand.