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