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3 Enter Perfmon and press Enter.
4 In the Performance dialog box, click the Add button or press Ctrl+I.
5 In the Add Counters dialog box, select Use local computer counters.
6 Select a virtual machine (virtual machine performance object names begin with VM) performance object.
7 Select the counters that you would like to display for that object.
8 If the performance object has multiple instances, select the instances you would like to display.
9 Click Add.
The Performance dialog box displays data for the selected performance object.
10 Click Close to close the Add Counter dialog box and return to the Performance dialog box.
vCenter Server Performance Charts
The performance charts graphically display CPU, memory, disk, network, and storage metrics for devices and
entities managed by vCenter Server. Chart types include line charts, pie charts, bar charts, and stacked charts.
You view the performance charts for an object that is selected in the inventory on the vSphere Client
Performance tab. You can view overview charts and advanced charts for an object. Both the overview charts
and the advanced charts use the following chart types to display statistics:
Line charts
Display metrics for a single inventory object. The data for each performance
counter is plotted on a separate line in the chart. For example, a network chart
for a host can contain two lines: one showing the number of packets received,
and one showing the number of packets transmitted.
Bar charts
Display storage metrics for datastores in a selected datacenter. Each datastore
is represented as a bar in the chart, and each bar displays metrics based on file
type (virtual disks, snapshots, swap files, and other files).
Pie charts
Display storage metrics for a single datastore or virtual machine. Storage
information is based on file type or virtual machine. For example, a pie chart
for a datastore displays the amount of storage space occupied by the five-
largest virtual machines on that datastore. A pie chart for a virtual machine
displays the amount of storage space occupied by virtual machine files.
Stacked charts
Display metrics for children of the selected parent object. For example, a host's
stacked CPU usage chart displays CPU usage metrics for each virtual machine
on the host. The metrics for the host itself are displayed in separate line charts.
Stacked charts are useful in comparing resource allocation and usage across
multiple hosts or virtual machines. Each metric group appears on a separate
chart for a managed entity. For example, hosts have one chart that displays
CPU metrics and one that displays memory metrics.
Overview Performance Charts
The overview performance charts enable you to view CPU, memory, network, disk, and storage metrics for
an object at the same time.
All overview charts for an object appear in the same panel in the Performance tab. This allows you to do side-
by-side comparisions of resource usage for clusters, datacenters, datastores, hosts, resource pools, and virtual
machines. You can perform the following tasks with the overview performance charts.
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View all charts for an object in one panel. The single-panel view enables you to make side-by-side
comparisons of different resource statistics, for example, CPU usage and memory usage.
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