6.5.1
Table Of Contents
- vSphere Monitoring and Performance
- Contents
- About vSphere Monitoring and Performance
- Monitoring Inventory Objects with Performance Charts
- Performance Chart Types
- Data Counters
- Metric Groups in vSphere
- Data Collection Intervals
- Data Collection Levels
- View Performance Charts
- Performance Charts Options Available Under the View Menu
- Overview Performance Charts
- Clusters
- Data centers
- Datastores and Datastore Clusters
- Disk Space (Data Counters)
- Disk Space (File Types)
- Disk Space (Datastores)
- Disk Space (Virtual Machines)
- Storage I/O Control Normalized Latency
- Storage I/O Control Aggregate IOPs
- Storage I/O Control Activity
- Average Device Latency per Host
- Maximum Queue Depth per Host
- Read IOPs per Host
- Write IOPs Per Host
- Average Read Latency per Virtual Machine Disk
- Average Write Latency per Virtual Machine Disk
- Read IOPs per Virtual Machine Disk
- Write IOPs Per Virtual Machine Disk
- Virtual Machine Observed Latency per Datastore
- Hosts
- Resource Pools
- vApps
- Virtual Machines
- CPU (%)
- CPU Usage (MHz)
- Disk (Average)
- Disk (Rate)
- Disk (Number)
- Virtual Disk Requests (Number)
- Virtual Disk Rate (KBps)
- Memory (Usage)
- Memory (Balloon)
- Memory (Swap Rate)
- Memory (Data Counters)
- Network (Usage)
- Network (Rate)
- Network (Packets)
- Disk Space (Data Counters)
- Disk Space (Datastores)
- Disk Space (File Types)
- Fault Tolerance Performance Counters
- Working with Advanced and Custom Charts
- Troubleshoot and Enhance Performance
- Monitoring Guest Operating System Performance
- Monitoring Host Health Status
- Monitoring Events, Alarms, and Automated Actions
- View Events
- View System Logs
- Export Events Data
- Streaming Events to a Remote Syslog Server
- Retention of Events in the vCenter Server Database
- View Triggered Alarms and Alarm Definitions
- Live Refresh of Recent Tasks and Alarms
- Set an Alarm
- Acknowledge Triggered Alarms
- Reset Triggered Event Alarms
- Preconfigured vSphere Alarms
- Monitoring Solutions with the vCenter Solutions Manager
- Monitoring the Health of Services and Nodes
- Performance Monitoring Utilities: resxtop and esxtop
- Using the vimtop Plug-In to Monitor the Resource Use of Services
- Monitoring Networked Devices with SNMP and vSphere
- Using SNMP Traps with vCenter Server
- Configure SNMP for ESXi
- SNMP Diagnostics
- Monitor Guest Operating Systems with SNMP
- VMware MIB Files
- SNMPv2 Diagnostic Counters
- System Log Files
- View System Log Entries
- View System Logs on an ESXi Host
- System Logs
- Export System Log Files
- ESXi Log Files
- Upload Logs Package to a VMware Service Request
- Configure Syslog on ESXi Hosts
- Configuring Logging Levels for the Guest Operating System
- Collecting Log Files
- Viewing Log Files with the Log Browser
- Enable the Log Browser Plug-In on the vCenter Server Appliance
- Enable the Log Browser Plug-In on a vCenter Server Instance That Runs on Windows
- Retrieve Logs
- Search Log Files
- Filter Log Files
- Create Advanced Log Filters
- Adjust Log Times
- Export Logs from the Log Browser
- Compare Log Files
- Manage Logs Using the Log Browser
- Browse Log Files from Different Objects
- Index
Table 4‑6. Default vSphere Alarms (Continued)
Alarm Name Description
vSphere HA VM Component Protection could not power
o a virtual machine
Monitors whether vSphere High Availability VM
Component Protection cannot power o a virtual machine
with an inaccessible datastore.
License error * Monitors license errors.
Health status changed * Monitors changes to service and extension health status.
Virtual machine component protection restart error Monitors whether the vSphere HA VM Component
Protection fails to restart a virtual machine.
Storage DRS recommendation Monitors Storage DRS recommendations.
Storage DRS is not supported on a host Monitors and alerts when Storage DRS is not supported on
a host.
Datastore cluster is out of space Monitors whether a datastore cluster runs out of disk
space.
Datastore is in multiple datacenters Monitors whether a datastore in a datastore cluster is
visible in more than one data center.
vSphere Distributed Switch VLAN trunked status Monitors changes in vSphere Distributed Switch VLAN
trunked status.
vSphere Distributed Switch MTU matched status Monitors changes in vSphere Distributed Switch MTU
matched status.
vSphere Distributed Switch MTU supported status Monitors changes in vSphere Distributed Switch MTU
supported status.
vSphere Distributed Switch teaming matched status Monitors changes in vSphere Distributed Switch teaming
matched status.
Virtual Machine network adapter reservation status Monitors changes in the reservation status of a virtual
machine network adapter.
Virtual machine Consolidation Needed status Monitors changes in the virtual machine Consolidation
Needed status.
Host virtual ash resource status Monitors the Flash Read Cache resource status on the host.
Host virtual ash resource usage Monitors the Flash Read Cache resource usage on the host.
Registration/unregistration of a VASA vendor provider on
a vSAN host fails
Default alarm that monitors whether the registration or
unregistration of a VASA vendor provider on a vSAN host
fails.
Registration/unregistration of third-party IO lter storage
providers fails on a host
Default alarm that monitors whether vCenter Server fails to
register or unregister third-party IO lter storage providers
on a host.
Service Control Agent Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the VMware Service Control
Agent.
Identity Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the Identity Management
Service.
vSphere Web Client Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the vSphere Web Client.
ESX Agent Manager Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the ESX Agent Manager.
Message Bus Cong Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the Message Bus
Conguration Service.
Cis License Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the License Service.
Appliance Management Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the Appliance Management
Service.
Inventory Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the Inventory Service.
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