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 7‑9. Storage Adapter Panel Statistics (Continued)
Column Description
GAVG/rd Average guest operating system read latency per read operation, in milliseconds.
QAVG/rd Average queue latency per read operation, in milliseconds.
DAVG/wr Average device write latency per write operation, in milliseconds.
KAVG/wr Average ESXi VMkernel write latency per write operation, in milliseconds.
GAVG/wr Average guest operating system write latency per write operation, in milliseconds.
QAVG/wr Average queue latency per write operation, in milliseconds.
FCMDS/s Number of failed commands issued per second.
FREAD/s Number of failed read commands issued per second.
FWRITE/s Number of failed write commands issued per second.
FMBRD/s Megabytes of failed read operations per second.
FMBWR/s Megabytes of failed write operations per second.
FRESV/s Number of failed SCSI reservations per second.
ABRTS/s Number of commands aborted per second.
RESETS/s Number of commands reset per second.
PAECMD/s The number of PAE (Physical Address Extension) commands per second.
PAECP/s The number of PAE copies per second.
SPLTCMD/s The number of split commands per second.
SPLTCP/s The number of split copies per second.
The following table displays the interactive commands you can use with the storage adapter panel.
Table 7‑10. Storage Adapter Panel Interactive Commands
Command Description
e
Toggles whether storage adapter statistics appear expanded or unexpanded. Allows you to view
storage resource utilization statistics broken down by individual paths belonging to an expanded
storage adapter. You are prompted for the adapter name.
r
Sorts by READS/s column.
w
Sorts by WRITES/s column.
R
Sorts by MBREAD/s read column.
T
Sorts by MBWRTN/s wrien column.
N
Sorts rst by ADAPTR column, then by PATH column. This is the default sort order.
Storage Device Panel
The storage device panel displays server-wide storage utilization statistics.
By default, the information is grouped per storage device. You can also group the statistics per path, per
world, or per partition.
Table 7‑11. Storage Device Panel Statistics
Column Description
DEVICE Name of the storage device.
PATH Path name. This name is visible only if the corresponding device is expanded to paths. See the
interactive command p in Table 7-12.
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