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
Index
A
agent manager 126
alarm actions
described 103
email notifications 115
notification traps 113
running a script 113
setting up 113
alarm environment variables 118
alarms
acknowledging triggered alarms 119
automatic refresh 109
commands 116
condition or state-based 112
create 110
definitions 109
described 103
general settings 111
live refresh 109
network 115, 116
notification emails 113
resetting triggered event alarms 119
scripts 116, 117
send email as alarm action 114
set on inventory object 110
SMTP settings 114
SNMP traps 115, 116
triggered 109
triggers 112
viewing 109
alarms environment variables 117
alarms,environment variables 116
alarms,triggers 112
alarms,view settings 111
authentication, SNMP 156
automatic refresh 109
B
bar charts, description 8
batch mode
command-line options 145
preparing for 144
C
cable/interconnect, health monitoring 101
charts
adding custom to Switch to menu 92
advanced 91
customizing 91, 92
empty 98
saving data to a file 93
settings 92
viewing 12
See also performance charts
CIM indications, SNMP 160
cluster charts 13
clusters
CPU usage (MHz) 13
disk usage 15
memory data counters 18
memory usage
hosts 20
resource pools and virtual
machines 20
network usage 21
collection intervals 7
collection levels 7
commands, alarms 116
communities, SNMP 154
configure, events stream to a remote syslog
server 107
core dumps 174
counters
data 8
host 74
virtual machine 74
CPU, health monitoring 101
CPU panel
esxtop 132
resxtop 132
CPU Power panel
esxtop 135
resxtop 135
CPU system time, fault tolerance virtual
machines 87
CPU usage (MHz)
clusters 13
data centers, clusters 22
fault tolerance virtual machines 87
hosts 15, 34
VMware, Inc. 179