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
resource pools 57
resource pools and virtual machines 15
vApps 63
virtual machines 63, 68
CPU usage (%)
hosts 33
resource pools, virtual machines 58
virtual machines 35, 67
CPU used time, fault tolerance virtual
machines 88
CPU,troubleshooting 94
create alarms 110
D
data centers
CPU usage (MHz), clusters 22
memory usage, clusters 23
data collection interval 10
data collection levels 11
data counter 8
database
limiting size 108
retention policy 108
datacenter charts 22
datacenters
disk space by datastores 24, 28
disk space by file type 24
datastore, troubleshooting 95
datastore latency 33
datastore charts 26
datastores
disk space by file type 27
disk space by virtual machine 28
disk space data counters 26
diagnostic bundles, generating 167
diagnostic data
creating report 167
export 166
exporting 167
diagnostics, SNMP 163
disk latency, hosts 30, 42
disk rate
hosts 29–33, 38, 41
virtual machines 70
disk size
hosts 39
virtual machines 72
disk space
datacenter, datastores 24, 28
datacenter, file types 24
datastores, file types 27
datastores, virtual machines 28
virtual machines, datastores 85
virtual machines, file types 85
disk space data counters
datastores 26
virtual machines 84
disk usage
clusters 15
hosts 36
virtual machines 44, 69
disk,troubleshooting 96
downloading, diagnostic bundles 167
E
email, content of vCenter Server
notifications 115
empty performance charts 98
encryption, SNMP 156
engine ID, SNMP 156
environment variables, alarms 116, 117
error logs, VMkernel 174
ESX Agent Manager 126
ESXi
configuring SNMP 152, 154, 155
log files 173
syslog service 169
ESXi log files 168
esxtop
batch mode 145
common statistics description 131
CPU panel 132
CPU Power panel 135
interactive mode 130
interactive mode command-line options 130
interactive mode single-key commands 131
interrupt panel 144
memory panel 136
network panel 143
order pages 131
performance monitoring 129
replay mode 146
statistics column 131
storage adapter panel 139
storage device panel 140
virtual machine storage panel 142
events
clean up 108
configuring retention policy 108
exporting 105
retention 108
stream to a remote syslog server 106
streaming 106
viewing 105
events,described 103
exporting, diagnostic data 167
vSphere Monitoring and Performance
180 VMware, Inc.