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
F
fans, monitoring 101
fault tolerance charts 87
fault tolerance virtual machines
CPU system time 87
CPU usage (MHz) 87
CPU used time 88
memory active 89
memory swapout 90
filtering traps, SNMP 160
G
guest operating systems
logging levels 170
SNMP 162
guest operating statistics, enabling 99
H
hardware health, reset sensors 102
health status, monitoring 102
host counters 74
host security, logging 168
host charts 33
host health, reset sensors 102
hosts
CPU usage 33
CPU usage (MHz) 34
disk latency 30, 42
disk rate 29–33, 38, 41
disk size 39
disk usage 36
hardware monitoring 101
health status 102
memory balloon 46
memory data counters 48
memory swap rates 47
memory usage 45
memory usage, virtual machines 50
network rate 53
network size 54
network usage 51
network usage, virtual machines 55
I
interactive mode, running vimtop 147
inventory objects, set alarm on 110
IPMI sensors, SNMP 160
L
line charts, description 8
live refresh 109
log browser
enable on vCenter Server Appliance 175
enable on vCenter Server that runs on
Windows 175
Log Browser 175
log browser, adjust times 177
Log Browser, advanced filters 177
Log Browser, browse from different objects 178
Log Browser, compare 178
Log Browser, export 177
Log Browser, filter logs 176
log browser, manage 178
log browser, retrieving 176
log browser, searching 176
log files
changing log file number 170
collecting 172
ESXi 168, 172, 173
export 166
limiting number 170
locating 173
turning off compression 174
log filtering 173
logging, host security 168
logging levels, guest operating systems 170
logs
collecting 172
ESXi 166
system 105
vSphere Web Client 166
See also troubleshooting
M
managed devices, MIB files 162
memory, health monitoring 101
memory balloon
hosts 46
virtual machines 76
memory usage
clusters 17
data centers, clusters 23
hosts 20, 45
resource pools and virtual machines 20
resource pools 59
vApps 64
virtual machines 50, 75
memory active, fault tolerance virtual
machines 89
memory consumed
resource pools, virtual machines 60
vApps, virtual machines 65
memory data counters
clusters 18
hosts 48
Index
VMware, Inc. 181