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 61
virtual machines 78
memory swap rates
hosts 47
virtual machines 77
memory swapout, fault tolerance virtual
machines 90
memory, troubleshooting 95
metric groups 7
metric groups,description 9
MIB files 162
monitor, guest operating system
performance 99
monitoring
health status, services, nodes 127
performance charts 7
virtual environment 5
monitoring, health status 127
N
network
SNMP traps 115, 116
SNMP 151
troubleshooting 97
network size
hosts 54
virtual machines 82
network rate
hosts 53
virtual machines 81
network usage
clusters 21
hosts 51
virtual machines 55, 80
networks, health monitoring 101
notification emails, alarms 113
notification traps, alarms 113
notifications, See traps
O
object identifiers (OIDs) 162
overview charts
cluster charts 13
datacenter charts 22
datastore charts 26
fault tolerance charts 87
host charts 33
resource pool charts 57
vApp charts 63
virtual machine charts 67
P
Perfmon utility 99
performance
advanced charts 91
statistics collection 9
troubleshooting 93
virtual machine 99
performance charts
about 7
advanced charts
about 91
deleting views 93
viewing 91
customizing 92
data collection 7
data collection intervals 10
data collection levels 11
overview charts 13
saving data to a file 93
types 8
performance charts, views 12
performance monitoring 129
performance statistics, Windows guest operating
systems 99
pie charts, description 8
ports, for SNMP 153
power, health monitoring 101
preconfigured alarms 120
privacy, SNMP 156
processors, health monitoring 101
R
recent tasks
automatic refresh 109
live refresh 109
redirecting, log files 106
replay mode
command-line options 146
preparing for 146
reset sensors, host health 102
resource pool charts 57
resource pools
CPU usage (%), virtual machines 58
CPU usage (MHz) 57
memory consumed, virtual machines 60
memory data counters 61
memory usage 59
resxtop
batch mode 145
common statistics description 131
CPU panel 132
CPU Power panel 135
interactive mode 130
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