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
interactive mode command-line options 130
interactive mode single-key commands 131
interrupt panel 144
memory panel 136
network panel 143
options 130
order pages 131
performance monitoring 129
statistics column 131
storage adapter panel 139
storage device panel 140
virtual machine storage panel 142
S
scripts, alarms 116, 117
services
monitoring in interactive mode 147
syslogd 169
SIOC activity report 30
SMASH 101
SMTP, configuring 114
SNMP
authentication 156
CIM indications 160
communities 154
configuring 151, 152
configuring for ESXi 152
configuring traps 155
diagnostics 161, 163
encryption 156
engine ID 156
filtering traps 160
GET 153
guest operating systems 162
IPMI sensors 160
management software 161
polling 153
ports 153
privacy 156
targets 158
traps 151
users 157
v3 traps 158
SNMP traps 115, 116
SNMP v1 154
SNMP v2c 154
SNMP v3 155
solutions
monitor 125
view 125
stacked charts, description 8
statistics
about vCenter Server data 9
collecting for guest operating systems 99
statistics, esxtop 131
statistics, resxtop 131
storage, health monitoring 101
storage,troubleshooting 95
syslog, log filtering 173
system log files, downloading 167
system logs
configuring 172
ESXi 166
VMkernel 174
vSphere Web Client 166
Systems Management Architecture for Server
Hardware, See SMASH
T
tasks, configuring retention policy 108
temperature, monitoring 101
traps
configuring SNMP traps 155
SNMP 115, 116, 151
triggered alarms, acknowledging 119
triggers, event-based 112
troubleshoot, performance 93
troubleshooting
CPU 94
datastores 95
disk 96
log files 165, 172
memory 95
networking 97
storage 95
U
users, SNMP 157
V
vApp charts 63
vApps
CPU usage (MHz) 63
CPU usage (MHz), virtual machines 63
memory consumed, virtual machines 65
memory usage 64
vCenter Server
configuring SNMP 152
performance statistics 9
SNMP 115, 151
vCenter Server Appliance, redirecting log
files 106
vCenter Server email agent 115
vCenter Solutions Manager 125
verbose logging, configuring 172
Index
VMware, Inc. 183