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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)
- Space Allocated by Datastore in GB
- Space Capacity by Datastore in GB
- 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 vSphere Health
- 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 in the vSphere Web Client
- Set an Alarm in the vSphere Client
- 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
Datastore counters
Table 1‑125. Data Counters
File Type Description
Virtual Disks Amount of disk space used by virtual disk files.
Virtual disk files store the contents of the virtual machine's hard disk drive, including information that you
write to a virtual machine's hard disk - the operating system, program files, and data files. The files have
the extension .vmdk and appear as a physical disk drive to a guest operating system.
Note Delta disks, which also have an extension .vmdk, are not included in this file type.
n
Counter: used
n
Stats Type: Absolute
n
Unit: Gigabytes (GB)
n
Rollup Type: Latest
n
Collection Level: 1 (4)
Swap Files Amount of disk space used by swap files.
Swap files back up the virtual machine's physical memory.
n
Counter: used
n
Stats Type: Absolute
n
Unit: Gigabytes (GB)
n
Rollup Type: Latest
n
Collection Level: 1 (4)
Snapshots Amount of disk space used by virtual machine snapshot files.
Snapshot files store information about virtual machine snapshots. They include snapshot state files and
delta disk files. A snapshot state file stores the running state of the virtual machine at the time of the
snapshot. It has the extension .vmsn. A delta disk file stores the updates made by the virtual machine to
the virtual disks after a snapshot is taken.
n
Counter: used
n
Stats Type: Absolute
n
Unit: GigaBytes (GB)
n
Rollup Type: Latest
n
Collection Level: 1 (4)
Other VM Files Amount of disk space used by all other virtual machine files, such as configuration files and log files.
n
Counter: used
n
Stats Type: Absolute
n
Unit: Gigabytes (GB)
n
Rollup Type: Latest
n
Collection Level: 1 (4)
Total Space Amount of disk space used by the virtual machine.
total space = virtual disk space + swap file space + snapshot space + other VM file space
Chart Analysis
The datastore is at full capacity when the used space is equal to the capacity. Allocated space can be
larger than datastore capacity, for example, when you have snapshots and thin-provisioned disks. If
possible, you can provision more space to the datastore, or you can add disks to the datastore or use
shared datastores.
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