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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
Table 1‑6. Performance Chart Views by Inventory Object (Continued)
Object View List Items
Cluster
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Home - CPU and memory charts for the cluster.
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Resource Pools & Virtual Machines - thumbnail charts for resource pools and virtual machines, and
stacked charts for total CPU and memory usage in the cluster.
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Hosts - thumbnail charts for each host in the cluster, and stacked charts for total CPU, memory, disk usage,
and network usage.
Host
n
Home - CPU, memory, disk, and network charts for the host.
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Virtual Machines - thumbnail charts for virtual machines, and stacked charts for total CPU usage and total
memory usage on the host.
Resource Pool
and vApps
n
Home - CPU and memory charts for the resource pool.
n
Resource Pools & Virtual Machines - thumbnail charts for resource pools, and virtual machines and
stacked charts for CPU and memory usage in the resource pool or vApp.
Virtual Machine
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Storage - space utilization charts for the virtual machine: space by file type, space by datastore, and total
gigabytes.
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Fault Tolerance - CPU and memory charts that display comparative metrics for the fault-tolerant primary
and secondary virtual machines.
n
Home - CPU, memory, network, host (thumbnail charts), and disk usage charts for the virtual machine.
Overview Performance Charts
The overview performance charts display the most common metrics for an object in the inventory. Use
these charts to monitor and troubleshoot performance problems.
The metrics provided in Overview performance charts are a subset of those collected for hosts and the
vCenter Server. For a complete list of all metrics collected by hosts and the vCenter Server, see the
vSphere API Reference.
Clusters
The cluster charts contain information about CPU, disk, memory, and network usage for clusters. The
help topic for each chart contains information about the data counters displayed in that chart. The
collection level set for vCenter Server determines the available counters.
CPU (MHz)
The CPU (MHz) chart displays CPU usage for the cluster.
Cluster Counters
This chart is located in the Home view of the Cluster Performance tab.
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