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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 5‑6. Default vSphere Alarms (Continued)
Alarm Name Description
VASA provider disconnected Monitors the changes in the connection state of VASA providers.
VASA Provider certificate expiration alarm Monitors whether VASA provider certificates are getting close to
their expiry date.
VM storage compliance alarm Monitors the virtual disk compliance with the object-based
storage.
Datastore compliance alarm Monitors wether the virtual disk on the datastore complies with
the object-based storage.
Refreshing CA certificates and CRLs for a VASA provider failed Monitors whether the refreshing of CA certificates and CRLs for
some of the VASA providers has failed.
Insufficient vSphere HA failover resources Monitors the sufficiency of failover cluster resources required for
vSphere High Availability.
vSphere HA failover in progress Monitors the failover progress of vSphere High Availability.
Cannot find vSphere HA master agent Monitors whether vCenter Server is able to connect to a
vSphere High Availability master agent.
vSphere HA host status Monitors the host health status reported by vSphere High
Availability.
vSphere HA virtual machine failover failed Monitors whether a failover operation that uses vSphere High
Availability failed.
vSphere HA virtual machine monitoring action Monitors whether vSphere High Availability has restarted a
virtual machine.
vSphere HA virtual machine monitoring error Monitors whether vSphere High Availability failed to reset a
virtual machine.
vSphere HA VM Component Protection could not power off a
virtual machine
Monitors whether vSphere High Availability VM Component
Protection cannot power off a virtual machine with an
inaccessible datastore.
License error * Monitors license errors.
Health status changed * Monitors changes to service and extension health status.
Virtual machine component protection restart error Monitors whether the vSphere HA VM Component Protection
fails to restart a virtual machine.
Storage DRS recommendation Monitors Storage DRS recommendations.
Storage DRS is not supported on a host Monitors and alerts when Storage DRS is not supported on a
host.
Datastore cluster is out of space Monitors whether a datastore cluster runs out of disk space.
Datastore is in multiple datacenters Monitors whether a datastore in a datastore cluster is visible in
more than one data center.
vSphere Distributed Switch VLAN trunked status Monitors changes in vSphere Distributed Switch VLAN trunked
status.
vSphere Distributed Switch MTU matched status Monitors changes in vSphere Distributed Switch MTU matched
status.
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