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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 10‑1. VMware MIB Files
MIB File Description
VMWARE-ROOT-MIB.mib
Contains VMware’s enterprise OID and top-level OID assignments.
VMWARE-AGENTCAP-MIB.mib
Defines the capabilities of the VMware agents by product versions. This file is
optional and might not be supported by all management systems.
VMWARE-CIMOM-MIB.mib
Defines variables and trap types used to report on the state of the CIM Object
Management subsystem.
VMWARE-ENV-MIB.mib
Defines variables and trap types used to report on the state of physical hardware
components of the host computer. Enables conversion of CIM indications to SNMP
traps.
VMWARE-OBSOLETE-MIB.mib
For use with versions of ESX/ESXi prior to 4.0. Defines OIDs that have been made
obsolete to maintain backward compatibility with earlier versions of ESX/ESXi.
Includes variables formerly defined in the files VMWARE-TRAPS-MIB.mib and
VMWARE-VMKERNEL-MIB.mib.
VMWARE-PRODUCTS-MIB.mib
Defines OIDs to uniquely identify each SNMP agent on each VMware platform by
name, version, and build platform.
VMWARE-RESOURCES-MIB.mib
Defines variables used to report information on resource usage of the VMkernel,
including physical memory, CPU, and disk utilization.
VMWARE-SYSTEM-MIB.mib
The VMWARE-SYSTEM-MIB.mib file is obsolete. Use the SNMPv2-MIB to obtain
information from sysDescr.0 and sysObjec ID.0.
VMWARE-TC-MIB.mib
Defines common textual conventions used by VMware MIB files.
VMWARE-VC-EVENTS-MIB.mib
Defines traps sent by vCenter Server. Load this file if you use vCenter Server to
send traps.
VMWARE-VMINFO-MIB.mib
Defines variables for reporting information about virtual machines, including virtual
machine traps.
The table Other MIB Files lists MIB files included in the VMware MIB files package that are not created by
VMware. These can be used with the VMware MIB files to provide additional information.
Table 10‑2. Other MIB Files
MIB File Description
ENTITY-MIB.mib
Allows the description of relationships between physical entities
and logical entities managed by the same SNMP agent. See
RFC 4133 for more information.
HOST-RESOURCES-MIB.mib
Defines objects that are useful for managing host computers.
HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES.mib
Defines storage, device, and filesystem types for use with HOST-
RESOURCES-MIB.mib.
IEEE8021-BRIDGE-MIB
Defines objects for managing devices that support IEEE 802.1D.
IEEE8023-LAG-MIB
Defines objects for managing devices that support IEEE
802.3ad link aggregation.
IEEE8021-Q-BRIDGE-MIB
Defines objects for managing Virtual Bridged Local Area
Networks.
IF-MIB.mib
Defines attributes related to physical NICs on the host system.
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