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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
Network Packets (Number)
The Network Packets chart displays the network bandwidth on a host.
This chart is located in the Home view of the Host Performance tab.
Table 1‑75. Data Counters
Chart Label Description
Packets Received Number of network packets received across the top ten physical NIC instances on the host.
The chart also displays the aggregated value for all NICs.
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Counter: packetRx
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Stats Type: Absolute
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Unit: Number
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Rollup Type: Summation
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Collection Level: 3
Packets Transmitted Number of network packets transmitted across the top ten physical NIC instances on the
host. The chart also displays the aggregated value for all NICs.
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Counter: packetTx
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Stats Type: Absolute
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Unit: Number
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Rollup Type: Summation
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Collection Level: 3
Chart Analysis
Network performance depends on the application workload and network configuration. Dropped network
packets indicate a bottleneck in the network. To determine whether packets are being dropped, use
esxtop or the advanced performance charts to examine the droppedTx and droppedRx network counter
values.
If packets are being dropped, adjust the virtual machine shares. If packets are not being dropped, check
the size of the network packets and the data receive and transfer rates. In general, the larger the network
packets, the faster the network speed. When the packet size is large, fewer packets are transferred,
which reduces the amount of CPU required to process the data. When network packets are small, more
packets are transferred but the network speed is slower because more CPU is required to process the
data.
Note In some instances, large packets might result in a high network latency. To check the network
latency, use the VMware AppSpeed performance monitoring application or a third-party application.
If packets are not being dropped and the data receive rate is slow, the host is probably lacking the CPU
resources required to handle the load. Check the number of virtual machines assigned to each physical
NIC. If necessary, perform load balancing by moving virtual machines to different vSwitches or by adding
more NICs to the host. You can also move virtual machines to another host or increase the host CPU or
virtual machine CPU.
If you experience network-related performance problems, also consider taking the following actions.
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