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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 1‑107. Data Counters
Chart Label Description
Read Requests Number of virtual disk read commands completed on each virtual disk on the
virtual machine. The aggregate number of all virtual disk read commands is also
displayed in the chart.
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Counter: numberRead
n
Stats Type: Absolute
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Unit: Number
n
Rollup Type: Average
n
Collection Level: 2
Write Requests Number of virtual disk write commands completed on each virtual disk on the
virtual machine. The aggregate number of all virtual disk write commands is also
displayed in the chart.
n
Counter: numberWrite
n
Stats Type: Absolute
n
Unit: Number
n
Rollup Type: Average
n
Collection Level: 2
Virtual Disk Rate (KBps)
The Virtual Disk Rate chart displays virtual disk usage rate for the virtual machine.
After you click Overview on the Performance tab of the virtual machine, you can view this chart by
selecting Home from the View drop-down menu. It is available only at collection levels 3 and 4.
Table 1‑108. Data Counters
Chart Label Description
Read Requests Number of virtual disk read commands completed on each virtual disk on the
virtual machine. The aggregate number of all virtual disk read commands per
second is also displayed in the chart. Read rate = blocksRead per second ×
blockSize
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Counter: read
n
Stats Type: Rate
n
Unit: KiloBytes per second (KBps)
n
Rollup Type: Average
n
Collection Level: 3
Write Requests Number of virtual disk write commands completed on each virtual disk on the
virtual machine per second. The aggregate number of all virtual disk write
commands per second is also displayed in the chart. Write rate = blocksWritten
per second × blockSize
n
Counter: write
n
Stats Type: Rate
n
Unit: KiloBytes per second (KBps)
n
Rollup Type: Average
n
Collection Level: 3
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