6.0.1
Table Of Contents
- vSphere Monitoring and Performance
- Contents
- About vSphere Monitoring and Performance
- Updated Information
- 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
- Datacenters
- Datastores
- Disk Space (Data Counters)
- Disk Space (File Types)
- Disk Space (Virtual Machines)
- 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 Events, Alarms, and Automated Actions
- View Events
- View System Logs
- Export Events Data
- View Triggered Alarms and Alarm Definitions
- Live Refresh of Recent Tasks and Alarms
- Set an Alarm
- 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 Usage 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
- Index
Monitoring Guest Operating System
Performance 2
This section describes how to install and view VMware-specific performance data for virtual machines that
run Microsoft Windows operating systems. VMware provides performance counters that enable you to view
data on many aspects of guest operating system performance for the Microsoft Windows Perfmon utility.
Some virtualization processes dynamically allocate available resources depending on the status, or
utilization rates, of virtual machines in the environment. This can make obtaining accurate information
about the resource utilization (CPU utilization, in particular) of individual virtual machines, or applications
running within virtual machines, difficult. VMware now provides virtual machine-specific performance
counter libraries for the Windows Perfmon utility that enable application administrators to access accurate
virtual machine resource utilization statistics from within the Windows Perfmon utility.
You can take advantage of virtualized CPU performance counters to use performance tuning tools inside the
guest operating system. See the vSphere Virtual Machine Administration documentation.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Enable Statistics Collection for Guest Operating System Performance Analysis,” on page 101
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“View Performance Statistics for Windows Guest Operating Systems,” on page 101
Enable Statistics Collection for Guest Operating System Performance
Analysis
VMware-specific performance objects are loaded into Microsoft Windows Perfmon and enabled when
VMware Tools is installed.
To display a performance chart for any performance object, you must add counters. See “View Performance
Statistics for Windows Guest Operating Systems,” on page 101
View Performance Statistics for Windows Guest Operating Systems
You can display VMware specific statistics in the Microsoft Windows Perfmon utility.
Prerequisites
Verify that a virtual machine with a Microsoft Windows operating system and VMware Tools is installed.
Procedure
1 Open a console to the virtual machine and log in.
2 Select Start > Run.
3 Enter Perfmon and press Enter.
4 In the Performance dialog box, click Add .
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