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
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Monitor Hardware Health Status,” on page 104
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“Reset Health Status Sensors,” on page 104
Monitor Hardware Health Status
You can monitor the health status of host hardware in the vSphere Web Client.
Procedure
1 Select a host in the vSphere Web Client navigator.
2 Click the Monitor tab, and click Hardware Status.
3 Select the type of information to view.
Option Description
Sensors
Displays all sensors arranged in a tree view. If the status is blank, the
health monitoring service cannot determine the status of the component.
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Click the Expand All icon to expand the tree view to show all sensors
under each group.
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Click Collapse All icon to expand the tree view to show descriptive
details for every sensor.
Alerts and warnings
Displays alerts and warnings.
System event log
Displays the system event log.
Reset Health Status Sensors
Some host hardware sensors display data that is cumulative over time. You can reset these sensors to clear
the data in them and begin collecting new data.
If you need to preserve sensor data for troubleshooting or other purposes, take a screenshot, export the data,
or download a support bundle before resetting sensors.
Prerequisites
Verify that the vCenter Hardware Status plug-in is enabled.
Procedure
1 Select a host in the vSphere Web Client navigator.
2 Click the Monitor tab, and click Hardware Status.
3 Click Reset sensors.
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