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
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You log in to vSphere Web Client A from https://hostnameA:9443/vsphere-client/. You can see live
refresh of recent tasks and alarms for all the users currently performing operations on both
vCenter Server systems in the vCenter Server Single-Sign On domain.
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You log in to vSphere Web Client B from https://hostnameB/vsphere-client/. You can see the recent
tasks and alarms of only operations that you perform on vCenter Server system A or vCenter Server
system B. Only after you manually refresh the vSphere Web Client B you see the latest recent tasks and
alarms that result from operations performed by other users on vCenter Server system A and
vCenter Server system B.
Set an Alarm
You can monitor inventory objects by setting alarms on them. Setting an alarm involves selecting the type of
inventory object to monitor, defining when and for how long the alarm will trigger, and defining actions
that will be performed as a result of the alarm being triggered. You define alarms in the alarm definition
wizard under the Manage tab.
Prerequisites
Verify that you have logged in to the vSphere Web Client.
Required Privilege: Alarms.Create alarm or Alarms.Modify alarm
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View and Edit Alarm Settings on page 109
To monitor your environment, you can create and modify alarm definitions in the vSphere Web
Client. You can view alarm settings from any object, but you can modify settings only through the
object on which the alarm is defined.
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Specify Alarm Name, Description, and Type on page 110
General settings of an alarm definition include alarm name, description, and type. You can also enable
and disable the alarm from the general settings page. When you select the alarm type, you also select
the type of inventory object and the type of activity (events, or conditions and states) that you want to
monitor. The options on the Triggers page change depending on the type of activity that you choose to
monitor.
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Specify How an Event-Based Alarm is Triggered on page 110
You can specify the events, states, or conditions that trigger the alarm on the Triggers page of the
alarm definition wizard. The alarm type options that you selected determine the options available on
the Triggers page. An alarm definition must contain at least one trigger before you can save it.
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Specify How a Condition-Based or State-Based Alarm is Triggered on page 111
You can select and configure the events, states, or conditions that trigger the alarm on the Triggers
page of the alarm definition wizard. The options that you choose on the General page of the alarm
definition wizard determine the options available on the Triggers page. An alarm definition must
contain at least one trigger before you can save it.
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Specify Alarm Actions on page 112
You can define actions that the system performs when the alarm is triggered or changes status. You
can enable and disable alarms and alarm actions independently of each other.
View and Edit Alarm Settings
To monitor your environment, you can create and modify alarm definitions in the vSphere Web Client. You
can view alarm settings from any object, but you can modify settings only through the object on which the
alarm is defined.
You can access alarm definitions in the Manage tab or in the pop-up menu.
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