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
Table 4‑6. Default vSphere Alarms (Continued)
Alarm Name Description
Appliance Management Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the Appliance Management
Service.
Inventory Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the Inventory Service.
vCenter Server Health Alarm Monitors the health status of vCenter Server.
Data Service Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the Data Service.
RBD Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the vSphere Auto Deploy
Waiter.
vService Manager Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the vService Manager.
Performance Charts Service Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the Performance Charts
Service.
Content Library Service Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the VMware Content Library
Service.
Transfer Service Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the VMware Transfer Service.
VMware vSphere ESXi Dump Collector Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the VMware vSphere ESXi
Dump Collector Service.
VMware vAPI Endpoint Service Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the VMware vAPI Endpoint
Service.
VMware System and Hardware Health Manager Service
Health Alarm
Monitors the health status of the VMware System and
Hardware Health Manager Service.
VMware vSphere Profile-Driven Storage Service Health
Alarm
Monitors the health status of the VMware vSphere Profile-
Driven Storage Service.
VMware Common Logging Service Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the VMware Common
Logging Service.
VMware vFabric Postgres Service Health Alarm Monitors the health status of the VMware vFabric Postgres
Service.
ESXi Host Certificates Update Failure Status Monitors whether the update of the ESXi host certificates
failed.
ESXi Host Certificate Status Monitors the certificate status of an ESXi host.
ESXi Host Certificate Verification Failure Status Monitors whether the verification of an ESXi host
certificate failed.
vSphere vCenter Host Certificate Management Mode Monitors changes in the certificate management mode of
vCenter Server.
Root Certificate Status Monitors whether a root certificate is getting close to its
expiration date.
GPU ECC Uncorrected Memory Alarm Monitors the GPU ECC uncorrected memory status.
GPU ECC Corrected Memory Alarm Monitors the GPU ECC corrected memory status.
GPU Thermal Condition Alarm Monitors the GPU Thermal condition status.
Network connectivity lost Monitors the network connectivity on a virtual switch.
Network uplink redundancy lost Monitors network uplink redundancy on a virtual switch.
Network uplink redundancy degraded * Monitors network uplink redundancy degradation on a
virtual switch.
VMKernel NIC not configured correctly * Monitors incorrectly configured VMkernel NICs.
Cannot connect to storage * Monitors host connectivity to a storage device.
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