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 1‑6. Performance Chart Views by Inventory Object (Continued)
Object View List Items
Cluster
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Home - CPU and memory charts for the cluster.
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Resource Pools & Virtual Machines - thumbnail charts for resource pools and virtual machines,
and stacked charts for total CPU and memory usage in the cluster.
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Hosts - thumbnail charts for each host in the cluster, and stacked charts for total CPU, memory,
disk usage, and network usage.
Host
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Home - CPU, memory, disk, and network charts for the host.
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Virtual Machines - thumbnail charts for virtual machines, and stacked charts for total CPU usage
and total memory usage on the host.
Resource Pool
and vApps
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Home - CPU and memory charts for the resource pool.
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Resource Pools & Virtual Machines - thumbnail charts for resource pools, and virtual machines
and stacked charts for CPU and memory usage in the resource pool or vApp.
Virtual
Machine
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Storage - space utilization charts for the virtual machine: space by file type, space by datastore, and
total gigabytes.
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Fault Tolerance - CPU and memory charts that display comparative metrics for the fault-tolerant
primary and secondary virtual machines.
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Home - CPU, memory, network, host (thumbnail charts), and disk usage charts for the virtual
machine.
Overview Performance Charts
The overview performance charts display the most common metrics for an object in the inventory. Use these
charts to monitor and troubleshoot performance problems.
The metrics provided in Overview performance charts are a subset of those collected for hosts and the
vCenter Server. For a complete list of all metrics collected by hosts and the vCenter Server, see the vSphere
API Reference.
Clusters
The cluster charts contain information about CPU, disk, memory, and network usage for clusters. The help
topic for each chart contains information about the data counters displayed in that chart. The counters
available are determined by the collection level set for vCenter Server.
CPU (MHz)
The CPU (MHz) chart displays CPU usage for the cluster.
Cluster Counters
This chart is located in the Home view of the Cluster Performance tab.
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