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
3 Press Enter or the spacebar to scroll through the messages.
4 (Optional) Perform a regular expression search.
a Press the slash key (/).
b Type the text to find.
c Press Enter
The found text is highlighted on the screen.
5 Press q to return to the direct console.
External System Logs
VMware technical support might request several files to help resolve any issues you have with the product.
This section describes the types and locations of log files found on various ESXi component systems.
NOTE On Windows systems, several log files are stored in the Local Settings directory, which is located at
C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Local Settings\. This folder is hidden by default.
ESXi System Logs
You might need the ESXi system log files to resolve technical issues.
The ESXi system logs can be found in the /var/run/log directory.
vSphere Client System Logs
You might need the vSphere Client system log files to resolve technical issues.
Table 10-1 lists log files associated with the vSphere Client machine.
Table 10‑1. vSphere Client System Logs
Component Location
vSphere Client
Installation log
Temp directory on the vSphere Client machine.
Pre-Windows 2008 example: C:\Documents and Settings\Local
Settings\Temp\vminst.log or vim-vic-msi.log
Windows 2008 and Windows 7 example:
C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Local\Temp\vminst.log or vim-vic-msi.log
vSphere Client
Service log
\vpx directory in the Application Data directory on the vSphere Client machine.
Pre-Windows 2008 example: C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Local
Settings\Application Data\VMware\vpx\viclient-x.log
Windows 2008 and Window 7 example: C:\Users\user_name\Local
Settings\AppData\Local\VMware\vpx\viclient-x.log
x(=0, 1, ... 9)
Export System Log Files
When the vSphere Web Client is connected to vCenter Server, you can select hosts from which to download
system log files.
To save diagnostic data for ESXi hosts and vCenter Server, the vSphere Web Client must be connected to the
vCenter Server system.
Required privileges:
n
To view diagnostic data: Read-Only User
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