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
Index
A
agent manager 124
alarm actions
described 105
email notifications 113
notification traps 112
running a script 112
setting up 112
alarm environment variables 116
alarms
acknowledging triggered alarms 117
automatic refresh 108
commands 114
condition or state-based 111
create 109
definitions 107
described 105
general settings 110
live refresh 108
network 114
notification emails 112
resetting triggered event alarms 117
scripts 114, 115
send email as alarm action 113
set on inventory object 109
SMTP settings 113
SNMP traps 114
triggered 107
triggers 111
viewing 107
alarms environment variables 115
alarms,environment variables 114
alarms,triggers 110
alarms,view settings 109
authentication, SNMP 154
automatic refresh 108
B
bar charts, description 10
batch mode
command-line options 143
preparing for 142
C
cable/interconnect, health monitoring 103
charts
adding custom to Switch to menu 93
advanced 92
customizing 92, 93
empty 99
saving data to a file 94
settings 93
viewing 14
See also performance charts
CIM indications, SNMP 157
cluster charts 15
clusters
CPU usage (MHz) 15
disk usage 17
memory data counters 20
memory usage
hosts 22
resource pools and virtual
machines 22
network usage 23
collection intervals 9
collection levels 9
commands, alarms 114
communities, SNMP 152
core dumps 171
counters
data 10
host 75
virtual machine 75
CPU, health monitoring 103
CPU panel
esxtop 130
resxtop 130
CPU Power panel
esxtop 133
resxtop 133
CPU system time, fault tolerance virtual
machines 88
CPU usage (%)
hosts 34
resource pools, virtual machines 59
virtual machines 36, 68
CPU usage (MHz)
clusters 15
data centers, clusters 24
VMware, Inc. 175