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
fault tolerance virtual machines 88
hosts 16, 35
resource pools 58
resource pools and virtual machines 16
vApps 64
virtual machines 64, 69
CPU used time, fault tolerance virtual
machines 89
CPU,troubleshooting 95
create alarms 109
D
data centers
CPU usage (MHz), clusters 24
memory usage, clusters 25
data collection interval 12
data collection levels 13
data counter 10
datacenter charts 24
datacenters
disk space by datastores 25
disk space by file type 26
datastore, troubleshooting 96
datastore latency 34
datastore charts 27
datastores
disk space by file type 28
disk space by virtual machine 30
disk space data counters 27
diagnostic bundles, generating 164
diagnostic data
creating report 164
export 164
exporting 164
diagnostics, SNMP 161
disk latency, hosts 31, 43
disk rate
hosts 30–34, 39, 42
virtual machines 71
disk size
hosts 40
virtual machines 73
disk space
datacenter, datastores 25
datacenter, file types 26
datastores, file types 28
datastores, virtual machines 30
virtual machines, datastores 86
virtual machines, file types 86
disk space data counters
datastores 27
virtual machines 85
disk usage
clusters 17
hosts 37
virtual machines 45, 70
disk,troubleshooting 97
downloading, diagnostic bundles 164
E
email, content of vCenter Server
notifications 113
empty performance charts 99
encryption, SNMP 154
engine ID, SNMP 154
environment variables, alarms 114, 115
error logs, VMkernel 171
ESX Agent Manager 124
ESXi
configuring SNMP 150, 152, 153
log files 169
syslog service 166
ESXi log files 165
esxtop
batch mode 143
common statistics description 129
CPU panel 130
CPU Power panel 133
interactive mode 128
interactive mode command-line options 128
interactive mode single-key commands 129
interrupt panel 142
memory panel 134
network panel 141
order pages 129
performance monitoring 127
replay mode 144
statistics column 129
storage adapter panel 137
storage device panel 138
virtual machine storage panel 140
events
exporting 107
viewing 106
events,described 105
exporting, diagnostic data 164
F
fans, monitoring 103
fault tolerance charts 88
fault tolerance virtual machines
CPU system time 88
CPU usage (MHz) 88
CPU used time 89
memory active 90
memory swapout 91
filtering traps, SNMP 158
vSphere Monitoring and Performance
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