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
G
guest operating systems
logging levels 167
SNMP 159
guest operating statistics, enabling 101
H
hardware health, reset sensors 104
health status, monitoring 104
host counters 75
host security, logging 165
host charts 34
host health, reset sensors 104
hosts
CPU usage 34
CPU usage (MHz) 35
disk latency 31, 43
disk rate 30–34, 39, 42
disk size 40
disk usage 37
hardware monitoring 103
health status 104
memory balloon 47
memory data counters 49
memory swap rates 48
memory usage 46
memory usage, virtual machines 51
network rate 54
network size 55
network usage 52
network usage, virtual machines 56
I
interactive mode, running vimtop 145
inventory objects, set alarm on 109
IPMI sensors, SNMP 157
L
line charts, description 10
live refresh 108
Log Browser 171
log browser, adjust times 173
Log Browser, advanced filters 172
Log Browser, browse from different objects 174
Log Browser, compare 173
Log Browser, export 173
Log Browser, filter logs 172
log browser, manage 174
log browser, retrieving 171
log browser, searching 172
log files
changing log file number 167
collecting 168, 169
ESXi 165, 169
export 164
external 164
limiting number 167
locating 169
turning off compression 171
log filtering 170
logging, host security 165
logging levels, guest operating systems 167
logs
collecting 169
ESXi 164
system 107
vSphere Client 164
See also troubleshooting
M
managed devices, MIB files 160
memory, health monitoring 103
memory balloon
hosts 47
virtual machines 77
memory usage
clusters 19
data centers, clusters 25
hosts 22, 46
resource pools and virtual machines 22
resource pools 60
vApps 65
virtual machines 51, 76
memory active, fault tolerance virtual
machines 90
memory consumed
resource pools, virtual machines 60
vApps, virtual machines 66
memory data counters
clusters 20
hosts 49
resource pools 62
virtual machines 79
memory swap rates
hosts 48
virtual machines 78
memory swapout, fault tolerance virtual
machines 91
memory, troubleshooting 96
metric groups 9
metric groups,description 11
MIB files 160
monitor, guest operating system
performance 101
monitoring
health status, services, nodes 125
performance charts 9
virtual environment 5
Index
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