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
monitoring, health status 125
N
network
SNMP traps 114
SNMP 149
troubleshooting 98
network rate
hosts 54
virtual machines 82
network size
hosts 55
virtual machines 83
network usage
clusters 23
hosts 52
virtual machines 56, 81
networks, health monitoring 103
notification emails, alarms 112
notification traps, alarms 112
notifications, See traps
O
object identifiers (OIDs) 160
overview charts
cluster charts 15
datacenter charts 24
datastore charts 27
fault tolerance charts 88
host charts 34
resource pool charts 58
vApp charts 64
virtual machine charts 68
P
Perfmon utility 101
performance
advanced charts 92
statistics collection 11
troubleshooting 94
virtual machine 101
performance charts
about 9
advanced charts
about 92
deleting views 94
viewing 92
customizing 93
data collection 9
data collection intervals 12
data collection levels 13
overview charts 15
saving data to a file 94
types 10
performance charts, views 14
performance monitoring 127
performance statistics, Windows guest operating
systems 101
pie charts, description 10
ports, for SNMP 151
power, health monitoring 103
preconfigured alarms 118
privacy, SNMP 154
processors, health monitoring 103
R
recent tasks
automatic refresh 108
live refresh 108
replay mode
command-line options 144
preparing for 144
reset sensors, host health 104
resource pool charts 58
resource pools
CPU usage (%), virtual machines 59
CPU usage (MHz) 58
memory consumed, virtual machines 60
memory data counters 62
memory usage 60
resxtop
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
options 128
order pages 129
performance monitoring 127
statistics column 129
storage adapter panel 137
storage device panel 138
virtual machine storage panel 140
S
scripts, alarms 114, 115
services
monitoring in interactive mode 145
syslogd 166
SIOC activity report 31
SMASH 103
SMTP, configuring 113
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