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
SNMP
authentication 154
CIM indications 157
communities 152
configuring 149, 150
configuring for ESXi 150
configuring traps 152
diagnostics 159, 161
encryption 154
engine ID 154
filtering traps 158
GET 151
guest operating systems 159
IPMI sensors 157
management software 159
polling 151
ports 151
privacy 154
targets 156
traps 149
users 155
v3 traps 156
SNMP traps 114
SNMP v1 152
SNMP v2c 152
SNMP v3 153
solutions
monitor 123
view 123
stacked charts, description 10
statistics
about vCenter Server data 11
collecting for guest operating systems 101
statistics, esxtop 129
statistics, resxtop 129
storage, health monitoring 103
storage,troubleshooting 96
syslog, log filtering 170
system log files, downloading 164
system logs
configuring 168
ESXi 164
VMkernel 171
Systems Management Architecture for Server
Hardware, See SMASH
T
temperature, monitoring 103
traps
configuring SNMP traps 152
SNMP 114, 149
triggered alarms, acknowledging 117
triggers, event-based 110
troubleshoot, performance 94
troubleshooting
CPU 95
datastores 96
disk 97
log files 163, 168
memory 96
networking 98
storage 96
U
updated information 7
users, SNMP 155
V
vApp charts 64
vApps
CPU usage (MHz) 64
CPU usage (MHz), virtual machines 64
memory consumed, virtual machines 66
memory usage 65
vCenter Server
configuring SNMP 150
performance statistics 11
SNMP 113, 149
vCenter Server email agent 113
vCenter Solutions Manager 123
verbose logging, configuring 168
vimtop
command-line options 145
interactive mode single-key commands 146
overview 145
using 145
virtual machine counters 75
virtual machine charts 68
virtual machines
CPU usage (%) 36, 68
CPU usage (MHz) 69
disk rate 71
disk size 73
disk space by datastores 86
disk space by file type 86
disk space data counters 85
disk usage 70
memory balloon 77
memory data counters 79
memory swap rates 78
memory usage 76
network rate 82
network size 83
network usage 81
performance 101
Index
VMware, Inc. 179