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
Contents
About vSphere Monitoring and Performance 5
Updated Information 7
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Monitoring Inventory Objects with Performance Charts 9
Performance Chart Types 10
Data Counters 10
Metric Groups in vSphere 11
Data Collection Intervals 12
Data Collection Levels 13
View Performance Charts 14
Performance Charts Options Available Under the View Menu 14
Overview Performance Charts 15
Working with Advanced and Custom Charts 92
Troubleshoot and Enhance Performance 94
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Monitoring Guest Operating System Performance 101
Enable Statistics Collection for Guest Operating System Performance Analysis 101
View Performance Statistics for Windows Guest Operating Systems 101
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Monitoring Host Health Status 103
Monitor Hardware Health Status 104
Reset Health Status Sensors 104
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Monitoring Events, Alarms, and Automated Actions 105
View Events 106
View System Logs 107
Export Events Data 107
View Triggered Alarms and Alarm Definitions 107
Live Refresh of Recent Tasks and Alarms 108
Set an Alarm 109
Acknowledge Triggered Alarms 117
Reset Triggered Event Alarms 117
Preconfigured vSphere Alarms 118
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Monitoring Solutions with the vCenter Solutions Manager 123
View Solutions and vServices 123
Monitoring Agents 124
Monitoring vServices 124
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