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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
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Monitoring the Health of Services and Nodes 125
View the Health Status of Services and Nodes 125
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Performance Monitoring Utilities: resxtop and esxtop 127
Using the esxtop Utility 127
Using the resxtop Utility 128
Using esxtop or resxtop in Interactive Mode 128
Using Batch Mode 142
Using Replay Mode 143
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Using the vimtop Plug-In to Monitor the Resource Usage of Services 145
Monitor Services by Using vimtop in Interactive Mode 145
Interactive Mode Command-Line Options 145
Interactive Mode Single-Key Commands for vimtop 146
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Monitoring Networked Devices with SNMP and vSphere 149
Using SNMP Traps with vCenter Server 149
Configure SNMP for ESXi 150
SNMP Diagnostics 159
Monitor Guest Operating Systems with SNMP 159
VMware MIB Files 160
SNMPv2 Diagnostic Counters 161
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System Log Files 163
View System Log Entries 163
View System Logs on an ESXi Host 163
External System Logs 164
Export System Log Files 164
Managing ESXi Log Files 165
Configure Syslog on ESXi Hosts 166
Configuring Logging Levels for the Guest Operating System 167
Collecting Log Files 168
Viewing Log Files with the Log Browser 171
Index 175
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