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Overview
By generating graphs, you can display performance and usage statistics for Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Elements. Generating graphs helps you diagnose problems through root-cause analysis, as well as review the overall health and performance of monitored Elements. With vSync (VMware) and Sync (Hyper-V), you can generate graphs for virtual server components that are monitored by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor, allowing you to diagnose and review all components of your infrastructure—whether virtual assets or physical ones—from the same view.
When viewing the Graphing tab for any virtual component, you see different graphing options depending on the type of object, or in the case of VMs, the operating system that is running.
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Virtual Machine Management Graphs
Uptime Infrastructure Monitor uses the following graphs to track and manage VMs:
Instance Motion
The Instance Motion tool enables you to move instances from one server to another without any downtime or loss of data. For example, you might move an instance to newer and faster hardware, or to temporarily relocate the instance while performing a hardware upgrade.
The Instance Motion graph enables you to keep track of a moving virtual instance. For a given instance, the graph charts which systems it is running on over a given time range.
This graph can be generated when you are viewing a VMware vCenter server, Hyper-V host server, ESX server, or a VM; the topological level at which you begin to configure the graph determines which instances are available to graph.
Generating an Instance Motion Graph
To generate an Instance Motion graph, do the following:
- Go to the Element’s Quick Snapshot page.
For example, in the Infrastructure panel, find the Element whose VM instance motion you want to graph, click its corresponding gear icon, and then click Graph Performance. - In the Metrics section of the Tree panel, click Instance Motion.
- Select and apply the start and end dates and times for which the graph charts data. For more information about these fields, see Understanding Dates and Times.
- From the drop-down menu, select a VM.
- Click Generate Graph.
Power Consumption
To assist virtualization initiatives that are meant to save power costs, or to gauge the efficiency of existing virtual datacenters, power usage by watts is available as a graphing metric.
The Power Consumption graph can tell you how much power your hosts are consuming by datacenter, cluster, or individual server. Additionally, you can graph the power usage of individual VMs.
You can graph power usage levels at the VMware vCenter level in order to assess current load distribution, or verify VMware’s automated distributive resource balancing is functioning.
Graphing Power Consumption for a VMware vCenter Server
To generate a power consumption graph for a vCenter server, do the following:
- Go to the Element’s Quick Snapshot page.
For example, in the Infrastructure panel, find the Element whose power consumption you want to graph, click its corresponding gear icon, and then click Graph Performance. - In the Metrics section of the Tree panel, click Power Consumption.
- Select and apply the start and end dates and times for which the graph charts data. For more information about these fields, see Understanding Dates and Times.
- Select the logical group whose power consumption you want to graph.
- Select whether to graph the highest resource consumers, or specific components. If you select Specific, an Element selection dialog appears, requiring you to build a list.
- Click Generate Graph.
A pop-up window appears, displaying the power consumption graph you have configured.
Graphing Power Consumption for a Hyper-V Host or ESX Server
To generate a power consumption graph for an ESX server, do the following:
- Go to the Element’s Quick Snapshot page.
For example, in the Infrastructure panel, find the Element whose power consumption you want to graph, click its corresponding gear icon, and then click Graph Performance. - In the Metrics section of the Tree panel, click Power Consumption.
- Select and apply the start and end dates and times for which the graph charts data. For more information about these fields, see Understanding Dates and Times.
- Click Generate Graph.
A pop-up window appears, displaying the power consumption of the ESX server over the specified time period.
Power States
Power States graphs allow you to graph VM activity on a host server, or ESX activity on a VMware vCenter server.
The power state graphs help you manage both available computing resources within your VMware vSphere clusters and datacenters, as well as power consumption in your physical datacenters.
Virtual Element Power States
The following states are displayed in a Power States graph:
vCenter Server Metrics | ||
VMs Powered On | the virtual machine is powered on | |
ESX Powered On | the host is powered on | |
ESX Powered Off | the host was powered off by an administrator through the VMware vSphere Client | |
ESX Unknown | as is the case in the VMware vSphere Client, a host that is in an unknown state is assumed to be powered off by an administrator | |
ESX In Maintenance | the host was put in maintenance mode by an administrator | |
ESX In Standby | the host was put in standby mode either explicitly by an administrator, or automatically by vSphere Distributed Power Management (DPM) | |
Hyper-V Host and ESX Server Metrics | ||
VMs Powered On | the virtual machine is powered on | |
VMs Powered Off | the virtual machine is powered off | |
VMs Suspended | the virtual machine is not running, but a snapshot of its running applications and processes is retained. | |
Graphing Power States for a vCenter Server
To generate a Power States graph, do the following:
- Go to the Element’s Quick Snapshot page.
For example, in the Infrastructure panel, find the Element whose power states you want to graph, click its corresponding gear icon, and then click Graph Performance. - In the Metrics section of the Tree panel, click Power States.
- Select and apply the start and end dates and times for which the graph charts data. For more information about these fields, see Understanding Dates and Times.
- Click one of the Quick Graphs options to display a pre-configured graph in a pop-up window, or skip this step to manually configure a graph.
- In the first step, select whether to graph power states by datacenter or cluster.
- In the next step, select whether to graph the highest resource consumers, or specific VMware vSphere components. If you select Specific, an Element selection dialog appears, requiring you to build a list.
- Select the power states you want to include in the graph.
- Click Generate Graph.
A pop-up window appears, displaying the CPU Wait and Ready Time graph you have configured.
Graphing VM Power States for a Hyper-V Host or ESX Server
To generate a power status graph for a Hyper-V host or ESX server VMs, do the following:
- Go to the Element’s Quick Snapshot page.
For example, in the Infrastructure panel, find the Element whose power states you want to graph, click its corresponding gear icon, and then click Graph Performance. - In the Metrics section of the Tree panel, click Power States.
- Select and apply the start and end dates and times for which the graph charts data. For more information about these fields, see Understanding Dates and Times.
- Select the power states you want to include in the graph.
- Click Generate Graph.
A pop-up window appears, displaying the power states graph you have configured.