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VM Performance Monitors
The VM performance monitors allow you to monitor and alert on specific VM-related components: datacenters, clusters, resources pools, and vApps (VMware only); and VM hosts, instances, and snapshots.
The metrics collected through VM servers can be used by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor through Sync or vSync, and subsequently used to trigger Uptime Infrastructure Monitor’s own alerts and actions, allowing you to integrate both your virtual-managed and non-virtual resources.
These performance monitors can answer questions such as the following:
- Is the CPU usage of VMs in a vApp, resource pool, cluster, or datacenter passing an acceptable level?
- Is the memory consumed by VMs in a vApp, resource pool, cluster, or datacenter passing an acceptable level?
- Is the number of ESX servers that are a part of the cluster or datacenter exceeding an acceptable number and threatening performance?
Datacenter and Cluster Performance (VMware only)
The Datacenter Performance and Cluster Performance monitors can trigger alerts on metrics collected through vSync.
Datacenter Performance and Cluster Performance Monitor Metrics
The following VM metric types for datacenter or cluster performance can be used to configure thresholds in Uptime Infrastructure Monitor:
Time Interval | A positive integer indicating the number of minutes’ worth of performance data samples to average, then compare against threshold definitions (default: 30). | |
Number of Running VMs: | Warning- and critical-level thresholds can be set, using positive integers, for the average number of VMs powered on during the time interval. | |
Number of Running Hosts: | Warning- and critical-level thresholds can be set, using positive integers, for the average number of vSphere ESX servers powered on during the time interval. | |
CPU Consumed: | Warning- and critical-level thresholds can be set, using positive integers, for the total percentage of CPU cycles consumed by VMs belonging to this datacenter or cluster. | |
Memory Consumed: | Warning- and critical-level thresholds can be set, using positive integers, for the total percentage of memory consumed by VMs belonging to this datacenter or cluster. |
Configuring Datacenter Performance or Cluster Performance Monitors
To configure a Datacenter Performance or Cluster Performance monitor, do the following:
- On the Infrastructure tree, click Add Service Monitor.
- In the VM Monitors section, click the name of the monitor you want to configure, and then click Continue.
- Complete the monitor information fields.
See Monitor Identification for more information on configuring service monitor information fields. - In the Cluster Performance Settings or Datacenter Performance Settings section, configure the monitor’s warning- and critical-level threshold values:
- Time Interval
- Number of Running VMs
- Number of Running Hosts
- CPU Consumed
- Memory Consumed
For more information about setting thresholds and response time, see Configuring Warning and Critical Thresholds. - Complete the following settings:
- Timing Settings (see Adding Monitor Timing Settings Information for more information)
- Alert Settings (see Monitor Alert Settings for more information)
- Monitoring Period settings (see Monitor Timing Settings for more information)
- Alert Profile settings (see Alert Profiles for more information)
- Action Profile settings (see Action Profiles for more information)
- Click Finish.
Resource Pool and vApp Performance (VMware only)
The Resource Pool Performance and vApp Performance monitors can trigger alerts on metrics collected through vSync.
Resource Pool Performance and vApp Performance Monitor Metrics
The following VM metric types for resource pool and vApp performance can be used to configure thresholds in Uptime Infrastructure Monitor :
Time Interval | A positive integer indicating the number of minutes’ worth of performance data samples to average, then compare against threshold definitions (default: 30). | |
Number of Running VMs: | Warning- and critical-level thresholds can be set, using positive integers, for the average number of VMs powered on during the time interval. | |
CPU Consumed: | Warning- and critical-level thresholds can be set, using positive integers, for the total percentage of CPU cycles consumed by VMs belonging to this resource pool or vApp. | |
Memory Consumed: | Warning- and critical-level thresholds can be set, using positive integers, for the total percentage of memory consumed by VMs belonging to this resource pool or vApp. |
Configuring Resource Pool Performance or vApp Performance Monitors
To configure a Resource Pool Performance or vApp Performance monitor, do the following:
- On the Infrastructure tree, click Add Service Monitor.
- In the VM Monitors section, click the name of the monitor you want to configure, and then click Continue.
- Complete the monitor information fields.
See Monitor Identification for more information on configuring service monitor information fields. - In the Resource Pool Performance Settings or vApp Performance Settings section, configure the monitor’s warning- and critical-level threshold values:
- Time Interval
- Number of Running VMs
- CPU Consumed
- Memory Consumed
For more information on these metrics, see Resource Pool Performance and vApp Performance Monitor Metrics.
For more information about setting thresholds and response time, see Configuring Warning and Critical Thresholds.
- Complete the following settings:
- Timing Settings (see Adding Monitor Timing Settings Information for more information)
- Alert Settings (see Monitor Alert Settings for more information)
- Monitoring Period settings (see Monitor Timing Settings for more information)
- Alert Profile settings (see Alert Profiles for more information)
- Action Profile settings (see Action Profiles for more information)
- Click Finish.
VM Performance
The VM Host Performance Check , and VM Instance Performance, VM Instance Power State, and VM Snapshot Performance Check monitors can trigger alerts on metrics collected through Sync or vSync.
VM Host Performance Check Monitor and VM Instance Performance Monitor Metrics
The following VM metric types for VM host and instance performance can be used to configure thresholds in Uptime Infrastructure Monitor:
Time Interval | A positive integer indicating the number of minutes' worth of data samples to average, then compare against threshold definitions (default: 15). | |||
CPU Value | Warning- and critical-level thresholds can be set, using positive integers, for a specific CPU-related value pertaining to a VM host or instance:
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Memory Value | Warning- and critical-level thresholds can be set, using positive integers, for a specific memory-related value pertaining to a VM host or instance:
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Swap Value | Warning- and critical-level thresholds can be set, using positive integers, for a swap-related value:
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Disk Device I/O Value | Warning- and critical-level thresholds can be set, using positive integers, for the aggregate disk I/O rate for the VM.
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Disk Device Errors Check (VM Host Performance Check) | Warning- and critical-level thresholds can be set, using positive integers, for the aggregate error rate.
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Network I/O Value | Warning- and critical-level thresholds can be set, using positive integers, for the aggregate received and transmitted rate, in KBps.
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Network Errors Check (VM Host Performance Check) | Warning- and critical-level thresholds can be set, using positive integers, for the aggregate error rate.
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Configuring VM Host Performance Check and VM Instance Performance Monitors
To configure a VM Host Performance Check or VM Instance Performance monitor, do the following:
- On the Infrastructure tree, click Add Service Monitor.
- In the VM Monitors section, click the name of the monitor you want to configure, and then click Continue.
- Complete the monitor information fields.
See Monitor Identification for more information on configuring service monitor information fields.
In the VM Host/Instance Performance Settings section, configure the monitor's warning- and critical-level threshold values:- Time Interval
- CPU Check
- Memory Check
- Swap check
- Disk I/O Check
- Disk Device I/O Check (VM Host Performance Check)
- Disk Device Errors Check (VM Host Performance Check)
- Network I/O Check
- Network Errors Check (VM Host Performance Check)
For more information on these metrics, see VM Host Performance Check Monitor and VM Instance Performance Monitor Metrics.
For more information about setting thresholds and response time, see Configuring Warning and Critical Thresholds.
- Complete the following settings:
- Timing Settings (see Adding Monitor Timing Settings Information for more information)
- Alert Settings (see Monitor Alert Settings for more information)
- Monitoring Period settings (see Monitor Timing Settings for more information)
- Alert Profile settings (see Alert Profiles for more information)
- Action Profile settings (see Action Profiles for more information)
- Click Finish.
VM Snapshot Performance Check Monitor Metrics
Configuring VM Snapshot Performance Check Monitor
To configure a VM Snapshot Performance Check monitor, do the following:
- On the Infrastructure tree, click Add Service Monitor.
- In the VM Monitors section, click the name of the monitor you want to configure, and then click Continue.
- Complete the monitor information fields.
See Monitor Identification for more information on configuring service monitor information fields.
In the VM Snapshot Performance Check Settings section, configure the monitor's warning- and critical-level threshold values:- Age Unit
- Age Warning (more than)
- Age Critical (more than)
- Size Warning (greater than)
- Size Critical (greater than)
For more information on these metrics, see VM Snapshot Performance Check Monitor Metrics.
For more information about setting thresholds and response time, see Configuring Warning and Critical Thresholds.
- Complete the following settings:
- Timing Settings (see Adding Monitor Timing Settings Information for more information)
- Alert Settings (see Monitor Alert Settings for more information)
- Monitoring Period settings (see Monitor Timing Settings for more information)
- Alert Profile settings (see Alert Profiles for more information)
- Action Profile settings (see Action Profiles for more information)
- Click Finish.
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