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Monitor VMware Entities
You can monitor the entities for the VMware vCenter managed virtual machines by integrating with the Cloud Observability Platform. To integrate, see VMware vCenter Integration.
The following VMware entities are displayed under the Hybrid Cloud Services domain:
Datastores
The Datastores page acts as a status page for real-time and historical data on the performance of VMware datastores.
Cisco Cloud Observability monitors the health status, attributes, metrics, and relationships of each datastore. It provides metrics that the vCenter Collector derives from examining your backend targets.
You can use Datastores to:
- Determine if there are any issues relating to overall cluster capacity and resource usage.
- Gain insight into application issues that affect services running inside the vCenter.
- Diagnose issues that are affecting the scalability of services.
Detail View
Clicking a Datastore Name displays the detail view that includes metrics and properties (attributes) of the datastore you select. You can also view the related entities in the relationship panel (left panel).
Metrics
Cisco Cloud Observability displays the following metrics for vCenters list and detail views:
| Display Name | Description |
|---|---|
Health | The health of the corresponding datastore. |
Datastore | The name of the datastore. |
vCluster | The name of the cluster. |
Disk Usage | The amount of space in the datastore. |
Disk Utilization | The utilization of the datastore. |
Logs | The log details of the selected datastore. |
The Properties panel shows the following metadata:
- Hostname
- Datastore
- vcluster
- Disk Usage
- Disk Utilization
Hosts
The Hosts page acts as a status page for real-time and historical data on the performance of VMware Hosts.
Cisco Cloud Observability monitors the health status, attributes, metrics, and relationships of each VMware host. It provides metrics that the vCenter Collector derives from examining your backend targets.
You can use Hosts to:
- Determine if there are any issues relating to overall cluster capacity and resource usage.
- Gain insight into application issues that affect services running inside the vCenter.
- Diagnose issues that are affecting the scalability of services.
Detail View
Clicking a Host Name displays the detail view that includes metrics and properties (attributes) of the host you select. You can also view the related entities in the relationship pane (left pane).
Metrics
Cisco Cloud Observability displays the following metrics for Hosts list and detail views:
| Display Name | Description |
|---|---|
Health | The health of the corresponding datastore. |
Host Name | The name of the cluster. |
Host CPU Utilization | The CPU utilization of the host system. |
| Host CPU Usage | The amount of CPU used by the host. |
| Average Disk Throughput | Average number of kilobytes read from or written to the disk each second. |
| Average Disk Latency | The latency of operations to the host system's disk. |
| Max Host Disk Latency | Highest latency value across all disks used by the host. |
| Host Memory Utilization | The percentage of the host system's memory capacity that is being utilized. |
| Host Memory Usage | The amount of memory the host system is using. |
| Host Network Throughput | The amount of data that was transmitted or received over the network by the host. |
| Host Network Usage | The sum of the data transmitted and received for all the NIC instances of the host. |
| Host Network Packet Errors | The summation of packet errors on the host network. |
| Host Network Packet Count | The number of packets transmitted and received, as measured over the most recent 20s interval. |
The Properties panel shows the following metadata:
ESX Name
CPU
- Memory
Disk
Network
VCluster
The Clusters page acts as a status page for real-time and historical data on the performance of VMware clusters.
Cisco Cloud Observability monitors the health status, attributes, metrics, and relationships of each cluster. It provides metrics that the vCenter Collector derives from examining your backend targets.
You can use Vclusters to:
- Determine if there are any issues relating to overall cluster capacity and resource usage.
- Gain insight into application issues that affect services running inside the vcluster.
- Diagnose issues that are affecting the scalability of services.
Detail View
Clicking a Cluster Name displays the detail view that includes metrics and properties (attributes) of the cluster you select. You can also view the related entities on the relationship panel (left panel).
Metrics
Cisco Cloud Observability displays the following metrics for Vclusters list and detail views:
| Display Name | Description |
|---|---|
Health | The health of the corresponding cluster. |
Cluster Name | The name of the vCenter Cluster. |
Available CPU Limit | The amount of CPU available to the cluster. |
Available Effective CPU | The effective CPU available to the cluster. This value excludes CPU from hosts in maintenance mode or are unresponsive |
Available Memory Limit | The available memory of the cluster |
Available Effective Memory | The effective memory of the cluster. This value excludes memory from hosts in maintenance mode or are unresponsive. |
Cluster Used Memory | The memory that is currently used by the cluster. |
VM Count | the number of virtual machines in the cluster. |
Hosts Count | The number of hosts in the cluster. |
The Properties panel shows limited metadata such as Cluster Name and Health of the cluster.
Vms
The Vms page acts as a status page for real-time and historical data on the performance of VMware Virtual Machines (VM).
Cisco Cloud Observability monitors the health status, attributes, metrics, and relationships of each VMware VM. It provides metrics that the vCenter Collector derives from examining your backend targets.
You can use Vms to:
- Determine if there are any issues relating to overall cluster capacity and resource usage.
- Gain insight into application issues that affect services running inside the machines.
- Diagnose issues that are affecting the scalability of services.
Detail View
Clicking a VM Name displays the detail view that includes metrics and properties (attributes) of the VM you select. You can also view the related entities in the relationship panel (left panel).
Metrics
Cisco Cloud Observability displays the following metrics for Hosts list and detail views:
| Display Name | Description |
|---|---|
Health | The health of the corresponding datastore. |
VM Name | The name of the cluster. |
ESX Name | The name of the ESX server used by the corresponding VM. |
| VM Ballooned Memory | The amount of memory that is ballooned due to virtualization. |
| VM Memory Usage | The amount of memory that is used by the virtual machine. |
| VM Swapped Memory | The portion of memory that is granted to this VM from the host's swap space. |
| VM Swapped SSD Memory | The amount of memory swapped to fast disk device such as SSD. |
| VM Disk Usage | The amount of storage space used by the virtual machine. |
| VM Disk Utilization | The utilization of storage on the virtual machine. |
| Average Disk Latency | The latency of operations to the virtual machine's disk. |
| Max Disk Latency | The highest reported total latency (device and kernel times) over an interval of 20 seconds. |
| VM Disk Throughput | The throughput of the virtual machine's disk. |
| VM Network Throughput | The amount of data that was transmitted or received over the network of the virtual machine. |
| VM Network Packet Count | The amount of packets that was received or transmitted over the instance's network. |
| VM Network Usage | The network utilization combined transmit and receive rates during an interval. |
| VM CPU Utilization | The CPU utilization of the VM. |
| VM CPU Usage | The amount of CPU used by the VM. |
| VM Memory Utilization | The memory utilization of the VM. |
The Properties panel shows the following metadata:
Hostname
Type
ESX Name
- CPU
- Memory
Disk
Network