Hosts page in the vSphere Infrastructure view

The Hosts page in the vSphere Infrastructure view shows details for all hosts.

To access the page, in the TrueSight console navigation pane, click Capacity Views > Virtualization > vSphere > Infrastructure, and in the vSphere Infrastructure page, click the Hosts tab.

The data in the page is categorized based on different subsystems and grouped under separate tabs. Click a tab to view the metrics for that subsystem:

Capacity
Other

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vSphere views

vSphere Infrastructure view

Metrics collected by VMware ETLs

Metrics per host are displayed in a tabular format.

By default, some columns are hidden. You can show or hide columns using the action menuthat is located next to the table title.

This topic contains the following sections:

Capacity page

Capacity metrics are displayed in the Capacity page. The Capacity tab is displayed by default, each time you access the Hosts page.

Each row corresponds to a vSphere host and displays the following metrics.

Column	Description	Statistical Type	Metrics
Host	Name of the vSphere host	Last value	NAME
Cluster	Name of the cluster to which the vSphere host belongs.	Last value	Relationship VHC_CONTAINS_VH is used to get the NAME of the cluster
Data Center	Name of the data center on which the vSphere host resides.	Last value	Relationships VHC_CONTAINS_VH and DC_CONTAINS_VHC are used to get the NAME of the data center
vCenter	Name of the vCenter on which the vSphere host is configured.	Last value	Relationship VHC_CONTAINS_VH is used to get VIRTUALCENTER_NAME
CPU [MHz]	Total CPU capacity allocated to the vSphere host, measured in megahertz.	Last value	CPU_MHZ
CPU [Cores]	Total number of physical CPU cores in the vSphere host	Last Value	CPU_NUM
Unused Cores	Total number of unused CPU cores in the vSphere host.	95th percentile	Computed using CPU_UTILMHZ and CPU_MHZ
Total Spec Rating	The total SPEC benchmark performance rating of the vSphere host, based on the CPU model and number of CPU cores.	Last value	BYBENCHMARK_VALUE[SPECINTRATE2006]
Unused Spec Rating	The total unused SPEC benchmark performance rating of the vSphere host, based on CPU utilization and the total SPEC rating.	95th percentile	Computed using CPU_UTIL and BYBENCHMARK_VALUE[SPECINTRATE2006]
CPU Util [%]	Percentage of CPU capacity utilized by the vSphere host.	95th percentile	CPU_UTIL
CPU Pressure¹	A value between 0 and 100, calculated using CPU utilization and CPU ready time. This value must always be greater than or equal to CPU Utilization %. If this is much higher than CPU Utilization %, then it indicates that some VMs in the cluster are starved for CPU (high CPU ready time). See Virtual Machine view > Watchlist page in the vSphere Virtual Machines view to identify them. For more information, see Computation details for VMware metrics.	95th percentile	IND_CPU_PRESSURE
CPU Trend [MHz]	Daily growth rate of CPU utilization of the vSphere host, measured in Megahertz/day.	Trend	Computed based on CPU_UTILMHZ
vCPUs	Total number of virtual CPUs configured for the host	Last value	VCPU_NUM
vCPU Density	Total number of vCPUs per physical core (ratio of virtual CPUs over physical CPU cores), in the vSphere host.	Last value	Computed using CPU_NUM and SUM(VM.CPU_NUM)
Total Memory [GB]	Total amount of memory allocated to the vSphere host, measured in Gigabytes.	Last value	TOTAL_REAL_MEM
Unused Memory [GB]	Unused memory available to the vSphere host.	Computed metric – based on 95th percentile	Computed using MEM_CONSUMED and TOTAL_REAL_MEM
Memory Util [%]	Percentage of total memory used by the vSphere host.	95th percentile	MEM_UTIL
Composite Memory Util [%]¹	An estimate of the amount of memory that is effectively in use in the host or cluster, expressed in percentage; it is computed using the memory pressure indicator. This value is lower than Memory Utilization due to the lower impact of other memory demand parameters, like ballooning and swapping. For more information, see Computation details for VMware metrics.	95th percentile	IND_COMPOSITE_MEMORY_UTILIZATION
Memory Trend [MB]	Daily growth rate of memory consumption of the vSphere host per the current trend, measured in Megabytes/day.	Trend	Computed using MEM_CONSUMED
Memory Over-commitment [%]¹	Percentage of memory allocated to the vSphere host above the total available physical memory.	Computed metric, based on Last value	Computed using TOTAL_REAL_MEM and SUM(VM.TOTAL_REAL_MEM)
Datastore Total Capacity [GB]	Total storage capacity of the vSphere datastore, measured in Gigabytes/day.	Last value	TOTAL_DSTORE_SIZE
Datastore Provisioned Capacity [GB]	Total storage capacity provisioned for the vSphere datastore, measured in Gigabytes.	Last value	TOTAL_DSTORE_PROVISIONED
Datastore Util [%]	Percentage of total datastore space utilized by the vSphere cluster.	95th percentile	TOTAL_DSTORE_UTIL
Datastore Trend [GB]	Daily growth rate of datastore utilization by the vSphere cluster per the current trend, measured in Gigabytes/day.	Not applicable	Computed based on TOTAL_DSTORE_USED

¹ - The metric value is incomplete if you have explicitly excluded (blacklisted) or included (whitelisted) virtual machines or hosts while configuring the VMware vCenter Extractor ETL.

Metric details of CPU and Memory resources are displayed in the Other page. Click the Other tab to view the details.

Each row corresponds to a vSphere host and displays the following metrics.

Column	Description	Statistical Type	Metrics
Host	Name of the vSphere host	Last value	NAME
Cluster	Name of the cluster to which the vSphere host belongs.	Last value	Relationship VHC_CONTAINS_VH is used to get the NAME of the cluster
Data Center	Name of the data center on which the vSphere host resides.	Last value	Relationships VHC_CONTAINS_VH and DC_CONTAINS_VHC are used to get the NAME of the data center
vCenter	Name of the vCenter on which the vSphere host is configured.	Last value	Relationship VHC_CONTAINS_VH is used to get VIRTUALCENTER_NAME
CPU Util Optimized [%]	The effective CPU utilization metric for hosts that takes into account hyper-threading and power saving.	95th percentile	CPU_UTIL_OPTIMIZED
CPU Demand [GHz]	The amount of CPU resources a VM would use if there were no CPU contention or CPU limit.	95th percentile	CPU_DEMAND
Memory Consumed [GB]	Total memory consumed by the vSphere host.	95th percentile	MEM_CONSUMED
Memory Active [GB]	The amount of memory that is actively used, as estimated by VMkernel. For a host, it is the sum of all active metrics for all powered-on virtual machines plus vSphere services (such as COS, vpxa) on the host.	95th percentile	MEM_ACTIVE
Memory Ballooning [GB]	The percentage of guest physical memory that has been reclaimed from the virtual machine for this vSphere host.	95th percentile	MEM_BALLOONING
Memory Shared [GB]	Shows the amount of memory, in Gigabytes, that is shared through transparent page sharing, either within a host or with other hosts running on the same server.	95th percentile	MEM_SHARED
Memory Overhead [GB]	The space reserved for the host frame buffer and other virtualization data structures, such as shadow page tables. This memory depends on the number of virtual CPUs and the configured memory for the guest operating system.	95th percentile	MEM_OVERHEAD
Memory Swap In Rate [KB/s]	The rate at which memory is swapped from the disk into active memory during a given interval.	95th percentile	MEM_SWAP_IN_BYTE_RATE
Memory Swap Out Rate [KB/s]	The amount of memory swapped-out to disk. For a host, it is the sum of swapout metrics from all powered-on virtual machines on the host.	95th percentile	MEM_SWAP_OUT_BYTE_RATE
Network Rate [Mbit/s]	The average rate of data sent and received by the vSphere host, measured in Megabits/second.	95th percentile	NET_BIT_RATE
Disk I/O Rate [MB/s]	Average disk input/output rate, measured in Megabytes per second.	95th percentile	DISK_TRANSFER_RATE
Total Spec Rating	The total SPEC benchmark performance rating of the vSphere host, based on the CPU model and number of CPU cores.	Last value	BYBENCHMARK_VALUE[SPECINTRATE2006]
Unused Spec Rating	The total unused SPEC benchmark performance rating of the vSphere host, based on CPU utilization and the total SPEC rating.	95th percentile	Computed using CPU_UTIL and BYBENCHMARK_VALUE[SPECINTRATE2006
Datastores misconfigured	Displays TRUE if misconfigured datastores are identified, FALSE if they are not misconfigured.	Last value	IF (CLUSTER_DSTORE_COUNT = HOST_DSTORE_COUNT), then Datastores misconfigured = 'FALSE' IF (CLUSTER_DSTORE_COUNT > HOST_DSTORE_COUNT), then Datastores misconfigured = 'TRUE'

To view details for a particular vSphere host

To view the details page for a particular vSphere host, click its (hyper-linked) name under the Host column. You can use the sorting and filtering options on the page to find a specific host.

For more information, see Sorting tables in views on TrueSight console and Using filtering options in views on the TrueSight console.

The Host details page displays information under the following sections or panels:

Section or Panel	Description
Summary page	A quick graphical summary of the CPU and memory utilization, and disk I/O and network rate for a selected host. Core metrics for the selected entity are displayed as analysis charts, depending on available data. At the bottom of each chart is a link that takes you to the Data Explorer view for the specific resource type, and displays charts and information for a larger set of metrics. The data displayed in Data Explorer view charts for any resource part of this view category, is based on the time filter that is applied to the primary view in this tab. You can select Advanced time periods (other than default/basic) from the Data Explorer view for the selected resource, to view charts over a different time resolution. For more information, see Cluster page in the vSphere Data Explorer view.
Configuration Details page	Configuration information about the host.
Related Information panel	Links to detailed pages for thresholds and VM details. For more information, see Viewing related information.
Recommendations panel	All available recommendations for the host. For more information, see Recommendations page in the vSphere Infrastructure view.
Tags panel	List of tags that are associated with the cluster. You can assign or remove tags by using the Edit Tags option from the Tags action menu.

To view related information

The Related Information panel located at the top of the view, next to the Recommendations panel in the page contains the following links:

Link	Description
Thresholds	Opens the Thresholds page in the TrueSight Capacity Optimization console. Using the Thresholds page, you can view and manage threshold settings for the selected vSphere cluster. For more information, see Adding and viewing thresholds.
VM details	Opens the All VMs page in the vSphere Virtual Machines view that displays information about all the VMs for the selected host.

To find a specific host

Use the sorting and filtering options on the page to find a specific host.