Watchlist page in the vSphere Virtual Machines view
The Watchlist page in the vSphere Virtual Machines view displays metrics of VMs that need more capacity or are displaying resource contention indicators.
To access the page, in the Views tab navigation pane, click Views > Virtualization > vSphere > Virtual Machines, and in the vSphere Virtual Machines page, click the Watchlist tab.
The metrics are categorized based on different profiles and are grouped under separate tabs. Click a tab to view the charts for that profile.
CPU Starved VMs page
The CPU starved VMs page displays metrics for VMs with high CPU ready values or with peak utilization over a threshold.
Each row in the CPU Starved VMs table corresponds to a VM and provides the following information:
CPU Starved VMs table
Field | Description | Statistical Type | Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|
VM | Name of the VM. | Last value | NAME |
| Network Name | Name of the network to which the VM belongs | Last value | HOST_NAME |
Host | Name of the host on which the VM resides | Last value | Host name retrieved using relationship VH_CONTAINS_GM |
Cluster | Name of the cluster on which the VM resides | Last value | Cluster name retrieved using relationship VHC_CONTAINS_GM |
vCenter | Name of the vCenter on which the VM resides | Last value | vCenter name from Cluster.VIRTUALCENTER_NAME using relationship VHC_CONTAINS_GM |
CPU [GHz] | Total CPU capacity of the VM, measured in Gigahertz | Last value | CPU_MHZ |
| vCPUs | Total number of virtual CPUs of the VM | Last value | CPU_NUM |
CPU Used [GHz] | Total CPU consumed by the VM, measured in Gigahertz | 95th percentile | CPU_UTILMHZ |
| CPU Util [%] | Total percentage of CPU consumed by the VM | 95th percentile | CPU_UTIL |
| Raw CPU Util [%] | Percentage of time the CPU was not idle during the interval. | 95th percentile | CPU_UTIL * CPU_NUM |
CPU Ready [%] | CPU Ready Time, that is, percentage of the time the VM was ready to dispatch work but there were no available CPUs. | 95th percentile | CPU_READY |
| Raw CPU Ready [%] | Percentage of time the CPU was in Ready state during the interval | 95th percentile | CPU_READY * CPU_NUM |
Memory Starved VM page
The Memory Starved VMs page displays VMs with high swapping or ballooning activity, or with peak utilization over a threshold.
Each row in the Memory Starved VMs table corresponds to a VM and provides the following information:
Field | Description | Statistical Type | Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|
VM | Name of the VM. | Last value | NAME |
| Network Name | Name of the network to which the VM belongs | Last value | HOST_NAME |
Host | Name of the host on which the VM resides | Last value | Host name retrieved using relationship VH_CONTAINS_GM |
Cluster | Name of the cluster on which the VM resides | Last value | Cluster name retrieved using relationship VHC_CONTAINS_GM |
vCenter | Name of the vCenter on which the VM resides | Last value | vCenter name from Cluster.VIRTUALCENTER_NAME using relationship VHC_CONTAINS_GM |
Memory Util [%] | Total percentage of active memory used by the VM | 95th percentile | MEM_UTIL |
Memory Ballooning [MB] | Amount of guest physical memory that is currently reclaimed from the virtual machine through ballooning, measured in Megabytes. | MAX | MEM_BALLOONING |
Memory Swap Out Rate [KB/s] | The rate at which memory is being swapped from active memory to disk during the current interval, measured in Kilobytes/second. This counter is useful to see if the virtual machine is running slow due to swapping. | MAX | MEM_SWAP_OUT_BYTE_RATE |
High Filesystem Usage VM page
The High Filesystem Usage VMs page displays VMs with either high utilization of the filesystem space, or with high use of provisioned space.
Each row in the High filesystem usage VMs table corresponds to a VM and provides the following information:
Field | Description | Statistical Type | Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|
VM | Name of the VM. | Last value | NAME |
| Network Name | Name of the network to which the VM belongs | Last value | HOST_NAME |
Host | Name of the host on which the VM resides | Last value | Host name retrieved using relationship VH_CONTAINS_GM |
Cluster | Name of the cluster on which the VM resides | Last value | Cluster name retrieved using relationship VHC_CONTAINS_GM |
| vCenter | Name of the vCenter on which the VM resides | Last value | vCenter name from Cluster.VIRTUALCENTER_NAME using relationship VHC_CONTAINS_GM |
File System [GB] | Total amount of file system space available to the VM, measured in Gigabytes | Last value | TOTAL_FS_SIZE |
File System Used [GB] | Total amount of file system space used by the VM, measured in Gigabytes | 95th percentile | TOTAL_FS_USED |
File System Used [%] | Total percentage of file system space used by the VM, normalized by the total file system space available to the VM. | 95th percentile | TOTAL_FS_UTIL |
High Latency VMs
The High Latency VMs page displays VMs exhibiting high latency based on factors such as read/write rates, disk transfer rates, and so on.
- By default, the metric tables in this view are filtered on all domains. Use the domain filter options to select the required domain from the table.
- By default, the summarization time range for all metrics is set to Last 30 days. Use the time filter options controls to select an alternate range.
For detailed information on how to use filters, see Filtering data displayed in Views.
Each row in the High Latency VMs table corresponds to a VM with high latency and displays the following metrics.
| Field | Description | Statistical Type | Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|
| VM | Name of the VM experiencing high latency. | Last value | NAME |
| Network Name | Name of the network the VM is on. | Last value | HOST_NAME |
| Host | Name of the host the VM belongs to. | Last value | Host name retrieved using relationship VH_CONTAINS_GM |
| Cluster | Name of the cluster the VM belongs to. | Last value | Cluster name retrieved using relationship VHC_CONTAINS_GM |
| vCenter | Name of the vCenter the VM belongs to. | Last value | vCenter name from Cluster.VIRTUALCENTER_NAME using relationship VHC_CONTAINS_GM |
| Write Rate [MB/sec] | Number of disk writes performed by the VM, measured in megabytes/second. | MAX | DISK_WRITE_RATE |
| Read Rate [MB/sec] | Number of disk reads performed by the VM, measured in megabytes/second. | MAX | DISK_READ_RATE |
| Disk Transfer Rate [MB/sec] | Total disk transfer rate, measured in megabytes/second. | MAX | DISK_TRANSFER_RATE |
| Disk Latency [millis] | The overall latency time of the configured disks, measured in milliseconds. | MAX | DISK_TOTAL_LATENCY |
Detailed information about a particular VM
To view the details page for a specific VM, click its name under the VM column. You can use the sorting and filtering options on the page to find a specific cluster.
The VM details page displays information for the selected VM under the following sections or panels:
| Section or Panel | Description |
|---|---|
| Summary page | A quick graphical summary of the CPU and memory utilization, and network bit rate and disk transfer rate for the VM. 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 other time filter options to view charts over a different time resolution For more information, see Virtual Machine page in the vSphere Data Explorer view. |
| Configuration Details page | Configuration information about the cluster. |
| Related Information panel | Links to detailed pages for thresholds. |
| Recommendations panel | All available recommendations for the VM. For more information, see Recommendations page in the vSphere Virtual Machines view. If the virtual node data is available, the forecasted saturation for memory is computed based on the virtual node memory utilization. Otherwise, it is computed using MEM_ACTIVE of the virtual machine. When using MEM_ACTIVE, the vSphere VM Active Memory increase factor is applied to increase the MEM_ACTIVE metric value. You can configure the value of this vSphere VM Active Memory increase factor. For details, see Configuring and managing thresholds for metrics and indicators. |
| Tags panel | List of tags that are associated with the VM. You can assign or remove tags by using the Edit Tags option from the Tags action menu. |
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