User goals and features

You can monitor the following features in your Citrix XenServer environment:

• Configure and monitor resource pools or standalone hosts (XenServers)
   You can configure resource pools or standalone hosts to monitor the performance of one or more of the following:
  • hosts
  • virtual machines
  • storage repositories
• Assess how your virtual and physical resources are being utilized in your virtual environment
   The monitor types and attributes enable you to determine the impact that resources assigned to your virtual machines have on your physical resources (XenServer hosts).
• Collect performance data
   When you add a host to the Citrix XenServer environment that is a part of a resource pool, you need to configure a performance data collection account for all the hosts in that resource pool to collect performance data. If that host is not part of any resource pool, you do not need to configure performance data collection for that host.
• Collect inventory data for the hosts, virtual machines, and storage repositories in the Citrix XenServer environment.