Monitoring VMware vSphere

The VMware vSphere monitoring profile helps you to monitor the following resources related to the VMware. Each of the resources in the following list is a monitor type that contains attributes. These attributes in turn monitor the performance of the various resources.

You can directly apply this monitoring profile so that the following monitor types are automatically configured.

• VMware-Guest-Disk-VSM_GUEST_DISKS
• VMware-Virtual-Machine-Snapshot-Container-VSM_VM_SNAPSHOT_CNTR
• VMware-Datastore-Cluster-VSM_STORAGE_POD
• VMware-Event-Filter-VSM_EVENTS
• VMware-Cluster-VSM_CLUSTER
• VMware-Disk-Performance-Virtual-Machine-Aggregate-VSM_DISK_VM_AGGR
• VMware-Distributed-Virtual-Switch-VSM_DVS
• VMware-Disk-Performance-VSM_DISK_PERF
• VMware-VM-Disk-Container-VSM_DISK_CNTR
• VMware-Host-CPU-VSM_CPU
• VMware-SCSI-Device-VSM_SCSI_LUN
• VMware-vSphere (See manual configuration details)
• VMware-Host-Virtual-Switch-VSM_VSWITCH
• VMware-Network-VSM_VNET_PERF
• VMware-HBA-VSM_HBA
• VMware-Datastore-Performance-VSM_DATASTORE_PERF
• VMware-Network-Virtual-Machine-Aggregate-VSM_VNET_VM_AGGR
• VMware-Host-VSM_HOST
• VMware-VM-Disk-VSM_DISK
• VMware-CPU-Container-VSM_CPU_CNTR
• VMware Datastore Cluster Aggregate
• VMware-Datastore-VSM_DATASTORE
• VMware Virtual Machine
• VMware-Memory-VSM_MEMORY_V2
• VMware-Virtual-App-VSM_VAPP
• VMware-Disk-Performance-Host-Aggregate-VSM_DISK_HOST_AGGR
• VMware-Cluster-VSM_CLUSTER
• VMware-VM-vMotion-VSM_VMOTION_VM
• VMware Datastore Host Aggregator
• VMware-Cluster-VSM_CLUSTER
• VMware Guset Disk Aggregate
• VMware Virtual Machine Datastore Performance
• VMware-VM-CPU-VSM_CPU_VM
• VMware-Host-vMotion-VSM_VMOTION_HOST
• VMware Disk Performance Cluster Aggregate
• VMware-vCenter-VSM_VC
• VMware-Virtual-Machine-Snapshot-VSM_VM_SNAPSHOT
• VMware-Network-Cluster-Aggregate-VSM_NET_CLUSTER_AGGR
• VMware-Network-Host-Aggregate-VSM_PNET_HOST_AGGR
• VMware-Resource-Pool-VSM_RESOURCE_POOL

You can manually configure the following monitor types:

• VMware-vSphere