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VMware ESX/ESXi/vSphere monitoring and management plugin
Verax NMS VMware ESX/ESXi/vSphere management plugin enables easy monitoring, alerting, health check, management and performance reporting for VMware ESX/ESXi and vSphere servers. Supported versions include 3.5, 4.x and higher.
Inventory and configuration
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- Visualization of hierarchical vCenter structure: data center, computing resources, hosts, data stores and virtual machines (VMs).
- Detailed inventory and configuration information about each vCenter element.
- Detailed vCenter statistics: number of virtual machines, data stores, CPU loads, datastore usages and others.
- Detailed statistics per each VM such as: power status, uptime CPU usage, memory usage and others.
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Health sensors
The plugin offers predefined, built-in health sensors for instant health checking of virtualization infrastructure elements such as: CPUs, software components and others.
Management actions
The plugin offers virtual machine management actions such as shutdown or start, that can be used in conjunction with NMS business rules in order to create IT automation scenarios. For instance: when a web service running on an Apache Tomcat instance within a virtual machine stops responding, restart the entire machine.
Sensors, counters and alarms
The plugin contains predefined templates for most commonly monitored items (e.g. threads, CPU, memory, applications and others) with default sensors and counters compatible with the vSphere client. Most important, selected templates are provided in the table below (other, additional sensors and performance counters can be added by the user):
| CPU |
| VMware CPU usage as a percentage during the interval |
| VMware Total CPU capacity reserved by virtual machines |
| VMware Total CPU usage |
| VMware Total time that the CPU spent in an idle state |
| VMware CPU utilization as a percentage during the interval |
| VMware CPU utilization of the corresponding core |
| VMware Total CPU capacity reserved by and available for virtual machines |
| Datastore |
| VMware Average number of read commands issued per second to the datastore during the collection interval |
| VMware Average number of write commands issued per second to the datastore during the collection interval |
| VMware Rate of reading data from the datastore |
| VMware Rate of writing data to the datastore |
| VMware The average time a read from the datastore takes |
| VMware The average time a write to the datastore takes |
| VMware Storage I/O Control size-normalized I/O latency |
| VMware Storage I/O Control aggregated IOPS |
| Disk |
| VMware Average amount of time taken during the collection interval to process a SCSI command issued by the Guest OS to the virtual machine |
| VMware Average amount of time spent in the VMkernel queue, per SCSI command, during the collection interval |
| VMware Highest latency value across all disks used by the host |
| VMware Maximum queue depth |
| VMware Average number of disk reads per second during the collection interval |
| VMware Average number of disk writes per second during the collection interval |
| VMware Average number of SCSI commands issued per second during the collection interval |
| VMware Aggregated disk I/O rate. For hosts, this metric includes the rates for all virtual machines running on the host during the collection interval. |
| VMware Number of disk reads during the collection interval |
| VMware Number of disk writes during the collection interval |
| VMware Average number of kilobytes read from the disk each second during the collection interval |
| VMware Average number of kilobytes written to disk each second during the collection interval |
| VMware Number of SCSI commands issued during the collection interval |
| VMware Number of SCSI commands aborted during the collection interval |
| VMware Number of SCSI-bus reset commands issued during the collection interval |
| VMware Average amount of time, in milliseconds, to complete read from the physical device |
| VMware Average amount of time, in milliseconds, spent by VMKernel processing each SCSI read command |
| VMware Average amount of time taken during the collection interval to process a SCSI read command issued from the Guest OS to the virtual machine |
| VMware Average amount of time taken during the collection interval per SCSI read command in the VMKernel queue |
| VMware Average amount of time, in milliseconds, to write to the physical device |
| VMware Average amount of time, in milliseconds, spent by VMKernel processing each SCSI write command |
| VMware Average amount of time taken during the collection interval to process a SCSI write command issued by the Guest OS to the virtual machine |
| VMware Average amount time taken during the collection interval per SCSI write command in the VMKernel queue |
| VMware Average amount of time, in milliseconds, to complete a SCSI command from the physical device |
| VMware Average amount of time, in milliseconds, spent by VMkernel processing each SCSI command |
| Memory |
| VMware Memory usage as percentage of total configured or available memory |
| VMware Amount of machine memory or physical memory that is mapped for a virtual machine or a host |
| VMware Amount of memory that is actively used, as estimated by VMkernel based on recently touched memory pages |
| VMware Amount of guest memory that is shared with other virtual machines, relative to a single virtual machine or to all powered-on virtual machines on a host |
| VMware Memory that contains 0s only |
| VMware Amount of memory that is unreserved |
| VMware Amount of memory that is used by swap |
| VMware Amount of machine memory that is shared by all powered-on virtual machines and vSphere services on the host |
| VMware VMkernel virtual address space dedicated to VMkernel main heap and related data |
| VMware Free address space in the VMkernel's main heap |
| VMware One of four threshold levels representing the percentage of free memory on the host. The counter value determines swapping and ballooning behavior for memory reclamation. |
| VMware Amount of memory allocated by the virtual machine memory control driver (vmmemctl), which is installed with VMware Tools |
| VMware Memory (KB) consumed by the virtualization infrastructure for running the VM |
| VMware Total amount of memory reservation used by powered-on virtual machines and vSphere services on the host |
| VMware Amount swapped-in to memory from disk |
| VMware Amount of memory swapped-out to disk |
| VMware Amount of memory consumed by a virtual machine, host, or cluster |
| VMware VMkernel for core functionality, such as device drivers and other internal uses |
| VMware Rate at which memory is swapped from disk into active memory during the interval |
| VMware Rate at which memory is being swapped from active memory to disk during the current interval |
| VMware Amount of memory actively being written to by the VM |
| VMware Amount of memory compressed by ESX |
| VMware Rate of memory compression for the VM |
| VMware Rate of memory decompression for the VM |
| VMware Total amount of memory reservation used by and available for powered-on virtual machines and vSphere services on the host |
| Network |
| VMware Network utilization (combined transmit- and receive-rates) during the interval |
| VMware Number of packets received during the interval |
| VMware Number of packets transmitted during the interval |
| VMware Average rate at which data was received during the interval |
| VMware Average rate at which data was transmitted during the interval |
| VMware Number of receives dropped |
| VMware Number of transmits dropped |
| Power |
| VMware Current power usage |
| VMware Maximum allowed power usage |
| VMware Total energy used since last stats reset |
| VMware Resource group CPU |
| VMware CPU active average over N minutes |
| VMware CPU running average over N minutes |
| VMware Amount of CPU resources over the limit that were refused, average over N minutes |
| VMware Group CPU sample count |
| VMware Group CPU sample period |
| VMware Storage Adapter |
| VMware Average number of commands issued per second by the storage adapter during the collection interval |
| VMware Average number of read commands issued per second by the storage adapter during the collection interval |
| VMware Average number of write commands issued per second by the storage adapter during the collection interval |
| VMware Rate of reading data by the storage adapter |
| VMware Rate of writing data by the storage adapter |
| VMware The average time a read by the storage adapter takes |
| VMware The average time a write by the storage adapter takes |
| VMware Storage path |
| VMware Average number of commands issued per second on the storage path during the collection interval |
| VMware Average number of read commands issued per second on the storage path during the collection interval |
| VMware Average number of write commands issued per second on the storage path during the collection interval |
| VMware Rate of reading data on the storage path |
| VMware Rate of writing data on the storage path |
| VMware The average time a read issued on the storage path takes |
| VMware The average time a write issued on the storage path takes |
| System |
| VMware Total time elapsed, in seconds, since last system startup |
| VMware Amount of disk space usage for each mount point |
| VMware Amount of CPU used during the interval by the Service Console and other applications |
| VMware Memory touched by the system resource group |
| VMware Memory mapped by the system resource group |
| VMware Memory saved due to sharing by the system resource group |
| VMware Memory swapped out by the system resource group |
| VMware Overhead memory consumed by the system resource group |
| VMware Memory shared by the system resource group |
| VMware Zero filled memory used by the system resource group |
| VMware CPU running average over 1 minute of the system resource group |
| VMware CPU active average over 1 minute of the system resource group |
| VMware CPU maximum limited over 1 minute of the system resource group |
| VMware CPU running average over 5 minutes of the system resource group |
| VMware CPU active average over 5 minutes of the system resource group |
| VMware CPU maximum limited over 5 minutes of the system resource group |
| VMware CPU allocation reservation (in MHZ) of the system resource group |
| VMware CPU allocation limit (in MHZ) of the system resource group |
| VMware CPU allocation shares of the system resource group |
| VMware Memory allocation reservation (in KB) of the system resource group |
| VMware Memory allocation limit (in KB) of the system resource group |
| VMware Memory allocation shares of the system resource group |
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