Index
A
- Active counter
- Antivirus (AV) property / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
- application, virtual datacenter / Application
- ASEAN lab / vRealize Operations versus vCenter
- asset management / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- asset property / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
- availability management / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- availability property / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
B
- backup property / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
- Badge metric group / Metric groups
- big screen dashboards
- characteristics / Use case – dashboards for the big screen
- creating / Use case – dashboards for the big screen
- BIOS property / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
C
- Capacity left for VM / Capacity planning at the compute level
- capacity management / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- about / Shift in capacity management
- operationally / Shift in capacity management
- architecturally / Shift in capacity management
- at VM level / Capacity management at the VM level
- at infrastructure level / Capacity management at the infrastructure level
- capacity management, at infrastructure level
- about / Capacity management at the infrastructure level
- capacity planning, at compute level / Capacity planning at the compute level
- capacity planning, at storage layer / Capacity planning at the storage layer
- capacity planning, at network layer / Capacity planning at the network layer
- capacity planning
- at compute level / Capacity planning at the compute level
- at storage layer / Capacity planning at the storage layer
- at network layer / Capacity planning at the network layer
- Chief Information Officers (CIOs) / Our journey into the virtual world
- cluster
- vCenter metric groups / Cluster – metric groups
- Cluster CPU counters
- Cluster Network counters / Network counters at the cluster level
- Cluster services / ESXi – metric groups
- cluster storage counters
- compliance management / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- compute / Compute
- compute function / The compute function
- configuration management / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- Configuration Management Database (CMDB) / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
- Configuration metric group / Metric groups
- Consumed counter
- Container / Not all "virtualizations" are equal
- Contention counter
- Contention counters
- about / Contention counters
- Contention counters, ESXi
- about / Contention counters
- Contention counters, ESXi CPU counter
- about / Contention counters
- Contention counters, VM
- about / Contention counters
- Contention counters, VM CPU counters
- about / Contention counters
- counters
- users, application team / First things first – the purpose
- users, infrastructure team / First things first – the purpose
- in vRealize Operations / Counters in vCenter and vRealize Operations
- in vCenter / Counters in vCenter and vRealize Operations
- URL / Counters in vCenter and vRealize Operations
- counters, vSphere API
- CPU contention
- guidance / CPU contention guidance
- CPU counters
- at VM level / CPU counters at the VM level
- at ESXi level / CPU counters at the ESXi level
- at cluster level / CPU counters at the cluster level
- at higher levels / CPU counters at higher levels
- CPU run queue / CPU counters at the VM level
D
- dashboards
- types / Planning for your dashboards
- planning / Planning for your dashboards
- counters, using / Using the right counters
- differentiating / Figuring out who will use which dashboard
- determining / How many dashboards do I need to have?
- data center
- vCenter metric groups / Data center – metric groups
- datacenters
- physical / Data center
- virtual / Data center
- Data Receive Rate (RX) / Network counters at the VM level
- datastore
- vCenter metric groups / Datastore – metric groups
- datastore-cluster storage counters
- datastore cluster
- vCenter metric groups / Datastore cluster – metric groups
- Datastore counter / Storage
- datastore storage counters
- Data Transmit Rate (TX) / Network counters at the VM level
- Demand-to-entitlement ratio counter, VM CPU counters / Other counters
- Demand counter / Compute
- Desktop VMs (VDI) / vCenter – metric groups
- Disaster Recovery (DR) / Not all "virtualizations" are equal
- Disaster Recovery (DR), physical datacenter / Disaster Recovery
- Disaster Recovery (DR), virtual datacenter / Disaster Recovery
- Disk / Storage
- distributed switch / The distributed switch
- Distributed Virtual Switch Network counters / Network counters at the Distributed Switch level
- drivers property / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
E
- Entitlement counter / Compute
- ESXi
- memory counters / Memory counters at the ESXi level
- ESXi CPU counter
- about / CPU counters at the ESXi level
- total capacity / Utilization counters
- reserved capacity / Utilization counters
- ESXi CPU key counters
- about / ESXi CPU key counters
- core level counters / ESXi CPU key counters
- ESXi host / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
- vCenter metric groups / ESXi – metric groups
- ESXi Network counters / Network counters at the ESXi level
- ESXi storage counters
- esxtop / Metric groups
F
- Fault Tolerance / Not all "virtualizations" are equal
- financial management / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
G
- ground-level team dashboards
- differentiating, with senior management dashboards / Figuring out who will use which dashboard
H
- HA (High Availability) / Not all "virtualizations" are equal
- hardware upgrade property / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
- High Availability (HA) / Server
- higher level storage counters
- Hyper-Threading (HT) / Contention counters
- hyperic
I
- I/O blender effect
- about / The multilayer storage
- INF-VSP1729
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) workload / Capacity planning at the compute level
- infrastructure layer / First things first – the purpose
- infrastructure team, physical datacenter / Infrastructure team
- infrastructure team, virtual datacenter / Infrastructure team
- IOmeter
- URL / The multilayer storage
K
- Key Performance Indicator (KPI) / Compute
L
- Latency counter / Network counters at the VM level
- Limit counter / Compute
M
- management disciplines, virtualization
- performance management / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- availability management / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- capacity management / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- compliance management / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- security / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- configuration management / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- patch management / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- financial management / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- asset management / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- operations management / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- memory
- memory contention
- guidance / Memory contention guidance
- memory counters, at cluster level
- memory counters, at higher levels
- about / Memory counters at higher levels
- memory counters, ESXi
- about / Memory counters at the ESXi level
- Contention counters / Contention counters
- Utilization counters / Utilization counters
- for RAM / ESXi memory key counters
- memory counters, VM
- about / Memory counters at the VM level
- Demand counters / Memory counters at the VM level
- Utilization counters / Memory counters at the VM level, Utilization counters
- Contention counters / Memory counters at the VM level, Contention counters
- Shared memory counter / Other counters
- Overhead touched counter / Other counters
- Reserved overhead counter / Other counters
- Overhead counter / Other counters
- implementing / Putting it together
- for RAM / VM memory key counters
- metric group
- about / Metric groups
- vRealize Operations generated / Metric groups
- Badge / Metric groups
- Summary / Metric groups
- vSphere configuration limit / Metric groups
- Configuration / Metric groups
- monitoring property / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
- Mouse, Keyboard, Screen (MKS) / Counters in vCenter and vRealize Operations
- multilayer storage
- about / The multilayer storage
N
- NetFlow Logic
- network
- network, physical datacenter / Network
- network, virtual datacenter / Network
- Network counters
- at VM level / Network counters at the VM level
- at ESXi level / Network counters at the ESXi level
- at cluster level / Network counters at the cluster level
- at Distributed Switch level / Network counters at the Distributed Switch level
- at higher levels / Network counters at higher levels
- network function / The network function
- Network I/O Control (NIOC) / Network
- networking, SDDC
- Network Interface Cards (NIC) / Capacity planning at the storage layer
- network monitoring
- network performance management dashboard
- creating / Use case – network performance management
- network property / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
- NFS Datastore / Storage
- Non vSphere workload / Capacity planning at the compute level
- N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
O
- operations management / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- Overhead counter
- about / Other counters
- Overhead touched counter
- about / Other counters
- oversized VM
- disadvantages / Use case – right-sizing large VMs
P
- page
- partitioning
- about / Not all "virtualizations" are equal
- hardware level / Not all "virtualizations" are equal
- OS level / Not all "virtualizations" are equal
- patch management / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- peaks
- about / When is a peak not a true peak?
- dimensions / When is a peak not a true peak?
- performance management / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- versus performance troubleshooting / Planning for your dashboards
- performance troubleshooting
- versus performance management / Planning for your dashboards
- physical datacenter
- versus virtual datacenter / A virtual data center versus a physical data center
- about / Data center
- servers / Server
- storage / Storage
- network / Network
- Disaster Recovery (DR) / Disaster Recovery
- application / Application
- infrastructure team / Infrastructure team
- power management
- URL / Contention counters
- Provisioned counter / Compute
Q
- Quality of Service (QoS) / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
R
- RDM / Storage
- Receive (Rx)
- about / The multilayer storage
- Reservation counter / Compute
- Reserved overhead counter
- about / Other counters
- right-sizing large VM dashboard
- creating / Use case – right-sizing large VMs
- about / What the dashboard looks like
- Rollup / ESXi – metric groups
S
- SDDC-Mgmt-Cluster / The compute function
- SDDC performance management dashboard
- creating / Use case – managing the overall SDDC performance
- creating, at VM level / VM level
- creating, at infrastructure level / Infrastructure level
- security / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- senior management dashboards
- differentiating, with ground-level team dashboards / Figuring out who will use which dashboard
- server, physical datacenter / Server
- server, virtual datacenter / Server
- Server VMs (VSI) / vCenter – metric groups
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) / First things first – the purpose
- about / The multilayer storage
- Shared memory counter
- about / Other counters
- software-defined datacenter
- about / Software-Defined Data Center
- compute function / The compute function
- network function / The network function
- storage function / The storage function
- function relationships, summarizing / All together now
- Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)
- storage
- about / Storage
- storage, physical datacenter / Storage
- storage, virtual datacenter / Storage
- storage capacity management dashboard
- creating / Use case – storage capacity management
- storage contention
- guidance / Storage contention guidance
- storage counters
- at VM level / Storage counters at the VM level
- at ESXi level / Storage counters at the ESXi level
- at cluster level / Storage counters at the cluster level
- at datastore level / Storage counters at the datastore level
- at datastore-cluster level / Storage counters at the datastore cluster level
- at higher level / Storage counters at the higher level
- storage function / The storage function
- Storage I/O Control (SIOC) / Capacity planning at the storage layer
- storage performance, considerations
- array / The multilayer storage
- network / The multilayer storage
- ESXi host / The multilayer storage
- VM / The multilayer storage
- storage performance management dashboard
- creating / Use case – storage performance management
- storage property / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
- Summary metric group / Metric groups
T
- Transmit (Tx)
- about / The multilayer storage
U
- Usage counter / Compute
- use case, dashboards
- virtualization performance management / Use case – is virtualization causing a problem?
- SDDC performance management / Use case – managing the overall SDDC performance
- for big screen / Use case – dashboards for the big screen
- storage performance management / Use case – storage performance management
- storage capacity management / Use case – storage capacity management
- network performance management / Use case – network performance management
- right-sizing large VMs / Use case – right-sizing large VMs
- capacity planning / Use case – capacity planning
- Utilization counters, ESXi
- about / Utilization counters
- Utilization counters, ESXi CPU counter
- about / Utilization counters
- Utilization counters, VM
- about / Utilization counters
- Utilization counters, VM CPU counters
- about / Utilization counters
- Usage / Utilization counters
- Demand / Utilization counters
- Run / Utilization counters
- System counter / Utilization counters
- Overlap counter / Utilization counters
V
- vCenter / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
- metric groups / vCenter – metric groups
- counters / Counters in vCenter and vRealize Operations
- versus vRealize Operations / vRealize Operations versus vCenter
- vCenter metric groups
- for VM / VM – metric groups
- for ESXi host / ESXi – metric groups
- for cluster / Cluster – metric groups
- for datastore / Datastore – metric groups
- for datastore cluster / Datastore cluster – metric groups
- distributed switch / The distributed switch
- for data center / Data center – metric groups
- for vCenter / vCenter – metric groups
- vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS) / Network
- vDS / Metric groups
- views
- about / What the dashboard looks like
- virtual datacenter
- versus physical datacenter / A virtual data center versus a physical data center
- about / Data center
- servers / Server
- storage / Storage
- network / Network
- Disaster Recovery (DR) / Disaster Recovery
- application / Application
- infrastructure team / Infrastructure team
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) workload / Capacity planning at the compute level
- Virtual HW property / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
- virtualization
- about / Our journey into the virtual world, Not all "virtualizations" are equal
- URL / Our journey into the virtual world
- changes / Our journey into the virtual world
- management disciplines / Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
- virtualization performance management dashboard
- creating / Use case – is virtualization causing a problem?
- about / What the dashboard looks like
- VM
- about / Not all "virtualizations" are equal, Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
- physical server properties, comparing with / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
- vCenter metric groups / VM – metric groups
- memory counters / Memory counters at the VM level
- VM CPU counters
- about / CPU counters at the VM level
- Contention counters / Contention counters
- Utilization counters / Utilization counters
- Demand-to-entitlement ratio counter / Other counters
- VM CPU key counters / VM CPU key counters
- VM CPU key counter / VM CPU key counters
- VMFS Datastore / Storage
- VM layer / First things first – the purpose
- VM level
- components / Capacity management at the VM level
- VM Network counters / Network counters at the VM level
- VM storage counters
- about / Storage counters at the VM level
- example / Putting it all together
- key counters / VM storage key counters
- virtual disk counters / VM storage key counters
- VM counters / VM storage key counters
- VMware
- VMware Solution Exchange
- VMworld 2012 sessions
- vRealize Operations
- counters / Counters in vCenter and vRealize Operations
- versus vCenter / vRealize Operations versus vCenter
- cluster counters / Memory counters at the cluster level
- higher-level objects counters / Memory counters at higher levels
- vRealize Operations cluster counters / Network counters at higher levels
- vRealize Operations dashboards
- reference link / How many dashboards do I need to have?
- vRealize Operations generated metric group / Metric groups
- vRealize Operations metric groups
- CPU / VM – metric groups
- RAM / VM – metric groups
- Network / VM – metric groups
- Storage / VM – metric groups
- others / VM – metric groups
- vSphere 5.5
- vSphere configuration limit metric group / Metric groups
- vSphere memory management
- reference link / Memory – not such a simple matter
- vSphere Replication / Not all "virtualizations" are equal
W
- Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
- Workload counter / vRealize Operations versus vCenter
- World Wide Name (WWN) / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!