In the previous chapter, you learned some basic troubleshooting skills and performed some vSphere troubleshooting. This chapter extends those skills deeper by using different monitoring tools to observe vSphere performance and identifies any potential problems that can cause bottlenecks in your infrastructure.
The topics covered in this chapter are as follows:
Tools for performance monitoring
Analyzing the esxtop results
Understanding key performance metrics (CPU, memory, network, storage)
Using vMA and remote esxtop
Analyzing vCenter performance charts
Creating charts
Configuring metrics
Configuring logging level for performance
USB attached virtual machines
Fault-tolerant virtual machines
The previous chapter thoroughly covered how to collect diagnostic information and different logs from vSphere hosts. Sometimes, the diagnostic information you have collected is not enough to identify the root cause of the problems vSphere hosts are...