Index
A
- Active counter / Memory counters at the VM level
- active memory / Some well-meaning but harmful advice
- Agent VMs / SDDC and network monitoring
- Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs)
- about / F5 BIG-IP
B
- Balloon target counter / Memory counters at the VM level
- big-screen dashboards
- about / Dashboards for the big screen
- guidelines / Dashboards for the big screen
- NOC availability dashboard / The NOC availability dashboard
- NOC performance dashboard / The NOC performance dashboard
- NOC capacity dashboard / The NOC capacity dashboard
- NOC configuration dashboard / The NOC configuration dashboard
- Blue Medora
- overview / Overview
C
- capacity management
- about / Capacity
- well-meaning pieces of advice / Some well-meaning but harmful advice
- shift / A shift in capacity management
- example / Putting it all together
- capacity monitoring
- about / Capacity, Capacity monitoring, At a glance
- capacity monitoring, tier 1 compute
- about / Tier 1 compute
- CPU / Tier 1 compute – CPU
- RAM / Tier 1 compute – RAM
- VM / Tier 1 compute – VM
- summary / Tier 1 compute – summary
- capacity monitoring dashboard
- implementing / Putting it all together
- enhancements / Enhancements to the dashboard
- capacity planning
- about / Capacity
- chief information officers (CIOs)
- Cisco Nexus Relationship dashboard
- about / Cisco Nexus switches
- Cisco Nexus switches
- about / Cisco Nexus switches
- Cisco Nexus Switch Overview dashboard
- about / Cisco Nexus switches
- Cisco UCS
- about / Cisco UCS
- Citrix XenDesktop
- about / Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp
- cluster metric groups
- about / Cluster metric groups
- Cluster services
- about / ESXi metric groups
- Command Unified Manager
- about / NetApp storage
- committed memory / Memory counters at the Guest OS level
- Compression counter / Memory counters at the VM level
- compute function
- Configuration Management Database (CMDB) / Management changes in SDDC
- consolidation ratio / Performance SLA
- Consumed counter / Memory counters at the VM level
- consumed memory / Some well-meaning but harmful advice
- consumer layer
- properties / The consumer layer
- contention
- versus utilization / Contention versus utilization
- Contractor Desktop pool / Network
- Controller Virtual Machine (CVM) / Tier 1 compute – CPU
- Controller VM (CVM) / SDDC and network monitoring
- counters, in vSphere and vRealize
- about / Counters in vSphere and vRealize
- CPU counters, at cluster level
- defining / CPU counters at the cluster level
- CPU counters, at ESXi level
- defining / CPU counters at the ESXi level
- contention counters / Contention counters
- utilization counters, key counters / Utilization counters – key counters
- utilization counters, secondary counters / Utilization counters – secondary counters
- ESXi CPU key counters / ESXi CPU key counters
- CPU counters, at higher levels
- defining / CPU counters at higher levels
- CPU counters, at VM level
- defining / CPU counters at the VM level
- contention counters / Contention counters
- contention counter and power management / The contention counter and power management
- CPU Contention / The contention counter – why ready is not enough
- utilization counters / Utilization counters
- CPU workload / The Utilization counter – CPU workload
- other counters / Other counters
- VM CPU key counters / VM CPU key counters
- CPU metric group
- about / ESXi metric groups
- CPU run queue
- CPU Scheduler, in VMware vSphere 5.1
- URL / Utilization counters
- CPU SLA
- about / CPU SLA
D
- dashboards
- for different roles / Who uses which dashboards
- number of dashboards, need for / How many dashboards do I need?
- dashboards, for network team
- about / Dashboards for the network team
- errors in network / Errors in the network
- network utilization / Utilization of the network
- special packets, in network / Special packets in the network
- dashboards, for storage team
- about / Dashboards for the storage team
- LUN performance monitoring / LUN performance monitoring
- VSAN performance monitoring / VSAN performance monitoring
- VM performance monitoring / VM performance monitoring
- datastore capacity monitoring / Datastore capacity monitoring
- dashboards, for VDI team
- about / Dashboards for the VDI team
- DaaS serving, maintaining / Is the DaaS serving the user well?
- VM memory usage / Which VDI users need bigger VMs?
- data center metric groups
- about / Data center metric groups
- Datastore / Multilayer storage
- datastore cluster metric groups
- about / Datastore cluster metric groups
- datastore metric groups
- about / Datastore metric groups
- provided by vRealize Operations / Datastore metric groups
- Dell PowerEdge servers
- about / Dell PowerEdge servers
- Dell Compute Overview dashboard / Dell PowerEdge servers
- Demand counter / Memory counters at the VM level, Utilization counters
- Desktop as a Service (DaaS) / Is the DaaS serving the user well?
- Disaster Recovery (DR)
- about / Hardware partitioning
- disk group
- about / Disk groups
- Disk Queue Length / Is the DaaS serving the user well?
- Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
- about / The compute function
- distributed switch metric groups
- about / Distributed switch metric groups
E
- Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) mode
- about / The compute function
- enhancements, capacity monitoring dashboard
- about / Enhancements to the dashboard
- percentile chart / The percentile chart
- utilization information / Utilization information
- Entitlement
- about / CPU counters at the ESXi level
- Entitlement counter / Memory counters at the VM level
- ESXi
- references / The contention counter and power management
- ESXi-level CPU counters
- defining / ESXi CPU key counters
- ESXi CPU core level counters
- defining / ESXi CPU key counters
- ESXi host temperature
- monitoring / Monitoring ESXi host temperature
- ESXi memory key counters / ESXi memory key counters
- ESXi metric groups
- about / ESXi metric groups
- ESXi storage
- about / ESXi and storage
- esxtop
- about / Metric groups
- example, capacity management
- about / Putting it all together
- availability, defining / Availability – service definition
- tier 1 compute monitoring / Tier 1 compute monitoring
- tier 2 and 3 compute monitoring / Tier 2 and 3 compute monitoring
- storage monitoring / Storage monitoring
- network monitoring / Network monitoring
- conclusion / Conclusion
F
- F5 BIG-IP
- Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) / Physical server versus Virtual Machine
- fiber channel storage / Capacity planning at the network layer
- free memory / Memory counters at the Guest OS level
H
- hardware-defined data center (HDDC) / The software-defined data center
- operations / What you manage has changed
- hardware partitioning
- versus virtualization / Hardware partitioning
- about / Hardware partitioning
- heatmaps
- about / Oracle Enterprise Manager
- Horizon View Agent
- about / CPU counters at the VM level
- hybrid VSAN / Disk
- Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) / The software-defined data center
- Hyper-Threading (HT)
- about / Contention counters
I
- IaaS performance
- about / What exactly is performance?, What is the overall IaaS performance?
- super metrics, creating / Creating the super metrics
- super metrics, applying / Applying the super metrics
- dashboard, creating / Creating the dashboard
- performance SLA line / The performance SLA line
- alerts / Alerts
- dashboard, for list of affected VMs / Which VMs are affected?
- dashboards, adapting to different environments / Adapting the dashboards to different environments
- IBM DB2
- IBM Tivoli
- about / IBM Tivoli
- Linux OS dashboard / IBM Tivoli
- Environment Overview dashboard / IBM Tivoli
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) / IBM Tivoli
- Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) / Application
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) / Management changes in SDDC
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) operation / What you manage has changed
- Infrastructure layer
- about / What exactly is performance?
- Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) / Physical server versus Virtual Machine
- Iometer
- URL / Utilization counters
K
- key performance indicator (KPI) / Compute
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- about / Microsoft SQL Server
- Knowledge Base (KB)
L
- Latency
- about / Contention counters
- Lenovo compute
- about / Lenovo Compute
- Overview dashboard / Lenovo Compute
- Logical Domain (LDOM)
- about / Hardware partitioning
- Logical Partition (LPAR)
- about / Hardware partitioning
- Logical Unit Number (LUN)
- Low free threshold (KB) counter / Contention counters
M
- Machine Demand (KB) / Utilization counters
- Managed VMware (dedicated)
- about / The software-defined data center
- Managed VMware (shared)
- about / The software-defined data center
- management changes, SDDC
- about / Management changes in SDDC
- performance management / Management changes in SDDC
- availability management / Management changes in SDDC
- capacity management / Management changes in SDDC
- compliance management / Management changes in SDDC
- security management / Management changes in SDDC
- configuration management / Management changes in SDDC
- financial management / Management changes in SDDC
- asset management / Management changes in SDDC
- maximum CPU performance
- Max Limited
- about / CPU counters at the ESXi level
- memory
- memory, rightsizing
- about / Rightsizing memory
- available memory / Rightsizing memory
- committed memory / Rightsizing memory
- large VM groups / Large VM groups
- standard deviation / Standard deviation
- View object / The View object
- memory counters
- at Guest OS level / Memory counters at the Guest OS level
- at cluster level / Memory counters at cluster level
- at higher levels / Memory counters at higher levels
- memory counters, at ESXi level
- about / Memory counters at the ESXi level
- contention counters / Contention counters
- utilization counters / Utilization counters
- Consumed, versus Active / Consumed versus Active
- ESXi memory key counters / ESXi memory key counters
- memory counters, at VM level
- about / Memory counters at the VM level
- contention counters / Contention counters
- utilization counters / Utilization counters
- other counters / Other counters
- implementing / Putting it together
- VM memory key counters / VM memory key counters
- Memory saved by zipping (KB) counter / Memory counters at the VM level
- memory SLA
- about / Memory SLA
- metric groups
- about / Metric groups
- VM metric groups / VM metric groups
- ESXi metric groups / ESXi metric groups
- cluster metric groups / Cluster metric groups
- datastore metric groups / Datastore metric groups
- datastore cluster metric groups / Datastore cluster metric groups
- distributed switch metric groups / Distributed switch metric groups
- data center metric groups / Data center metric groups
- vCenter metric groups / vCenter metric groups
- World metric groups / World metric groups
- Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
- about / Microsoft SQL Server
- multi-layer storage
- about / Multilayer storage
- contention counters / Contention counters
- utilization counters / Utilization counters
- multipathing / Physical server versus Virtual Machine
N
- NetApp storage
- about / NetApp storage
- NetApp Storage Topology
- about / NetApp storage
- network
- about / Network
- SDDC and network monitoring / SDDC and network monitoring
- source of data / The source of the data
- workload, determining / Determining network workload
- network capacity
- monitoring / Network
- network counters
- at Guest OS level / Network counters at the Guest OS level
- 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 distributed port group level / Network counters at the distributed port group level
- at higher levels / Network counters at higher levels
- in NSX / Network counters in NSX
- for physical switches / Network counters for physical switches
- network function
- Network I/O Control
- about / Network
- network interface card (NIC)
- about / The network function
- network interface cards (NICs) / Capacity planning at the storage layer
- network monitoring
- about / Network monitoring
- network operating center (NOC) / Dashboards for the big screen
- network SLA
- about / Network SLA
- NOC availability dashboard
- about / The NOC availability dashboard
- compute availability / Compute availability
- ESXi availability / Compute availability
- ESXi availability, tracking / Compute availability
- ESXi availability heatmap / Compute availability
- storage availability, monitoring / Storage availability
- network availability / Network availability
- NOC capacity dashboard
- about / The NOC capacity dashboard
- NOC configuration dashboard
- about / The NOC configuration dashboard
- NOC performance dashboard
- about / The NOC performance dashboard
- NSX Distributed Firewall / SDDC and network monitoring
- NSX Distributed Logical Router / SDDC and network monitoring
- N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!, Physical server versus Virtual Machine
O
- Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)
- about / Oracle Enterprise Manager
- OS partitioning
- versus virtualization / OS partitioning
- about / OS partitioning
- Overhead counter
- about / Other counters
- Overhead touched counter / Memory counters at the VM level
- about / Other counters
- oversized VMs
- disadvantages / VM rightsizing
P
- PCoIP / Network
- peak
- defining / When is a peak not a true peak?
- performance
- about / What exactly is performance?
- versus capacity / Performance versus capacity
- performance management
- performance monitoring
- about / Performance
- performance SLA
- about / Performance SLA
- CPU SLA / CPU SLA
- memory SLA / Memory SLA
- network SLA / Network SLA
- storage SLA / Storage SLA
- performance SLA line
- about / The performance SLA line
- super metric, creating / Step 1 – create a super metric to define the SLA
- group, creating / Step 2 – create a group for each tier
- policies, creating / Step 3 – create policies for each group
- super metrics, mapping to policy / Step 4 – map super metrics to policy
- SLA, adding to each line chart / Step 5 – add the SLA to each line chart
- resultant dashboard / The resultant dashboard
- performance troubleshooting
- about / Performance
- Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) process
- physical server
- versus Virtual Machine / Physical server versus Virtual Machine
- power management
- primary counters
- for monitoring / Primary counters for monitoring
- provider layer
- properties / The provider layer
- Provisioned Memory (KB) / Utilization counters
- pure cloud
- about / The software-defined data center
Q
- Quality of Service (QoS) / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
R
- Raw Capacity
- about / SDDC capacity planning
- Raw Device Mapping (RDM) / Physical server versus Virtual Machine
- Readiness
- about / Contention counters
- Ready
- about / Contention counters
- Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
- about / SDDC capacity planning
- Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) / Physical server versus Virtual Machine
- Reserved Capacity (MB) / Utilization counters
- Reserved overhead counter / Memory counters at the VM level
- about / Other counters
- restaurant analogy
- about / The restaurant analogy
- consumer layer / The consumer layer
- provider layer / The provider layer
S
- SAP HANA
- SDDC, versus HDDC
- about / SDDC versus HDDC
- data center / Data Center
- compute element / Compute
- storage / Storage
- networks / Network
- application / Application
- SDDC capacity planning
- about / SDDC 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
- SDDC key counters
- compute / Compute
- SDDC management
- changes, identifying / What you manage has changed
- architecturally / What you manage has changed
- operationally / What you manage has changed
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) / The restaurant analogy
- single-socket multi-core
- used, for VM configurations / CPU counters at the VM level
- Site Recovery Manager
- about / Hardware partitioning
- SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)
- reference / Disk
- software-defined data center (SDDC)
- about / The software-defined data center
- compute function / The compute function
- network function / The network function
- storage function / The storage function
- relationship, between key objects / All together now
- operations / What you manage has changed
- management changes / Management changes in SDDC
- specific-purpose dashboards
- big-screen dashboards / Dashboards for the big screen
- ESXi host temperature, monitoring / Monitoring ESXi host temperature
- dashboards, for storage team / Dashboards for the storage team
- dashboards, for network team / Dashboards for the network team
- dashboards, for VDI team / Dashboards for the VDI team
- Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
- about / Performance
- State counter
- about / Contention counters
- states / Contention counters
- storage
- about / Storage
- ESXi storage / ESXi and storage
- VMs storage / VMs and storage
- Storage Area Network (SAN)
- about / Hardware partitioning
- storage capacity
- monitoring / Storage
- performance / Storage – performance
- utilization / Storage – utilization
- storage counters
- 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 levels / Storage counters at higher levels
- storage counters, at VM level
- about / Storage counters at the VM level
- implementing / Putting it all together
- summarizing / VM storage counters – summary
- storage function
- Storage I/O control (SIOC) / Capacity planning at the storage layer
- Storage I/O Control (SIOC) / The source of the data, Storage counters at the ESXi level
- storage monitoring
- about / Storage monitoring
- local datastores / Storage monitoring
- datastore spanning multiple compute clusters / Storage monitoring
- storage SLA
- about / Storage SLA
- super metric
- reference / Creating the super metrics
- Swap target counter / Memory counters at the VM level
- System
- about / CPU counters at the ESXi level
T
- thin provisioning
- about / Storage – utilization
- tier 1 compute
- capacity, monitoring / Tier 1 compute
- tier 1 compute monitoring
- about / Tier 1 compute monitoring
- tier 2 and 3 compute
- capacity, monitoring / Tier 2 and 3 compute
- tier 2 compute monitoring
- about / Tier 2 and 3 compute monitoring
- tier 3 compute monitoring
- about / Tier 2 and 3 compute monitoring
- Top-Of-Rack (TOR) switch
- about / The network function
- Transparent Page Sharing / Tier 1 compute – RAM
- transparent page sharing / Consumed versus Active
U
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT) servers / Some well-meaning but harmful advice
V
- vCenter
- counters / Utilization counters
- vCenter 6.0
- about / VM metric groups
- vCenter metric groups
- about / vCenter metric groups
- vCenter Server
- about / Metric groups
- vCPUs, rightsizing
- about / Rightsizing vCPUs
- group, creating / Step 1 – create a group
- super metrics, creating / Step 2 – create super metrics
- heatmap, creating / Step 3 – create a heatmap
- list, creating / Step 4 – create a list
- detailed vCPU line chart, creating / Step 5 – create a detailed vCPU line chart
- percentile chart, adding / Step 6 – add a percentile chart
- interaction, configuring / Step 7 – configure interaction
- resultant dashboard / The resultant dashboard
- VDI capacity planning
- about / VDI capacity planning
- user's VDI VM / VDI capacity planning
- Horizon server VM / VDI capacity planning
- IaaS layer / VDI capacity planning
- VDI SLA
- Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) / Physical server versus Virtual Machine
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN or VLAN) / SDDC and network monitoring
- virtualization
- about / Not all virtualizations are equal
- versus partitioning / Not all virtualizations are equal
- Virtual Machine
- Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK)
- about / The software-defined data center
- Virtual Server Infrastructure (VSI)
- about / World metric groups
- virtual sockets and cores
- VM
- maintaining / Are you serving my VM well?
- excessive usage, impacting IaaS / Is any VM abusing the shared IaaS?
- VMFS extents / Storage
- VMHBA object / Disk groups
- VM layer
- about / What exactly is performance?
- VM memory key counters
- about / VM memory key counters
- VM metric groups
- about / VM metric groups
- vMotion
- performance problems / Is vMotion causing performance hit?
- VM rightsizing
- about / VM rightsizing
- VMs, rightsizing
- about / Rightsizing VMs
- large VMs, rightsizing / Rightsizing large VMs
- vCPUs, rightsizing / Rightsizing vCPUs
- memory, rightsizing / Rightsizing memory
- VMs storage
- about / VMs and storage
- VMware administrator
- VMware Horizon Servers
- about / World metric groups
- VMware Site Recovery Manager
- about / World metric groups
- VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) / The software-defined data center
- VMware Solution Exchange
- reference / The source of the data
- VMware Tools
- about / CPU counters at the VM level
- VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) / Storage
- VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN)
- about / VMware VSAN
- monitoring / Monitoring VSAN
- disk / Disk
- disk group / Disk groups
- hosts / VSAN hosts
- datastore / VSAN datastore
- vRealize Log Insight integration / Storage availability
- vRealize Operations
- about / Metric groups
- and cluster counters / CPU counters at higher levels
- vRealize Operations (vROps)
- about / Microsoft SQL Server
- vRealize Operations End Point Operations
- about / CPU counters at the VM level
- vROps
- about / Microsoft SQL Server
- vROps Database Solution
- about / IBM DB2
- vSphere Fault Tolerance
- about / Hardware partitioning
- vSphere High Availability (HA)
- about / The compute function
- vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA)
- about / Hardware partitioning
- vSphere memory management
- reference / Memory – not such a simple matter
- vSphere Network I/O Control (NIOC) / The source of the data
- vSphere Replication
- vSphere Storage I/O Control / Storage
- vSphere Traffic Shaping
- about / Network
W
- Wide Area Network (WAN) / VDI SLA
- Windows Server Failover Clusters (WSFC) / Physical server versus Virtual Machine
- Windows Volume Shadow Services (VSS) / Storage
- workload
- about / The NOC capacity dashboard
- World metric groups
- about / World metric groups
- World Wide Name (WWN) / Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
- World Wide Node Name (WWNN)
- about / ESXi and storage
- World Wide Port Name (WWPN)
- about / ESXi and storage
X
- XenApp
- about / Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp
Z
- Zipped memory counter / Memory counters at the VM level