These graphs can get VERY customizable with each of the major chart metrics (like CPU, memory, etc) having MANY counters available to graph. If you go into Chart Options, it's here that you can create your own custom charts and graphs and save them for later use. In fact, in the advanced graphs, you can graph based on CPU, datastore, disk, memory, network, power, storage adaptor, storage path, and system. The host (or resource pool or cluster levels, if your hosts are in one of those) is the first level where you can view performance information other than the storage performance data available at the virtual data center level.
Hosts - moving down to the virtual datacenter host level, you'll find the traditional sub tabs of issues, tasks, events, and log browser but you'll also find some more important sub tabs like performance. If we start from the top of the hosts and clusters tree and move from vCenter server, to host, to VM, here's what you'll see that is unique from one to the other: Even the vCenter server level has a contextual tab that contains service health and system logs, along with the other standard sub-tab options like issues, tasks, events, and log browser. Going all the way up to the vCenter server level is the top of the hosts and clusters tree, just like it is the top of other resource trees like Storage and Network.
Even the vCenter server (if you click on the hostname of that server) has it's own monitoring tab. For example, the monitoring tab for a host has a hardware sub-tab that provides information and statistics about how the host hardware is performing. As it is contextual, the options available on the tab will change as you move, let's say, from a host to a VM or over a virtual datacenter, folder, cluster, or resource pool. The Monitoring tab in the vSphere 5.5 Web Client is the single best place to go for any sort of monitoring. Using the vSphere 5.5 Web Client Monitoring Tab
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What better way than to use the web client to monitor your virtual machines, right? That experience with the web client and your knowledge of how to find information fast will really pay off the next time that a problem or trouble arises in the virtual infrastructure as you will be able to solve it quicker. In most cases the usability is better but re-training yourself to use the new interface will take time. The web client, which you should push to be your standard management interface for vSphere, is very different in it's usability. In this two-part series, I'd like to capitalize on that knowledge of vSphere resources and discuss monitoring virtual machines in vSphere (part of which will be resource monitoring, using the vSphere web client). In the second article, VMware vSphere Resource Management Configuration Basics, I talked about how to configure reservations, resource pools, shares, and limits. The first article, Getting Started with Resource Management in VMware vSphere provided the background on the difference between the physical and virtual datacenter, vsphere resource types, resource providers, resource consumers, and why it's so important to manage your resources. In my last two articles, I discussed resource management in vSphere.
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