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Foglight for VMware 5.7.7 - User and Reference Guide

Table of Contents

Using VMware Monitoring in Foglight for Storage Management

Introducing the virtual infrastructure

Physical objects Virtual objects

Navigation basics

VMware Monitoring in Foglight for Storage Management browser interface elements

Navigation panel Display area Action panel

Breadcrumbs Time Range Sortable lists Alarms and their status indicators Mouse-over actions

Interacting with VMware Monitoring in Foglight for Storage Management

About VMware roles Exploring the VMWare Agent Administration Dashboard

Rule Configuration tab Tasks tab User Level Access tab Black List Tab Agents view Accessing the VMware Agent Administration Dashboard

Configuring monitoring agents for data collection Investigating performance metrics

Viewing baseline ranges

Setting the alarm sensitivity level Additional features

Creating OS mapping rules Reviewing object instances and limits Configure Metrics Collection Generating reports

VMware Performance Agent configuration

VMware Performance Agent and Agent Manager configuration

Monitoring more than 4000 virtual machines from a single agent host Host system recommendations

Configuring agent properties Setting the Configuration properties Setting the FileCollector properties Setting the vSwitchCollector properties Setting the Duplicate VM List properties Setting the Black List properties Setting the Data Collection Scheduler properties

VMware Explorer views

FAQts tab Resource Pools Relationship Tree view Storage tab (Cluster) Storage tab (Datacenter) Storage tab (ESX Host) Storage tab (Virtual Machine) Summary tab Summary (All Clusters) tab Summary (All Datacenters) tab Summary (All Resource Pools) tab Summary (All Servers) tab Summary (All Virtual Machines) tab Virtual Infrastructure view

VMware Agent Administration views

Agents view Instances and Limits view OS Mapping view Metrics Collection Management View Topology views

VMW Cluster Disk IO

Datacenter Rules

VMW Datacenter Disk IO

Datastore Rules

VMW Datastore Estimated Fill Time VMW Datastore Inactive

Resource Pool Rules

VMW Resource Pool Disk IO

ESX Server Rules

VMW ESX Server Disk IO VMW ESX Server Queue Latency VMW ESX Server Queue Latency Deviation VMW ESX Server Total Latency VMW ESX Server Total Latency Deviation

VirtualCenter Rules

VMW VirtualCenter Disk IO

Virtual Machine Rules

VMW Virtual Machine Disk Command Aborts VMW Virtual Machine Disk IO VMW Virtual Machine Logical Drive Estimated Fill Time VMW Virtual Machine Logical Drive Utilization VMW Virtual Machine Memory Swapping

Virtual Switch Rules

VMW Distributed Virtual Switch Available Ports VMW Distributed Virtual Switch Network Utilization VMW Distributed Virtual Switch Packet Loss VMW Standard Virtual Switch Available Ports VMW Standard Virtual Switch Network Packet Loss VMW Standard Virtual Switch Network Utilization VMW Virtual Switch Credentials Invalid

Appendix: Alarm Messages Appendix: Metrics

Virtual machine metrics ESXi host metrics Datastore metrics Datastore cluster metrics Resource pool metrics vApp metrics Cluster metrics Datacenter metrics vCenter metrics DvSwitch metrics

VMW ESX Server Total Latency

This rule fires when the total command latency (that is, the time taken during the collection interval to process a SCSI command issued by the guest OS to the virtual machine or the sum of kernelLatency and deviceLatency, based on data from the seven days prior to yesterday) of an ESX Server physical disk exceeds the normal operating range.

VMWESXServerPhysicalDisk

Table 60. Rule Definition
Conditions	State	Action
The total command latency is less than 25 milliseconds.	Normal	None
The total command latency is 25 milliseconds or greater, but no greater than 34 milliseconds.	Warning	None
The total command latency is 35 milliseconds or greater, but no greater than 39 milliseconds.	Critical	Send email to VMware administrator
The total command latency is 40 milliseconds or greater.	Fatal	Send email to VMware administrator

VMW ESX Server Total Latency Deviation

This rule fires when the total command latency (that is, the time taken during the collection interval to process a SCSI command issued by the guest OS to the virtual machine or the sum of kernelLatency and deviceLatency, based on data from the seven days prior to yesterday) of an ESX Server physical disk exceeds the normal operating range, using deviation.

VMWESXServerPhysicalDisk

Table 61. Rule Definition
Conditions	State	Action
The total command latency is no more than 2.2 standard deviations from the mean total command latency.	Normal	None
The total command latency is more than 2.2 but no more than 2.8 standard deviations from the mean total command latency.	Warning	None
The total command latency is more than 2.8 standard deviations from the mean total command latency.	Critical	Send email to VMware administrator

VirtualCenter Rules

This section describes the VirtualCenter rule. This rule is disabled by default, and can be enabled as required:

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VMW VirtualCenter Disk IO

VMW VirtualCenter Disk IO

This rule monitors for spikes and dramatic drops in disk IO for a VirtualCenter.

VMWVirtualCenter

Table 62. Rule Definition
Conditions	State	Action
The disk usage is no more than 2.2 standard deviations (NumSTDevs) from the mean disk usage.	Normal	None
The disk usage is more than 2.2 but no more than 2.8 standard deviations from the mean disk usage.	Warning	None
The disk usage is more than 2.8 standard deviations from the mean disk usage.	Critical	None

Views Displaying Alarms Based on this Rule

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Virtual Infrastructure view

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