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VMware vRealize Operations Performance and Capacity Management

VMware vRealize Operations Performance and Capacity Management

By : Rahabok
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VMware vRealize Operations Performance and Capacity Management

VMware vRealize Operations Performance and Capacity Management

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By: Rahabok
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Overview of this book

If you are an IT professional who is interested in performance management and capacity management in a virtual data center, then this book is ideal for you. The book is an intermediate-level book.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What this book is not
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Virtual Data Center – It's Not a Physical Data Center, Virtualized
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1. Virtual Data Center – It's Not a Physical Data Center, Virtualized
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Our journey into the virtual world
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Not all "virtualizations" are equal
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Virtual Machine – it is not what you think!
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Software-Defined Data Center
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A virtual data center versus a physical data center
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Management disciplines impacted by virtualization
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Summary
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2. Capacity Management in SDDC
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2. Capacity Management in SDDC
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Shift in capacity management
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Capacity management at the VM level
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Capacity management at the infrastructure level
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Summary
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3. Mastering the Key Counters in SDDC
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3. Mastering the Key Counters in SDDC
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First things first – the purpose
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Compute
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Network
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Storage
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Metric groups
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Counters in vCenter and vRealize Operations
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Summary
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4. CPU Counters
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4. CPU Counters
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CPU counters at the VM level
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CPU counters at the ESXi level
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CPU counters at the cluster level
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CPU counters at higher levels
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CPU contention guidance
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Summary
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5. Memory Counters
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5. Memory Counters
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Memory – not such a simple matter
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Memory counters at the VM level
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Memory counters at the ESXi level
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Memory counters at the cluster level
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Memory counters at higher levels
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Memory contention guidance
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6. Network Counters
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6. Network Counters
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Network monitoring and management
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Network counters at the VM level
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Network counters at the ESXi level
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Network counters at the cluster level
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Network counters at the Distributed Switch level
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Network counters at higher levels
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Summary
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7. Storage Counters
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7. Storage Counters
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The multilayer storage
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Storage counters at the VM level
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Storage counters at the ESXi level
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Storage counters at the cluster level
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Storage counters at the datastore level
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Storage counters at the datastore cluster level
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Storage counters at the higher level
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Storage contention guidance
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8. Dashboard Examples and Ideas
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8. Dashboard Examples and Ideas
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Planning for your dashboards
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Use case – is virtualization causing a problem?
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Use case – managing the overall SDDC performance
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Use case – dashboards for the big screen
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Use case – storage performance management
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Use case – storage capacity management
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Use case – network performance management
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Use case – right-sizing large VMs
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Use case – capacity planning
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References
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Index
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Index

Memory counters at the ESXi level

vCenter provides even more counters at ESXi level: 32 counters for RAM plus 11 for VMkernel RAM. VMkernel has around 50 processes that are tracked. As a result, a cluster of 8 ESXi can have about 800 counters just for ESXi RAM! The counters are shown in the next screenshot. Most of them are not shown as a percentage, making it difficult to compare across ESXi with different memory sizes.

ESXi: RAM counters

As for the VMkernel processes, they are not shown under the Memory group, but under the System group. In most cases, you do not need to track the CPU or RAM consumed by the kernel processes. If you are curious, you can see the individual process (for example, vMotion, storage vMotion, hostd, vpxa, and dcui) consumption of CPU or RAM, as shown in the following chart. While Virtual SAN is a kernel module, the vSphere 5.5 Update 2 performance counter does not track it. You will need a separate tool for now to track Virtual SAN.

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