VMware Monitoring

VMware monitoring

Tool is agent-less. All required data is downloaded from the vCenter via VMware Perl SDK.
It is free!
You can see all features on our demo site.

Monitoring Resources

  • vCenter
  • Cluster
  • Resource Pool
  • Datastore
  • ESXi
  • Virtual Machine (VM)

Monitoring Metrics

  • CPU performance (GHz, CPU cores, CPU ready)
  • Memory usage (reserved, granted, consumed, active, baloon, swap in, limit)
  • LAN performance in (MB/sec)
  • Disk performance (MB/sec, IO per sec, latency in ms)
  • Disk usage (GB)

Other Monitoring Features

  • vMotion graphical tracking
  • Trends
  • Historical reports
  • Custom Groups: grouping in one graph utilization from many virtual machines regardless where they run
  • Heatmap
VMware monitoring system diagram

Monitoring Matrix

vCenter Cluster Resource Pool ESXi VM Datastore
CPU total VMware monitoring CPU cluster total VMware monitoring CPU resource pool total VMware monitoring CPU host total VMware monitoring CPU VM total
CPU cluster aggregated VMware monitoring CPU vCenter cluster agg
CPU ESXi aggregated VMware monitoring CPU vCenter host agg VMware monitoring CPU cluster host agg
CPU VM aggregated VMware monitoring CPU vCenter VM agg VMware monitoring CPU cluster VM agg VMware monitoring CPU resource pool VM VMware monitoring CPU host VM aggregated
CPU ready VMware monitoring CPU ready aggregated VMware monitoring CPU ready aggregated
Memory total VMware monitoring Memory cluster total VMware Memory monitoring resource pool total VMware monitoring Memory host total VMware monitoring Memory VM total
Memory VM aggregated VMware monitoring Memory host agg
Network VMware monitoring Network host VMware monitoring Network VM total
Storage performance VMware monitoring Storage host VMware monitoring Storage VM total VMware monitoring Datastore performance
Storage allocation VMware monitoring Storage space usage VMware monitoring Datastore space usage
Power supply VMware monitoring Cluster Power
vMotion VMware monitoring vMotion VM

OS Agent

Collected data set can be enhanced about OS agent which brings these additional monitoring metrics:
OS CPU CPU sys, user, IO wait
CPU queue Load avrg, Blocked processes
JOB CPU, Memory
Memory utilization Used, FS cache
LAN (ethernet adapters) MB/sec, packet count
SAN (FC,vSCSI adapters) MB/sec, packets/sec, Latency
Paging space utilization Usage in %
Paging rate MB/sec
Filesystem usage Usage in %, GB