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VMware metrics
Chapter 5 Perceive metrics 169
VMware metrics
The Distributed Systems package includes VMware metrics. The pre-built view
shows all the VMware partitions along with the VMware Virtualization layer. The
CPU percentage metric and the graph objects are displayed with stacked bars. The
following metrics are available under the top-level metric folder, in the VMware
folder.
Metric Description
Partition Table
Lists the partitions on the virtual machine by display ID
name, OS type, and Virtual type.
Units: Text string
Default graph: Table
VM CPU Activity Displays CPU time in seconds that a virtual machine
used
.
Units: Percent
Default graph: Bar
VM Total IO Displays total IO of the system.
Units:
Bytes/second
Default graph: Bar
VM Memory Usage
Displays total memory usage of the system.
Units: Kilobytes
Default graph: Bar
VM Network
Rate-Packets
Displays the network rate of packets transmitted per
second by the virtual machine on the network interface
card (NIC).
Units: Packets/second
Default graph: Bar
VM Network Rate - KB
Displays the network rate (in KB) of the virtual machine.
Units: Kilobytes/second
Default graph: Bar