Comments on: vSphere Virtual Machine Performance Counters Integration into Perfmon

By: Philbert Rupkins

Philbert Rupkins — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:15:18 +0000

Very nice job. Very clear and concise. I appreciate the feedback from VMWare as well.

Thanks a ton!

By: Prabhdeep

Prabhdeep — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:16:31 +0000

Server virtualization can dramatically improve the efficiency and availability of hardware resources and applications. But as operating systems and applications are decoupled from the network, physical servers, and storage devices, it becomes more and more difficult to monitor, troubleshoot, and manage your IT infrastructure from end to end.
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By: leomartin

leomartin — Tue, 18 May 2010 06:59:40 +0000

Building on the proven power of the VMware Infrastructure platform, which is used by more than 130,000 customers, VMware vSphere dramatically reduces capital and operating costs and increases control over delivery of IT services, while preserving the flexibility to choose between any type of operating system, application, and hardware.
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By: dweb

dweb — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:05:46 +0000

Interesting observation…VM Processor %Processor time is consistently double that of the Perfmon native Processor % Processor Time counter

What do you think accounts for the difference, VMKernel overhead,CPU Ready or something else?

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By: vmdoug

vmdoug — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:13:58 +0000

Great post Jason! As always you do a great job of explaining an often mis-understood topic

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VCP4 Resource Page — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:02:09 +0000

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By: Jayadeep Purushothaman

Jayadeep Purushothaman — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:00:33 +0000

While it gives people the same feel with the tools they know of in a guest, the limitation you point out are a result of the fact that it is difficult to provide a heterogeneous solution within the guest. So from a performance management perspective, it may be better off to approach it in a top down fashion and go to the guest only if absolutely needed. And for most of the times, an overall performance number from outside the guest would suffice IMO.

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:45:39 +0000

Nice overview of the new Perfmon integration.

I suspect that the typical admin of any hypervisor platform does not fully understand the implications of in-guest monitoring.

Reinforces the point that there is more to “managing physical and virtual” than just treating VMs like physical boxes.

Eric