| vSphere/ESX Host Monitoring |
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What is the CPU load on the ESX kernel, on the console, and each of the virtual guests? |
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What is the free memory in the ESX kernel and the console? |
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Which network interfaces are seeing the most traffic? |
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Which storage devices are seeing high activity? |
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How much free space is available on each of the disk partitions? |
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Are there processes on the console VM that are taking up excessive resources? |
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| Virtual Guests Monitoring |
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How many guest virtual machines are running? What are their IP addresses/host names and operating systems? |
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What portion of the vSphere/ESX server’s CPU is used by each guest? |
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Are there times when a guest VM is not getting CPU cycles; i.e., is the ready time too high? |
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How much of the memory allocated is a guest VM actively using? |
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Is the balloon driver enabled for a guest VM, and how much memory has it freed for each guest VM? |
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Which processes on a guest VM are taking up high disk, CPU or memory resources? |
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Is there excessive paging or memory thrashing in a guest VM? |
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Do all the disk partitions inside the guest operating system have adequate space? |
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Is there excessive queuing for disk access on any guest operating system? Which applications could be causing these accesses? |
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| Virtual Desktop Monitoring |
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How many desktops are powered on simultaneously on the ESX Server? |
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Which users are logged on and when did each user login? |
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How much CPU, memory, disk and network resources is each desktop taking? |
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What is the typical duration of a user session? |
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Who has the peak usage times? |
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What applications are running on each desktop? |
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| VMotion Monitoring |
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Which vSphere/ESX server is a virtual guest running on? |
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When was a guest moved from an vSphere/ESX server? Which ESX server was the guest moved to? |
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Why was the guest VM migrated? What activities on the vSphere/ESX host caused the migration? |
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