Monitoring the Nutanix AHV Server

eG Enterprise provides a specialized model for monitoring Nutanix AHV servers with VMs that host server applications.

Figure 1 : Layer model of the Nutanix AHV server

Each layer of this model is mapped to tests that report on the resource usage of the hypervisor and the VMs inside-out, and point you to resource-hungry VMs and applications. Using the metrics reported by this model, administrators can find quick and accurate answers to the following performance queries:

• Is the AHV server available over the network? If so, how responsive is the server to requests?

• Is the content cache sized enough to handle requests, or are cache hits very low?

• How much memory did deduplication save in the content cache?

• Are any physical disks marked for removal? Has data from that disk been migrated?

• Which physical disk is currently offline?

• Is any physical disk being over-utilized?

• Are there any latent physical disks?

• How is the I/O performance of the physical disks?

• Is I/O load balanced across all physical disks?

• Is any physical disk consuming bandwidth excessively when processing I/O?

• How is the I/O load on the storage?

• Is the storage processing I/O requests quickly?

• Is too much bandwidth being consumed when processing I/O?

• Is the AHV sized with adequate storage resources? If not, what type of storage is running short of space - the SSDs? or the SATA HDDs?

• How many VMs are operating on the AHV server? What is their IP address and which OS are they running?

• Which VMs are currently powered off or suspended?

• Which VMs have been newly added and which ones were recently removed from the server?

• Which VM is the CVM of a cluster?

• Is any VM consuming the physical CPU, memory, network, and I/O resources of the AHV server, abnormally?

• Which VM is utilizing the CPU, memory, network, and I/O resources allocated to it, excessively? Which process on the VM is causing this abnormal resource consumption?