From the eBook - Second edition.
Cover ; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; Foreword; About the Author; Acknowledgments; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Part 1; Chapter 1: VM
It Is Not What You Think! ; Chapter 2: Software-Defined Data Centers ; Chapter 3: SDDC Management ; Chapter 4: Performance Monitoring ; Chapter 5: Capacity Monitoring ; Part 2; Chapter 6: Performance-Monitoring Dashboards ; Chapter 7: Capacity-Monitoring Dashboards ; Chapter 8: Specific-Purpose Dashboards ; Chapter 9: Infrastructure Monitoring Using Blue Medora ; Chapter 10: Application Monitoring using Blue Medora
Part 3Chapter 11: SDDC Key Counters ; Chapter 12: CPU Counters ; Chapter 13: Memory Counters ; Chapter 14: Storage Counters ; Chapter 15: Network Counters ; Index; Our journey into the virtual world; Not all virtualizations are equal; Virtual Machine
it is not what you think!; Physical server versus Virtual Machine; Summary; The software-defined data center; SDDC versus HDDC; Summary; What you manage has changed; Management changes in SDDC; The restaurant analogy; Contention versus utilization; Performance and capacity management; Primary counters for monitoring; Who uses which dashboards
How many dashboards do I need?Summary; A day in the life of a VMware Admin; What exactly is performance?; Performance versus capacity; Performance SLA; VDI SLA; Summary; Some well-meaning but harmful advice; A shift in capacity management; SDDC capacity planning; When is a peak not a true peak?; Putting it all together; VDI capacity planning; VM rightsizing; Summary; What is the overall IaaS performance?; Are you serving my VM well?; Is vMotion causing performance hit?; Is any VM abusing the shared IaaS?; Summary; Tier 1 compute; Tier 2 and 3 compute; Storage; Network; Putting it all together
Enhancements to the dashboardRightsizing VMs; Summary; Dashboards for the big screen; Monitoring ESXi host temperature; Dashboards for the storage team; Dashboards for the network team; Dashboards for the VDI team; Summary; Overview; NetApp storage; F5 BIG-IP; Cisco Nexus switches; Cisco UCS; Lenovo Compute; Dell PowerEdge servers; Summary; Overview; Microsoft SQL Server; Oracle Enterprise Manager; Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp; IBM Tivoli; IBM DB2; SAP HANA; Summary; Compute; Storage; Network; Metric groups; Counters in vSphere and vRealize; Summary; CPU counters at the VM level
CPU counters at the ESXi levelCPU counters at the cluster level; CPU counters at higher levels; Summary; Memory
not such a simple matter; Memory counters at the Guest OS level; Memory counters at the VM level; Memory counters at the ESXi level; Memory counters at cluster level; Memory counters at higher levels; Summary; Multilayer storage; Storage counters at the VM level; Storage counters at the ESXi level; Storage counters at the cluster level; Storage counters at the datastore level; Storage counters at the datastore cluster level; Storage counters at higher levels; Capacity monitoring
