I am looking for some practical Super Metric examples.
Thanks,
-MattG
Hello Matt-G,
Please see the below link for Super metrics usage. Check out bothe part 1 and part 2 .
http://www.batchworks.de/using-super-metrics-to-monitor-cpu-ready-part1/
Thanks
VK
Applications and the associated Tiers only have vCops System Generated metrics. If I wanted to see Total Disk Latency for VMs in a App or App Tier, would this work? If so, would this be a practical use of Super Metrics?
Thanks,
-MattG
Hi Matt,
I havd a quick look and it should work.
Regrading more practical use cases...I am building up a few use cases and will blog around it. I have noted yorus down as a example.
Other use cases would be to use the vCD adaptor and using the vCD construct to create super metric.
Hugo,
Just tried it with an App Tier and it works. I will create for the Application using the looping next.
Thanks,
-MattG
The Best use of a super metric is across a tier or an App. The app may be too broad depending on how many VM's but an app tier is a good one.
CPU AVG, etc would be good across these tiers. Also stats for the cluster where you cant get the metric natively would be another good use.
Mike
Hi Matt,
Here is an example. This resonates well with my customers:
You have convinced your CIO to virtualise the remaining 50% of the servers.
Your CIO needs you to prove, supported by performance charts, that the platform has served every VM well, meeting the SLA in the past 1 quarter.
You have 500 VM on 50 ESXi, 8 clusters, 40 datastores, 5 RDM.
You must prove that:
How would you deliver that?
To deliver the above, you need to create quite a number of super metric. One would be Max (Max (VM CPU Contention), Max (Host CPU Contention).
You can either apply them at the cluster level or datacenter level.
Hope that helps!
e1
Hi Iwan RahabokIwan
If I want to create a super metric Tier 1 cluster SLA: 2% CPU Contention, 0 RAM Contention, 10 ms disk latency, 0 drop packets. as you wrote. Can you please write thissuper metric.
If I wrote max(${adapterkind=VMWARE, resourcekind=VirtualMachine, attribute=cpu|usage_average, depth=2}) where can I put the 2% ?
Thank you
All the SLA super metric has in it is the SLA you want example 2
With that in the SM you can add it to a trend widget to have a consent line at 2. That is the only way to get a custom flat line in a trend graph
The below is using a SM just with 1 in it to provide the purple line
This is what i mean
Check out Iwan's post Operationalize SDDC program