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wframe
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Configuring Performance Data Collection

Greetings,

My apologies if this is basic knowledge, I am a bit new to VMware.  I am troubleshooting some issues that seem oriented around networking or storage, and am looking to expand the collection intervals for specific statistics.

For example, I am only interested in Read Latency and Average Read Requests Per Second for Storage, statistics that are currently only logged in real-time.

I see the vCenter Server Settings>Statistics>Statistical Intervals configuration screen, but is there no location to specify expanded collection intervals for specific statistical data?  This seems like it would be a handy feature, allowing in depth troubleshooting without the issues associated with collecting data for all other statistics at a specific statisticas level.

Alternatively, would there be a solution to query the vCenter server and return the raw real-time statistics via PowerCLI or some other option that could be automated to run every hour on each host?

Your insight would be greatly appreciated!

Regards,

W

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arturka
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Hi

For troubleshooting and collect only specific data use esxtop in batch mode

http://vmwaremine.com/2011/08/10/how-to-use-esxtop-or-resxtop-in-batch-mode/

good luck

VCDX77 My blog - http://vmwaremine.com
wframe
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Just stood up a vMA VM in our test environment and am getting started with resxtop. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, this seems like it will be a great resource!

On a side note, I clicked mark as helpful, and the mark as correct button disappeared.  Is this by design?

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arturka
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On a side note, I clicked mark as helpful, and the mark as correct button disappeared.  Is this by design?

Yes

But now you can click it as answered Smiley Happy

Good luck with esxtop

Artur

VCDX77 My blog - http://vmwaremine.com
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