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Gabrie1
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See portgroup usage over all hosts

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Currently all hosts have 2 nics for production and 2 nics for management, vmotion and backup. We would like to combine them into one big set in which 4 nics do production, vmotion, management and backup. But we are concerned about network usage at night when the backups run. So I would like to get an insight on how all the portgroups / VLANs are utilized during day and night and maybe even the physical host nics. Is there an easy way to get a nice graph of that?

Gabrie

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mark_j
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Virtual switch (vSS/vDS) portgroup-level counters aren't available [yet].

What you 'can' get now, is the class of traffic as defined in vCenter providing you're leveraging it. So FT, iSCSI, VM, NFS, vMotion, HBR.

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mark_j
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Virtual switch (vSS/vDS) portgroup-level counters aren't available [yet].

What you 'can' get now, is the class of traffic as defined in vCenter providing you're leveraging it. So FT, iSCSI, VM, NFS, vMotion, HBR.

If you find this or any other answer useful please mark the answer as correct or helpful.
William22
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Hi

Welcome to the communities.

For that you may need manageenginee or similiar produt to monitor the each NIC traffic.

less /var/log/vmkernel   

  

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vCOps can monitor the pnics on a hosts, but that's not what the question was. The question was can we monitor traffic on a per-virtual portgroup basis... virtual.. not physical. This is a common converged I/O expectation/question, which I can certainly respect, and I would agree that yes, you absolutely would want to monitor your traffic types. Currently the only way to do this by network class is via the built-in vCenter classes I mentioned in my prior reply.

You cited other products, however I haven't seen any other monitoring product offer this ability since the necessary portgroup-specific counter/metrics simply aren't exposed in vCenter for this. Again.. [yet].

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