vLAN statistics in vCenter

[TheVMinator]

Is it possible to get statistics on statistics like throughput and latency per an individual vLAN in vCenter, assuming that vLAN is tagged to one and only one port group?

[LucD · Accepted solution]

Afaik, you can have network related metrics per pNIC (on the ESXi node level) and vNIC (on the VM level).

Since a VM's vNIC connects to a portgroup, and a portgroup is connected with a specific VLAN (i'm talking VSS here), you could follow that path.

In summary:

• get all VMs
• get network metrics for all VMs
• group the returned counters per portgroup
• summarise/average to get the numbers per VLAN

[TheVMinator]

Ok great input - thanks!