Primary counters for monitoring
vSphere 6 comes with many counters, many more than what a physical server provides. There are new counters that do not have a physical equivalent, such as memory ballooning, CPU latency, and vSphere replication. In addition, some counters have the same name as their physical-world counterparts but behave differently in vSphere. Memory usage is a common one, resulting in confusion among VMware system administrators. For those counters that are similar to their physical-world counterparts, vSphere may use different units, such as milliseconds instead of percentage.
vSphere has many objects. It is important that you pick the right counters for each object. In Chapter 10, Application Monitoring Using Blue Medora, to ...
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