Chapter 6. Performance-Monitoring Dashboards

This chapter demonstrates how you can use vRealize Operations and vRealize Log Insight to monitor performance. To some extent, it will help in performance troubleshooting too. This chapter deliberately separates capacity from performance in order to further drive the point that they are different.

We group the dashboards into use cases and will cover the following use cases:

  • How is the overall IaaS performance? Is any VM not getting the resources promised as per the performance SLA?
  • Is virtualization causing the problem? This dashboard lets the help desk team quickly determine where a performance problem lies when a VM owner complains.
  • Is vMotion impacting VM performance?
  • Is any VM abusing the shared IaaS? ...

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