Network counters at higher levels

As covered earlier, vCenter does not provide information for the network at these levels (data center, vCenter, and World). vRealize Operations provides a set of counters for the network at these levels, which are useful for overall visibility. This table lists the key counters. The only exception is that the packet dropped information is not available at the World level. I have left the table cell blank for ease of comparison. The table for vRealize Operations cluster counters is given as follows:

Object

Purpose

Counters

Roll up

Data center

Contention

Packet Dropped (%)

Average

Data center

Utilization

Usage Rate (KBps)

Summation

Data center

Utilization

Workload (%)

Average

vCenter

Contention ...

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