vCenter performance charts

VMware provides another great tool to monitor and troubleshoot vSphere host performance using its charts. These charts can be very helpful and offer user-friendly ways to diagnose vSphere host problems. You can easily create new charts, customize metrics, customize the time, and save the settings. Alternatively, VMware has provided built-in general purpose options for the charts to use the existing settings. The chart does not only offer real-time monitoring but also presents information about the past day, week, month, or year. In this section, we will go through the following topics briefly:

  • Creating charts
  • Configuring metrics
  • Configuring logging level for performance

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