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The Hosts view is a display of all the virtualization hosts associated with all hypervisor connections that have been added to the console. This view includes a wealth of performance counters that are retrieved directly from the hypervisor. This gives you the ability to see the performance statistics of the host directly, without having to install or run the hypervisor management program. This can be very helpful for first-level or first contact hypervisor troubleshooting.
Hosts View Column Reference
Some VMware host statistics require statistics level 3 to be defined in vCenter. For more information on setting statistics levels in vCenter, please refer to the appropriate VMware documentation.
Some XenServer statistics require XenServer v6.2 or v6.1 with the Performance Monitoring Enhancement Pack, CTX135033.
Active Memory | Sum of all memory that is actively used for all VMs, including vSphere services on the host. (VMware only) |
BIOS Release Date | Release date of the virtualization host's BIOS |
BIOS Version | BIOS version of the virtualization host |
Configured EVC Baseline | The current Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) baseline configured on hosts in this cluster |
Connection State | The Connection State of the Host Connected (0) Disconnected (1) Failed (2) |
Consumed Memory | The total consumed memory for all running virtual machines. (for VMware hosts, this includes memory used by the Service Console, the VMkernel, and vSphere services) |
CPU Cores | The total number of CPU cores in the host. |
CPU Logical Processors | Total number of logical processors in the host |
CPU Model | Model of the virtualization host's CPU |
CPU Score | Shows the worst color indication from the following monitored columns:vCPU / pCPU Ratio, CPU Usage % |
CPU Speed | Virtualization host CPU clock speed (in MHz) |
CPU Sockets | Total number of physical processors in the host. |
CPU Usage % | Actively used CPU cycles of the host as a percentage of the total available CPU cycles on the host. |
Datastore R/W IOPs | The aggregate number of IO operations on the datastore. The value displayed belongs to the datastore with the highest number of IOPs (Xen: off by default – must enable on all SRs on all hosts [xe host-data-source-record data-source=iops_total_<sr-short-uuid> uuid=<host-uuid> ] ) |
Datastore Read latency | The average amount of time for a read operation from the VMware datastore. The value displayed belongs to the datastore with the highest read latency. (VMware only) |
Datastore Read Rate | Rate of reading data from the datastore or SR. The value displayed belongs to the datastore with the highest read rate. (Xen: off by default – must enable on all SRs on all hosts [xe host-data-source-record data-source=io_throughput_read_<sr-short-uuid> uuid=<host-uuid> ] ) |
Datastore Write latency | The average amount of time for a write operation to the VMware datastore. The value displayed belongs to the datastore with the highest write latency. (VMware only) |
Datastore Write Rate | Rate of writing data to the datastore or SR. The value displayed belongs to the datastore with the highest write rate. (Xen: off by default – must enable on all SRs on all hosts [xe host-data-source-record data-source=io_throughput_write_<sr-short-uuid> uuid=<host-uuid> ] ) (VMware 4.1: requires statistics level 3) |
Disk device latency | The average amount of time, in milliseconds, to complete a SCSI command from the physical device (block storage only). The value displayed belongs to the disk with the highest latency. (VMware only) |
Disk kernel latency | The average amount of time, in milliseconds, spent by the VMkernel processing each SCSI command (block storage only). The value displayed belongs to the disk with the highest latency. (VMware only) |
Disk Score | Shows the worst color indication from the following monitored columns:Datastore R/W IOPS,Datastore Read latency,Datastore Write latency,Datastore Read Rate,Datastore Write Rate,Disk device latency,Min Free Space Datastore,Disk kernel latency,Disk Queue Depth,Storage Repository total latency |
Disk Queue Depth | Average amount of time spent in the VMkernel queue, per SCSI command, during the collection interval (block storage only). The value displayed belongs to the disk with the highest latency. (Xen: disabled by default – must enable on all SRs on all hosts [xe host-data-source-record data-source=avgqu_sz_<sr-short-uuid> uuid=<host-uuid> ] ) |
Folder Path | The location of the hypervisor in ControlUp organizational hierarchy |
Hyperthreading | Denotes whether hyperthreading is enabled on the virtualization host |
Hypervisor Build | Build number of hypervisor software currently installed on the virtualization host |
Hypervisor Platform | The hypervisor platform type for the host |
Hypervisor Version | Hypervisor version |
Installed Memory | The amount of physically installed RAM on the host. |
Maintenance Mode | Indicates whether or not the virtualization host is in maintenance mode |
Management IP | IP address of the VirtualCenter server managing the virtualization host, if any |
Max Free Space Datastore | Amount of free space available on the least occupied datastore |
Maximum Supported EVC Baseline | The highest Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) baseline supported by hosts in this cluster |
| Memory Ballooning | Amount of memory allocated by the virtual machines' memory-management driver that controls ballooning |
| Memory Compressed | Amount of memory currently compressed to minimize swapping memory pages to disk. Under normal memory stress, this value should be zero |
| Memory Shared | Total memory of powered-on virtual machines shared with other virtual machines, including amount of zero memory area |
Memory Swapping | Total amount of data that has been read into the virtual machines' memory from the swap file since the virtual machines were powered on |
Min Free Space Datastore | Amount of free space available on the most occupied datastore |
Name | The name of the virtualization host |
Network Score | Shows the worst color indication from the following monitored columns:NIC Usage,NIC dropped received packets,NIC dropped transmitted packets,NIC received packets errors,NIC transmitted packets errors |
NIC dropped received packets | Number of received packets dropped during the collection interval. (Xen: disabled by default – must enable for each NIC to track (eth0, eth1, etc) [xe host-data-source-record data-source=pif_eth0_rx_errors uuid=<host-uuid> ] ) |
NIC dropped transmitted packets | Number of transmitted packets dropped during the collection interval. (Xen: disabled by default – must enable for each NIC to track (eth0, eth1, etc) [xe host-data-source-record data-source=pif_eth0_tx_errors uuid=<host-uuid> ] ) |
NIC received packets errors | Number of inbound packets with errors. If the error counts grow rapidly you might have too much load on the system or some problem in end- to-end connectivity (including hardware) |
NIC transmitted packets errors | Number of outbound packets with errors. If the error counts grow rapidly you might have too much load on the system or some problem in end- to-end connectivity (including hardware) |
NIC Usage | Sum of data transmitted and received across all physical NIC instances connected to the host. |
NTP Servers | IP addresses of NTP Servers the virtualization host is configured to query |
NTP Status | Denotes if the NTP's service/daemon is running on the virtualization host |
Number of NICs | Number of hardware NICs installed on the virtualization host |
Power Management Policy | The name of the Power Management Policy |
Running VM Count | Number of VMs running on this host. |
Server Model |
Model of the virtualization host's hardware |
Server Service tag | Service tag of the virtualization host's hardware |
Server Vendor | Vendor of the virtualization host's hardware |
Storage Repository total latency | Average amount of time for an operation (read or write) to the XenServer SR. The value displayed belongs to the SR with the highest latency. (XenServer only) (Xen: disabled by default – must enable on all SRs on all hosts [xe host-data-source-record data-source=latency_<sr-short-uuid> uuid=<host-uuid> ] ) |
Stress Level | Stress Level is a flexible load measure which you can customize using the "Stress Settings" pane |
SSH enabled | Denotes whether the virtualization host is receiving SSH connections |
Unmanaged VM Count | Number of VMs on the host that are not managed by ControlUp. |
Uptime | Time elapsed since last system boot of the virtualization host |
vCPU/pCPU Ratio | Shows the ratio of the total number of vCPUs assigned to all VMs running on a host, to the number of physical cores |
VM Count | Number of VMs assigned to this host. |
RAM Score | Shows the worst color indication from the following monitored columns:Consumed Memory,Active Memory,Memory Balooning,Memory Compressed,Memory Shared,Memory Swapping |
Objects in the Hypervisors folder
All objects (pools, datacenters, clusters, etc) in the Hypervisors branch of the organization tree behave as folders for the purpose of organizing the view of hosts and computers. As such, you can focus on any object in order to view only the hosts, computers, and other items, just as you can do in other ControlUp folders.
Folders in the Hypervisors branch of the organization tree exist to organize or segregate the hypervisor connections, if desired.
Drill down behavior for hosts
When you are in the Hosts View, if you double-click on a host it shows the VMs that are guests on that host. The list of computers shown varies slightly, depending on which hypervisor you are connected to.
- In a VMware environment, you will see all of the VMs associated with that host, whether or not they are powered on, just as you would in the vSphere client.
- In a XenServer environment, you will see VMs running on that host as well as VMs with an affinity for that host, whether or not they are powered on. VMs that are powered off and have no host affinity will not be seen when double-clicking on a host just as you would see in XenCenter, where they belong to the pool itself and not a host. In order to see all of the VMs in a XenServer pool regardless of power state or affinity, focus on the XenServer pool, and choose the Computers View without double-clicking on the Xen hosts in that pool.
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