The Management Pack for NSX for vSphere collects metrics for the NSX for vSphere Logical Switch objects.

Table 1. NSX for vSphere Logical Switch Metrics
Name Category Unit Description Instanced
Egress Broadcast Packets per second Port Integer Rate of outgoing broadcast packets across all virtual machines attached to the NSX for vSphere Logical Switch. No
Egress Multicast Packets per second Port Integer Rate of outgoing multicast packets across all virtual machines attached to the NSX for vSphere Logical Switch. No
Egress Unicast Packets per second Port Integer Rate of outgoing unicast packets across all virtual machines attached to the NSX for vSphere Logical Switch. No
Egress Dropped Packets per second Port Integer Rate of outgoing packets that were dropped across all virtual machines attached to the NSX for vSphere Logical Switch. No
Egress Packets per second Port Integer Total rate of outgoing packets across all virtual machines attached to the NSX for vSphere Logical Switch. No
Egress Traffic Port KBps Outgoing network traffic across all virtual machines attached to the NSX for vSphere Logical Switch. No
Ingress Broadcast Packets per second Port Integer Rate of incoming broadcast packets across all virtual machines attached to the NSX for vSphere Logical Switch. No
Ingress Multicast Packets per second Port Integer Rate of incoming multicast packets across all virtual machines attached to the NSX for vSphere Logical Switch. No
Ingress Unicast Packets per second Port Integer Rate of incoming unicast packets across all virtual machines attached to the NSX for vSphere Logical Switch. No
Ingress Dropped Packets per second Port Integer Rate of incoming packets that were dropped across all virtual machines attached to the NSX for vSphere Logical Switch. No
Ingress Traffic Port KBps Incoming network traffic across all virtual machines attached to the NSX for vSphere Logical Switch. No
Total Packets per second Port Integer Total rate of packets across all virtual machines attached to the NSX for vSphere Logical Switch. No
Dropped Packets per second Port Integer Total rate of packets across all virtual machines attached to the NSX for vSphere Logical Switch. No
Dropped Packets Port % Percentage of packets that were dropped across all virtual machines attached to the NSX for vSphere Logical Switch. No
Throughput Port KBps Total network traffic across all virtual machines attached to the NSX for vSphere Logical Switch. No
Used Port Integer Number of logical ports currently being used by the NSX for vSphere Logical Switch. No
Capacity Port Integer Maximum number of logical ports that can be used by the NSX for vSphere Logical Switch. No
Attached VMs Summary Integer Number of virtual machines currently attached to the NSX for vSphere Logical Switch. No