VMware Aria Operations collects configuration, disk space, CPU use, disk, memory, network, power, and summary metrics for cluster compute resources.

Cluster Compute Resource metrics include capacity and badge metrics. See definitions in:

Cluster Metrics for ROI Dashboard

Cluster metrics provide information about the metrics in ROI dashboard.
Metric Name Description
Total Number Of Reclaimable Hosts This metric displays the total number of reclaimable hosts across all vCenters.

Key: metric=cost|reclaimableHostCost

Total Reclaimable Host Cost This metric displays the reclaimable host cost based on the recommended size.

Key: cost|reclaimableHostCost

Configuration Metrics for Cluster Compute Resources

Configuration metrics provide information about configuration settings.

Metric Name Description
Configuration|DAS Configuration|Admission Control Enabled DAS configuration admission control enabled.

Key: configuration|dasconfig|AdministrationControlEnabled

Configuration|DAS Configuration|Active Admission Control Policy DAS configuration active admission control policy.

Key: configuration|dasconfig|activeAdministrationControlPolicy

Configuration|DRS Configuration|Affinity Rules Affinity rules for DRS configuration.

Key: configuration|DRSconfiguration|affinity rules

Configuration|DRS Configuration|Tolerance Imbalance Threshold Displays the tolerance imbalance threshold for DRS configuration.

Key: configuration|DRSconfiguration|ToleranceimbalanceThreshold

Configuration|DRS Configuration|Default DRS behavior Displays the default DRS configuration behavior.

Key: configuration|DRSconfiguration|DefaultDRSbehaviour

Configuration|DRS Configuration|Idle Consumed Memory Displays the idle memory consumed by DRS configuration.

Key: configuration|DRSconfiguration|IdleConsumedMemory

Configuration|DRS Configuration| DRS vMotion Rate Displays the vMotion rate for the DRS configuration.

Key: configuration|DRSconfiguration|DRSvMotion Rate

Configuration|DPM Configuration|Default DPM behavior Displays the default behavior for the DPM configuration.

Key: configuration|DPMconfiguration|DefaultDPMbehaviour

Configuration|DPM Configuration|DPM Enabled Displays whehter the DPM Configuration is enabled or not.

Key: configuration|DPMConfiguration|DPMEnabled

Configuration|Failover Level DAS configuration failover level.

Key: configuration|dasconfig|failoverLevel

Configuration|Active Admission Control Policy DAS configuration active admission control policy.

Key: configuration|dasconfig|activeAdministrationControlPolicy

Configuration|CPU Failover Resources Percent Percent CPU failover resources for DAS configuration admission control policy.

Key: configuration|dasconfig|adminissionControlPolicy|cpuFailoverResourcesPercent

Configuration|Memory Failover Resources Percent Percent memory failover resources for DAS configuration admission control policy.

Key: configuration|dasconfig|adminissionControlPolicy|memoryFailoverResourcesPercent

Disk Space Metrics for Cluster Compute Resources

Disk space metrics provide information about disk space use.

Metric Name Description
DiskSpace|Snapshot Space Displays the disk space used by the snapshot.

Key: DiskSpace|snapshot space

Diskspace|Virtual machine used (GB) Space used by virtual machine files in gigabytes.

Key: diskspace|used

Diskspace|Total disk space used Total disk space used on all datastores visible to this object.

Key: diskspace|total_usage

Diskspace|Total disk space Total disk space on all datastores visible to this object.

Key: diskspace|total_capacity

Diskspace|Total provisioned disk space Total provisioned disk space on all datastores visible to this object.

Key: diskspace|total_provisioned

Diskspace|Virtual Disk Used (GB) Space used by virtual disks in gigabytes.

Key: diskspace|diskused

Diskspace|Snapshot Space (GB) Space used by snapshots in gigabytes.

Key: diskspace|snapshot

Diskspace|Shared Used (GB) Shared used space in gigabytes.

Key: diskspace|shared

Diskspace|Utilization (GB) Storage space used on the connected vSphere Datastores.

Key: diskspace|total_usage

Diskspace|Total Capacity (GB) Total storage space available on the connected vSphere datastores.

Key: diskspace|total_capacity

CPU Usage Metrics for Cluster Compute Resources

CPU usage metrics provide information about CPU use.

Metric Name Description
CPU|Allocation|Usable Capacity after HA and Buffer (vCPUs) This metric shows the total capacity taking into consideration the over-commit ratio and after subtracting the CPU resources needed for HA and reserved buffer.

Key: cpu|alloc|usableCapacity

CPU|Capacity Usage This metric shows the percentage of the capacity used.

Key: cpu|capacity_usagepct_average

CPU|CPU Contention (%) This metric is an indicator of the overall contention for CPU resources that occurs across the workloads in the cluster. When contention occurs, it means that some of the virtual machines are not immediately getting the CPU resources they are requesting.

Use this metric to identify when a lack of CPU resources might be causing performance issues in the cluster.

This metric is the sum of the CPU contention across all hosts in the cluster averaged over two times the number of physical CPUs in the cluster to account for hyper-threading. CPU contention takes into account:
  • CPU Ready
  • CPU Co-stop
  • Power management
  • Hyper threading

This metric is more accurate than CPU Ready since it takes into account CPU Co-stop and Hyper threading.

When using this metric, the number should be lower than the performance you expect. If you expect performance at 10%, then the number should be lower than 10%.

Since this value is averaged across all hosts in the cluster, you might find that some hosts have a higher CPU contention while others are lower. To ensure that vSphere spreads out the running workloads across hosts, consider enabling a fully automated DRS in the cluster.

Key: cpu|capacity_contentionPct

CPU|Demand|Usable Capacity after HA and Buffer (MHz) This metric shows the total capacity after subtracting the CPU resources needed for HA and reserved buffer.

Key: cpu|demand|usableCapacity

CPU|Demand (%) This metric is an indicator of the overall demand for CPU resources by the workloads in the cluster.

It shows the percentage of CPU resources that all the virtual machines might use if there were no CPU contention or CPU limits set. It represents the average active CPU load in the past five minutes.

Key: cpu|demandPct

CPU|Demand (MHz) Sum of CPU utilization of all virtual machines on this cluster, including limits and VM overhead.

Key: cpu|demandmhz

CPU|Number of CPU Sockets Number of CPU sockets.

Key: cpu|numpackages

CPU|Overall CPU Contention Overall CPU contention in milliseconds.

Key: cpu|capacity_contention

CPU|Host Provisioned Capacity Provisioned CPU capacity in megahertz.

Key: cpu|capacity_provisioned

CPU|Provisioned CPUs Number of Physical CPUs (Cores).

Key: cpu|corecount_provisioned

CPU|Usage (MHz) Average CPU use in megahertz.

Key: cpu|usagemhz_average

CPU|Demand CPU Demand.

Key: cpu|demand_average

CPU|Overhead Amount of CPU overhead.

Key: cpu|overhead_average

CPU|Demand without overhead Value of demand excluding any overhead.

Key: cpu|demand_without_overhead

CPU|Provisioned Capacity Provisioned Capacity (MHz).

Key: cpu|vm_capacity_provisioned

CPU|Number of hosts stressed Number of hosts stressed.

Key: cpu|num_hosts_stressed

CPU|Stress Balance Factor Stress Balance Factor.

Key: cpu|stress_balance_factor

CPU|Lowest Provider Capacity Remaining Lowest Provider Capacity Remaining.

Key: cpu|min_host_capacity_remaining

CPU|Workload Balance Factor Workload Balance Factor.

Key: cpu|workload_balance_factor

CPU|Highest Provider Workload Highest Provider Workload.

Key: cpu|max_host_workload

CPU|Host workload Max-Min Disparity Difference of Max and Min host workload in the container.

Key: cpu|host_workload_disparity

CPU|Host stress Max-Min Disparity Difference of Max and Min host stress in the container.

Key: cpu|host_stress_disparity

CPU|Total Capacity (MHz) Total CPU resources configured on the descendant ESXi hosts.

Key: cpu|capacity_provisioned

CPU|Usable Capacity (MHz) The usable CPU resources that are available for the virtual machines after considering reservations for vSphere High Availability (HA) and other vSphere services.

Key: cpu|haTotalCapacity_average

Disk Metrics for Cluster Compute Resources

Disk metrics provide information about disk use.

Metric Name Description
Disk|Total IOPS Average number of commands issued per second during the collection interval.

Key: disk|commandsAveraged_average

Disk|Total Latency (ms) Average amount of time taken for a command from the perspective of the guest operating system. This metric is the sum of the Kernel Command Latency and Physical Device Command Latency metrics.

Key: disk|totalLatency_average

Disk|Read Latency (ms) Average amount of time for a read operation from the virtual disk. The total latency is the sum of Kernel latency and device latency.

Key: disk|totalReadLatency_average

Disk|Write Latency (ms) The average amount of time taken for a read from the perspective of a Guest OS. This is the sum of Kernel Read Latency and Physical Device Read Latency.

Key: disk|totalWriteLatency_averag

Disk|Read IOPS Average number of read commands issued per second during the collection interval.

Key: disk|numberReadAveraged_averag

Disk|Total Throughput (KBps) Average of the sum of the data read and written for all the disk instances of the host or virtual machine.

Key: disk|usage_average

Disk|Write IOPS Average number of write commands issued per second during the collection interval.

Key: disk|numberWriteAveraged_average

Disk|Read Requests Amount of data read from the disk during the collection interval.

Key: disk|read_average

Disk|Write Requests Amount of data written to the disk during the collection interval.

Key: disk|write_average

Disk|Total Queued Outstanding operations Sum of queued operation and outstanding operations.

Key: disk|sum_queued_oio

Disk|Max Observed OIO Max observed outstanding IO for a disk.

Key: disk|max_observed

Memory Metrics for Cluster Compute Resources

Memory metrics provide information about memory use and allocation.

Metric Name Description
Mem|Active Write (KB) Active writes in kilobytes.

Key: mem|activewrite_average

Mem|Compressed (KB) Average compression in kilobytes.

Key: mem|compressed_average

Mem|Compression Rate (KBps) Average compression rate in kilobytes.

Key: mem|compressionRate_average

Mem|Consumed (KB) Amount of host memory consumed by the virtual machine for guest memory.

Key: mem|consumed_average

Mem|Contention (%) This metric is an indicator of the overall contention for memory resources that occurs across the workloads in the cluster. When contention occurs, it means that some of the VMs are not immediately getting the memory resources that they are requesting.

Use this metric to identify when lack of memory resources might be causing performance issues in the cluster.

Key: mem|host_contentionPct

Mem|Contention (KB) Contention in kilobytes.

Key: mem|host_contention

Mem|Decompression Rate (KBps Decompression rate in kilobytes.

Key: mem|decompressionRate_average

Mem|Granted (KB) Amount of memory available for use.

Key: mem|granted_average

Mem|Guest Active (KB) Amount of memory that is actively used.

Key: mem|active_average

Mem|Heap (KB) Amount of memory allocated for heap.

Key: mem|heap_average

Mem|Heap Free (KB) Free space in the heap.

Key: mem|heapfree_average

Mem|Balloon This metric shows the amount of memory currently used by the virtual machine memory control. It is only defined at the VM level.

Key: mem|vmmemctl_average

Mem|VM Overhead (KB) Memory overhead reported by host.

Key: mem|overhead_average

Mem|Provisioned Memory (KB) Provisioned memory in kilobytes.

Key: mem|host_provisioned

Mem|Reserved Capacity (KB) Reserved capacity in kilobytes.

Key: mem|reservedCapacity_average

Mem|Shared (KB) Amount of shared memory.

Key: mem|shared_average

Mem|Shared Common (KB) Amount of shared common memory.

Key: mem|sharedcommon_average

Mem|Swap In (KB) Amount of memory that is swapped in for the service console.

Key: mem|swapin_average

Mem|Swap In Rate (KBps) Rate at which memory is swapped from disk into active memory during the interval.

Key: mem|swapinRate_average

Mem|Swap Out (KB) Amount of memory that is swapped out for the service console.

Key: mem|swapout_average

Mem|Swap Out Rate (KBps) Rate at which memory is being swapped from active memory into disk during the current interval.

Key: mem|swapoutRate_average

Mem|Swap Used (KB) Amount of memory used for swap space.

Key: mem|swapused_average

Mem|Total Capacity (KB) Total capacity in kilobytes.

Key: mem|totalCapacity_average

Mem|Reserved (KB) Amount of unreserved memory.

Key: mem|unreserved_average

Mem|Usable Memory (KB) Usable memory in kilobytes.

Key: mem|host_usable

Mem|Usage/Usable Percent memory used.

Key: mem|host_usagePct

Mem|Host Usage (KB) Memory use in kilobytes.

Key: mem|host_usage

Mem|Machine Demand Memory Machine Demand in KB.

Key: mem|host_demand

Mem|ESX System Usage Memory usage by the VMkernel and ESX user-level services.

Key: mem|host_systemUsage

Mem|Usage (%) This metric shows the portion of the total memory in all hosts in the cluster that is being used.

This metric is the sum of memory consumed across all hosts in the cluster divided by the sum of physical memory across all hosts in the cluster.

∑ memory consumed on all hosts

- X 100%

∑ physical memory on all hosts

Mem|Usage (KB) Memory currently in use as a percentage of total available memory.

Key: mem|usage_average

Mem|VM kernel Usage (KB) Amount of memory that the VM kernel uses.

Key: mem|sysUsage_average

Mem|Zero (KB) Amount of memory that is all 0.

Key: mem|zero_average

Mem|Number of Hosts Stressed Number of hosts stressed.

Key: mem|num_hosts_stressed

Mem|Stress Balance Factor Stress balance factor.

Key: mem|stress_balance_factor

Mem|Lowest Provider Capacity Remaining Lowest provider capacity remaining.

Key: mem|min_host_capacity_remaining

Mem|Workload Balance Factor Workload balance factor.

Key: mem|workload_balance_factor

Mem|Highest Provider Workload Highest provider workload.

Key: mem|max_host_workload

Mem|Host workload Max-Min Disparity Difference of Max and Min host workload in the container.

Key: mem|host_workload_disparity

Mem|Host stress Max-Min Disparity Difference of Max and Min host stress in the container.

Key: mem|host_stress_disparity

Mem|Utilization (KB) Memory utilization level based on the descendant virtual machines utilization. Includes reservations, limits, and overhead to run the Virtual Machines.

Key: mem|total_need

Mem|Total Capacity (KB) Total physical memory configured on descendant ESXi hosts.

Key: mem|host_provisioned

Mem|Usable Capacity (KB) The usable memory resources available for the virtual machines after considering reservations for vSphere HA and other vSphere services.

Key: mem|haTotalCapacity_average

Network Metrics for Cluster Compute Resources

Network metrics provide information about network performance.

Metric Name Description
Net|Data Receive Rate (KBps) Average amount of data received per second.

Key: net|received_average

Net|Data Transmit Rate (KBps) Average amount of data transmitted per second.

Key: net|transmitted_average

Net|Packets Dropped Number of packets dropped in the performance interval.

Key: net|dropped

Net|Packets Dropped (%) Percentage of packets dropped.

Key: net|droppedPct

Net|Packets Received Number of packets received in the performance interval.

Key: net|packetsRx_summation

Net|Packets Transmitted Number of packets transmitted in the performance interval.

Key: net|packetsTx_summation

Net|Received Packets Dropped Number of received packets dropped in the performance interval.

Key: net|droppedRx_summation

Net|Transmitted Packets Dropped Number of transmitted packets dropped in the performance interval.

Key: net|droppedTx_summation

Net|Total Throughput (KBps) The sum of the data transmitted and received for all the NIC instances of the host or virtual machine.

Key: net|usage_average

Network|Error Packets Displays the total number of error packets (transmitted and received) from all the ESXi in the cluster within a time interval of 20 seconds.

Key: Network|Error Packets

Datastore Metrics for Cluster Compute Resources

Datastore metrics provide information about Datastore use.

Metric Name Description
Datastore|TotalThroughput Displays the total throughput for the datastore.

Key: datastore|thorughput

Datastore|Outstanding IO requests OIO for datastore.

Key: datastore|demand_oio

Datastore|Read IOPS Average number of read commands issued per second during the collection interval.

Key: datastore|numberReadAveraged_average

Datastore|Write IOPS Average number of write commands issued per second during the collection interval.

Key: datastore|numberWriteAveraged_average

Datastore|Read Throughput (KBps) Amount of data read in the performance interval.

Key: datastore|read_average

Datastore|Write Throughput (KBps) Amount of data written to disk in the performance interval.

Key: datastore|write_average

Datastore|Read Latency Average amount of time taken for a read operation from the datastore.

Key: datastore|ReadLatency

Datastore|Write Latency Average amount of time taken for a write operation from the datastore.

Key: datastore|WriteLatency

Datastore|Max VM Disk Latency Maximum amount of time taken to read or write data from a virtual machine.

Key: datastore|MaxVMDiskLatency

Datastore|Outstanding IO Requests (OIOs) This metric displays the outstanding datastore IO requests.

Key: datastore|OutstandingIORequests

Datastore|Host SCSI Disk Partition This metric displays the datastore host scsi partition.

Key: datastore|HostSCSIDiskPartition

Devices|Command Aborted The metric lists the stopped device commands.

Key: devices|CommandAborted

Cluster Services Metrics for Cluster Compute Resources

Cluster Services metrics provide information about cluster services.

Metric Name Description
Cluster Services|Total Imbalance Total imbalance in cluster services

Key: clusterServices|total_imbalance

ClusterServices|Effective CPU Resources (MHz) VMware DRS effective CPU resources available.

Key: clusterServices|effectivecpu_average

ClusterServices|Effective Memory Resources (KB) VMware DRS effective memory resources available.

Key: clusterServices|effectivemem_average

Cluster Services|DRS Initiated vMotion Count clusterServices|number_drs_vmotion

Power Metrics for Cluster Compute Resources

Power metrics provide information about power use.

Metric Name Description
Power|Energy (Joule) Energy use in joules.

Key: power|energy_summation

Power|Power (Watt) Average power use in watts.

Key: power|power_average

Power|Power Cap (Watt) Average power capacity in watts.

Key: power|powerCap_average

Summary Metrics for Cluster Compute Resources

Summary metrics provide information about overall performance.

Metric Name Description
Summary|Number of Running Hosts Number of running hosts.

Key: summary|number_running_hosts

Summary|Number of Running VMs This metric shows the total number of VMs running on all hosts in the cluster.

Key: summary|number_running_vms

Summary|Number of vMotions This metric shows the number of vMotions that occurred during the last collection cycle.

When using this metric, look for a low number which indicates that the cluster might serve its VMs. A vMotion can impact VM performance during the stun time.

Key: summary|number_vmotion

Summary|Number of Hosts Total number of hosts.

Key: summary|total_number_hosts

Summary|Total Number of VMs Total number of virtual machines.
Note: This shows the total number of VMs excluding VM templates under the datastore.

Key: summary|total_number_vms

Summary|Total Number of Datastores Total number of datastores.

Key: summary|total_number_datastores

Summary|Number of VCPUs on Powered On VMs Number of virtual CPUs on powered-on virtual machines.

Key: summary|number_running_vcpus

Summary|Average Running VM Count per Running Host Average number of running virtual machines per running host.

Key: summary|avg_vm_density

Summary|Cluster Availability (%) Percentage of hosts powered-on in the cluster.

Key: summary|cluster_availability

Summary|Datastore Displays the status of the datastore.

Key: summary|datastore

Summary|Type Displays the datastore type.

Key: summary|type

Summary|Is Local Displays whether the datastore is local or not.

Key: summary|Islocal

Summary|Number of VM Templates Number of VM templates.

Key: summary|number_vm_templates

Summary|Number of Pods Number of pods.
Note: This is published if the cluster is Workload Management enabled or there are pods under the cluster.

Key: summary|total_number_pods

Summary|Number of Namespaces Number of namespaces.
Note: This is published if the cluster is Workload Management enabled or there are namespaces under the cluster.

Key: summary|numberNamespaces

Summary|Number Kubernetes Clusters Number of Kuberntes clusters.
Note: This is published if the cluster is Workload Management enabled or there are Kuberntes clusters under the cluster.

Key: summary|numberKubernetesClusters

Summary|Number of Developer Managed VMs Number of developer managed VMs.
Note: This is published if the cluster is Workload Management enabled or there are developer managed VMs under the cluster.

Key: summary|numberDeveloperManagedVMs

Namespaces|Config Status Workload Management configuration status.
Note: This is published if the cluster is Workload Management enabled.

Key: namespaces|configStatus

Namespaces|Kubernetes Status Kubernetes status.
Note: This is published if the cluster is Workload Management enabled.

Key: namespaces|kuberntesStatus

Reclaimable Metrics for Cluster Compute Resources

Reclaimable metrics provide information about reclaimable resources.

Metric Name Description
Idle VMs|CPU (vCPUs) Number of reclaimable vCPUs of Idle VMs within the cluster.

Key: reclaimable|idle_vms|cpu

Idle VMs|Disk Space (GB) Reclaimable disk space of Idle VMs within the cluster.

Key: reclaimable|idle_vms|disksapce

Idle VMs|Memory (KB) Reclaimable memory of Idle VMs within the cluster.

Key: reclaimable|idle_vms|mem

Idle VMs|Potential Savings Potential saving after reclamation of resources of Idle VMs within the cluster.

Key: reclaimable|idle_vms|cost

Powered Off VMs|Disk Space (GB) Reclaimable disk space of Powered Off VMs within the cluster.

Key: reclaimable|poweredOff_vms| diskspace

Powered Off VMs|Potential Savings Potential saving after reclamation of resources of Powered Off VMs within the cluster.

Key: reclaimable|poweredOff_vms|cost

VM Snapshots|Disk Space (GB) Reclaimable disk space of VM Snapshots within the cluster.

Key: reclaimable| vm_snapshots | diskspace

VM Snapshots |Potential Savings Potential saving after reclamation of VM Snapshots within the cluster.

Key: reclaimable| vm_snapshots |cost

Cost Metrics for Cluster Compute Resources

Cost metrics provide information about the cost.

Metric Name Description
Cluster CPU Base Rate Base rate for Cluster CPU calculated by dividing the monthly total cluster CPU cost by cluster CPU utilization % and CPU cluster capacity (gHZ).

Key:cost|cpuBaseRate

Cluster CPU Utilization (%) Expected CPU utilization that is set by the user in cluster cost page.

Key:cost|cpuExpectedUtilizationPct

Cluster Memory Base Rate Cluster memory base rate calculated by dividing the monthly total cluster memory cost by cluster memory utilization % and memory cluster capacity (GB).

Key: cost|memoryBaseRate

Cluster Memory Utilization (%) Expected memory utilization that is set by the user in cluster cost page.

Key: cost|memoryExpectedUtilizationPct

Monthly Cluster Allocated Cost Monthly cluster allocated cost calculated by subtracting the monthly cluster unallocated cost from the monthly cluster total cost.

Key: cost|allocatedCost

Monthly Cluster Total Cost Fully loaded compute cost of all hosts underneath the cluster.

Key: cost|totalCost

Monthly Cluster Unallocated Cost Monthly cluster unallocated cost calculated by subtracting the monthly cluster allocated cost from the monthly cluster total cost.

Key: cost|unAllocatedCost

Monthly Total Cluster CPU Cost Cost attributed to the cluster CPU from monthly cluster total cost.

Key: cost|totalCpuCost

Monthly Total Cluster Memory Cost Cost attributed to the cluster memory from monthly cluster total cost.

Key: cost|totalMemoryCost

MTD Cluster CPU Utilization (GHz) Month to date CPU utilization of the cluster.

Key: cost|cpuActualUtilizationGHz

MTD Cluster Memory Utilization (GB) Month to date memory utilization of the cluster.

Key: cost|memoryActualUtilizationGB

Monthly Cluster Allocated Cost (Currency) The monthly allocated cost of all VMs in a cluster.

cost|clusterAllocatedCost

Cost|Allocation|Monthly Cluster Unallocated Cost (Currency) The monthly unallocated is calculated by subtracting the monthly allocated cost from the cluster's cost.

cost|clusterUnAllocatedCost

Aggregated Daily Total Cost Daily aggregate daily total cost of the deleted VM present in the host system.

Key: Cost|aggregatedDailyTotalCost

Aggregated Deleted VM Daily Total Cost Daily aggregate cost of the deleted VM present in the host system.

Key: Cost|aggregatedDeletedVmDailyTotalCost

Profiles Metrics for Cluster Compute Resources

Profiles metrics provide information about the profile specific capacity.

Metric Name Description
Profiles|Capacity Remaining Profile (Average) The capacity remaining in terms of fitting the average consumer.

Key: Profiles|capacityRemainingProfile_<profile uuid>

Profiles|Capacity Remaining Profile (<custom profile name>) Published for custom profiles enabled from policy on Cluster Compute Resource.

Key: Profiles|capacityRemainingProfile_<profile uuid>

Capacity Allocation Metrics for Cluster Compute Resources

Capacity allocation metrics provide information about the allotment of capacity, see Capacity Analytics Generated Metrics.

Virtual Machine Operations Metrics for Clusters

VM operations metrics provide information about the actions performed on VMs. The following are some important points you must know about VM operation metrics for clusters.
  • VM operations metrics is not collected for custom data centers.
  • If you edit a VM settings and do not perform any action, still it is considered as VM reconfigure operation.
  • During Revert Snapshot, VMs are powered-off, but this operation is not counted under VM Power-off metric.
  • Adding ESXi with VMs is not counted under VM Create metric.
  • Removing ESXi with VMs is not coutned under VM Remove metric.
  • VM hardstop operation is not counted under VM Power Off metric.
Metric Name Description
Inventory
VM Clone This metric displays the number of clone operations on the virtual machine.

Key: Inventory|VM Clone

VM Create This metric displays the number of create operations on the virtual machine.

Key: Inventory|VM Create

VM Delete This metric displays the number of delete operations on the virtual machine.

Key: Inventory|VM Delete

VM Reconfigure This metric displays the number of reconfigure operations on the virtual machine.

Key: Inventory|VM Reconfigure

VM Register This metric displays the number of register operations on the virtual machine.

Key: Inventory|VM Register

VM Template Deploy This metric displays the number templates deployed on the virtual machine.

Key: Inventory|VM Template Deploy

VM Unregister This metric displays the number of unregister operations on the virtual machine.

Key: Inventory|VM Unregister

Location
Storage vMotion This metric displays the number of migrations with vMotion (datastore change operations for Powered-on VMs).

Key: Location|Storage vMotion

VM Datastore Change (powered-off VMs) This metric displays the number of datastore change operations, for powered-off and suspended virtual machines.

Key: Location|VM Datastore Change (powered-off VMs)

VM Host and Datastore Change (powered-off VMs) This metric displays the number of host and datastore change operations, for powered-off and suspended virtual machines.

Key: Location|VM Host and Datastore Change (powered-off VMs)

VM Host and Datastore Change (powered-on VMs) This metric displays the number of host and datastore change operations, for powered-on and suspended virtual machines.

Key: Location|VM Host and Datastore Change (powered-on VMs)

VM Host Change (powered-off VMs) This metric displays the number of host change operations, for powered-off and suspended virtual machines.

Key: Location|VM Host Change (powered-off VMs)

vMotion This metric displays the number of migrations with vMotion (host change operations for powered-on VMs).

Key: Location|vMotion

State
VM Guest Reboot This metric displays the number of reboot operations on the virtual machine guest.

Key: State|VM Guest Reboot

VM Guest Shutdown This metric displays the number of shutdown operations on the virtual machine guest.

Key: State|VM Guest Shutdown

VM Power Off This metric displays the number of power-off operations on the virtual machine.

Key: State|VM Power Off

VM Power On This metric displays the number of power-on operations on the virtual machine.

Key: State|VM Power On

VM Reset This metric displays the number of reset operations on the virtual machine guest.

Key: State|VM Reset

VM Standby Guest This metric displays the number of standby operations on the virtual machine guest.

Key: State|VM Standby Guest

VM Suspend This metric displays the number of suspend operations on the virtual machine.

Key: State|VM Suspend

Disabled Metrics

The following metrics are disabled in this version of VMware Aria Operations . This means that they do not collect data by default.

You can enable these metrics in the Policy workspace. For more information, in VMware Docs search for Collect Metrics and Properties Details.

Metric Name Key
CPU|Capacity Available to VMs (mhz) cpu|totalCapacity_average
CPU|IO Wait (msec) cpu|iowait
CPU|Reserved Capacity (mhz) cpu|reservedCapacity_average
CPU|Total Wait (msec) cpu|wait
Datastore I/O|Max Observed Number of Outstanding IO Operations datastore|maxObserved_OIO
Datastore I/O|Max Observed Read Rate (kbps) datastore|maxObserved_Read
Datastore I/O|Max Observed Reads per second datastore|maxObserved_NumberRead
Datastore I/O|Max Observed Write Rate (kbps) datastore|maxObserved_Write
Datastore I/O|Max Observed Writes per second datastore|maxObserved_NumberWrite
Storage|Total Usage (kbps) storage|usage_average
Summary|Average Provisioned Capacity per Running VM (mhz) summary|avg_vm_cpu
Summary|Average Provisioned Memory per Running VM (kb) summary|avg_vm_mem
Summary|Average Provisioned Memory per Running VM (kb) summary|avg_vm_mem
Summary|Maximum Number of VMs summary|max_number_vms
Summary|Workload Indicator summary|workload_indicator
Network I/O|Max Observed Received Throughput (KBps) net|maxObserved_Rx_KBps
Network I/O|Max Observed Throughput (KBps) net|maxObserved_KBps
Network I/O|Max Observed Transmitted Throughput (KBps) net|maxObserved_Tx_KBps
Diskspace|Not Shared (GB) Space used by VMs that is not shared.

Key: diskspace|notshared