Distributed Virtual Port Group Metrics

The vCenter Adapter instance collects network and summary metrics for distributed virtual port groups.

Distributed Virtual Port Group metrics include badge metrics. See definitions in Badge Metrics.

Table 1. Network Metrics for Distributed Virtual Port Groups

Metric Name	Description
Ingress Traffic	Ingress traffic (KBps). Key: network|port_statistics|rx_bytes
Egress Traffic	Egress traffic (KBps). Key: network|port_statistics|tx_bytes
Egress Unicast Packets per second	Egress unicast packets per second. Key: network|port_statistics|ucast_tx_pkts
Egress Multicast Packets per second	Egress multicast packets per second. Key: network|port_statistics|mcast_tx_pkts
Egress Broadcast Packets per second	Egress broadcast packets per second. Key: network|port_statistics|bcast_tx_pkts
Ingress Unicast Packets per second	Ingress unicast packets per second. Key: network|port_statistics|ucast_rx_pkts
Ingress Multicast Packets per second	Ingress multicast packets per second. Key: network|port_statistics|mcast_rx_pkts
Ingress Broadcast Packets per second	Ingress broadcast packets per second. Key: network|port_statistics|bcast_rx_pkts
Egress Dropped Packets per second	Egress dropped packets per second. Key: network|port_statistics|dropped_tx_pkts
Ingress Dropped Packets per second	Ingress dropped packets per second. Key: network|port_statistics|dropped_rx_pkts
Total Ingress Packets per second	Total Ingress packets per second. Key: network|port_statistics|rx_pkts
Total Egress Packets per second	Total Egress packets per second. Key: network|port_statistics|tx_pkts
Utilization	Utilization (KBps). Key: network|port_statistics|utilization
Total Dropped Packets per second	Total dropped packets per second. Key: network|port_statistics|dropped_pkts
Percentage of Dropped Packets	Percentage of dropped packets. Key: network|port_statistics|dropped_pkts_pct
Max Observed Ingress Traffic (KBps)	Max observed ingress traffic (KBps). Key: network|port_statistics|maxObserved_rx_bytes
Max Observed Egress Traffic (KBps)	Max observed egress traffic (KBps). Key: network|port_statistics|maxObserved_tx_bytes
Max Observed Utilization (KBps)	Max observed utilization (KBps). network|port_statistics|maxObserved_utilization

Table 2. Summary Metrics for Distributed Virtual Port Groups

Metric Name	Description
Maximum Number of Ports	Maximum number of ports. Key: summary|max_num_ports
Used Number of Ports	Used number of ports. Key: summary|used_num_ports
Number of Blocked Ports	The number of blocked ports. Key: summary|num_blocked_ports