# VMware VMware is the monitoring module for VMware products including vCenter and vSphere. You can monitor performance counters and get inventory reports for your VMware Hosts and virtual machines.

You can reach VMware module monitoring and reports via left menu. ## ***Module Reports*** VirtualMetric collects following inventory reports for VMware module. **Bare Metal Reports** ```markup Change Tracking Event Log Security Log Firewall Log Best Practices TCP Connections Services Programs Firewall Rules Administrators ``` **Cluster Reports** ```markup Distributed Switch ``` **Server Reports** ```markup Standard Switch Storage Paths ``` **Virtual Machine Reports** ```markup Config Snapshot Services ``` ## ***Module Counters*** VirtualMetric collects following performance counters for VMware module. **CPU** ```markup Latency Usage (%) Demand Co-stop Usage (Mhz) Used Swapwait Ready Total Capacity Reserved Capacity Core Utilization Wait Idle Utilization ``` **Memory** ```markup Consumed Decompression Rate Low Free Threshold Shared Overhead Host Cache Used for Swapping Swap Out Rate for Host Cache Total Capacity Active Write Swap Out to Host Cache Zero Memory Usage Active Compressed Heap Balloon Unreserved Compression Rate Swap In State Swap Out Shared Common Swap In from Host Cache Used by VMKernel Swap Used Swap In Rate Reserved Capacity Heap Free Granted Swap Out Rate Swap In Rate from Host Cache Latency ``` **Network** ```markup Multicast Receives Packet Receive Errors Data Receive Rate Broadcast Transmits Multicast Transmits Data Transmit Rate Broadcast Receives Data Received Rate Network Usage Packets Received Packets Transmitted Transmit Packets Dropped Data Transmitted Rate Unknown Protocol Frames Packet Transmit Errors Receive Packets Dropped ``` **Disk** ```markup Write Rate Command Latency Kernel Read Latency Commands Aborted Kernel Write Latency Read Rate Commands Issued Queue Write Latency Kernel Command Latency Average Read Requests per Second Queue Command Latency Maximum Queue Depth Write Latency Physical Device Read Latency Read Requests Average Commands Issued per Second Queue Read Latency Read Latency Write Requests Average Write Requests per Second Bus Resets Physical Device Write Latency Physical Device Command Latency ``` **Datastore** ```markup Read Latency Average Write Requests per Second Storage DRS Datastore Normalized Read Latency Storage DRS Datastore Write IO Rate Storage IO Control Active Time Percentage Storage DRS Datastore Outstanding Read Requests Storage DRS Datastore Outstanding Write Requests Storage IO Control Datastore Maximum Queue Depth Write Latency Storage DRS Datastore Write Workload Metric Storage DRS Datastore Bytes Written Storage IO Control Normalized Latency Write Rate Storage IO Control Aggregated IOPS Storage DRS Datastore Bytes Read Datastore Latency Observed by VMs Storage DRS Datastore Read IO Rate Read Rate Storage DRS Datastore Normalized Write Latency Average Read Requests per Second Storage DRS Datastore Read Workload Metric ``` **Power** ```markup Energy Usage Cap Usage ``` **Storage Path** ```markup Average Read Requests per Second Average Command Issued per Second Write Rate Read Rate Average Write Requests per Second Read Latency Write Latency ``` **Storage Adapter** ```markup Average Read Requests per Second Average Command Issued per Second Write Rate Read Rate Average Write Requests per Second Read Latency Write Latency ``` **VM Processor** ```markup Usage Demand to Entitlement Ratio Wait Latency Idle Entitlement Used Usage in Mhz Swap Wait Demand Run Overlap Ready Max Limited System Co-Stop ``` **VM Memory** ```markup Memory Saved by Zipping Decompression Rate Swapped Overhead Touched Balloon Active Shared Entitlement Host Cache Used for Swapping Active Write Reserved Overhead Zipped Memory Swap Out Compressed Balloon Target Latency Swap in Rate Swap in Rate from Host Cache Overhead Consumed Zero Swap in Compression Rate Swap Target Swap Out Rate to Host Cache Swap Out Rate Granted Memory Usage ``` **VM Network** ```markup Data Receive Rate Packets Transmitted Packets Received Data Received Rate Network Usage Data Transmit Rate Data Transmitted Rate Broadcast Receives Multicast Receives Transmit Packets Dropped Broadcast Transmits Receive Packets Dropped Multicast Transmits ``` **VM Virtual Disk** ```markup Write Request Size Read Latency Write Workload Metric Write Latency Average Write Requests per Second Number of Small Seeks Average Number of Outstanding Read Requests Average Read Requests per Second Read Workload Metric Number of Large Seeks Read Request Size Number of Medium Seeks Average Number of Outstanding Write Requests Write Rate Read Rate ``` ## ***User Permissions - vSphere*** If you want to use non-administrator user for VMware operations, you need to add and configure the following User and Role permissions according to your environment. **Creating User** Create your user from Local Users & Groups tab. Click Add New User and type new user information.

**Creating Role** You need to create a new role for your user. Go to Home view.

Click on Roles icon.

Click Add button to open dialog.

Assign the following permission to your user role: ```markup Global > Settings Host > CIM > CIM Interaction Host > Configuration > System Management Virtual Machine > Interaction > Console Interaction ``` \ For VMware 6.5 and later versions, you should also add following permission: ```markup Virtual Machine > Interaction > Inject USB HID scan codes ``` \ After you add permissions, you will see following User Role view. After that, you should add the new user to the user role as a member.

Click Add button, select the user and click OK button to apply changes.

## ***User Permissions - vCenter*** If you want to use non-administrator user for vCenter operations, you need to add and configure the following User and Role permissions according to your environment.\ \ **Creating User** First, we will start with adding a new user. Go to Administration tab.

From Users and Groups section, click + button to add a new user.

**Creating Role** Now you should add a new user role to configure permissions. From Roles section, click + button to add new a Role.

On the dialog, expand the All Privileges section to add permissions.

Select the following Permissions from the list: ```markup Global > Settings Host > CIM > CIM Interaction Virtual Machine > Interaction > Console Interaction Virtual Machine > Interaction > Inject USB HID scan codes ``` After Role and User creation, you need to assign the User to the Role.

By default, the new user will have access to all objects in vCenter. If you want to narrow the scope, you can follow the steps below. Go to Navigator and select Hosts and Clusters.

Switch to Permissions tab and complete User-Role Assignment for the scope.

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