Chapter 11. SDDC Key Counters
I have explained what Part 3 covers, so let's begin the journey into the wonderful world of counters.
In this chapter, we will start Part 3 by covering the following:
- Counters related to compute (CPU and RAM)
- Counters related to storage
- Counters related to network
- All metric groups in vCenter and vRealize Operations
Compute
The following diagram shows how a VM gets its resources from ESXi. It is a pretty complex diagram, so let me walk you through it. We are using RAM as the example, although the concept applies to CPU too:
How a VM gets its resources
The tall rectangular area represents a VM. Say this VM is given 8 GB of virtual ...
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