Chapter 6. Network Counters

We will continue our exploration of counters by covering Network counters in this chapter. We will take the same approach as we did with CPU and RAM. We will cover the following topics:

  • VM Network counters
  • ESXi Network counters
  • Cluster Network counters
  • Distributed Virtual Switch Network counters
  • Network counters at higher levels

Network monitoring and management

For complete network monitoring, you need to complement vSphere with another tool. vSphere does not provide protocol analysis functionality, which is instead available through a packet analyzer or sniffer program, such as Wireshark and Netflow Logic. With vSphere alone, you will not know, for example, which VMs are talking to which VMs, what kind of latency they experience, ...

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