Notices

Summary of amendments

Preface

Part 1: Overview

1. Overview of PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine

1.1 Purpose of performance monitoring using PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine

1.2 Features of PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine

1.2.1 Collecting performance data from a virtual environment

1.2.2 Collecting performance data according to its characteristics

1.2.3 Saving the performance data

1.2.4 Alerting the user about an operational problem in the virtual environment

1.2.5 Defining reports and alarms easily

1.2.6 Operations in a cluster system

1.3 Overview of collecting and managing performance data

1.4 Example of performance monitoring operation using PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine (for VMware)

1.4.1 System resources that are important for performance monitoring in a VMware system

1.4.2 Selecting a baseline

1.4.3 Monitoring the CPU resource

1.4.4 Monitoring the memory resource

1.4.5 Monitoring disk resources

1.4.6 Monitoring the network resources

1.5 Example of performance monitoring operation using PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine (for Hyper-V)

1.5.1 System resources that are important for performance monitoring in a Hyper-V system

1.5.2 Selecting a baseline

1.5.3 Monitoring the CPU resource

1.5.4 Monitoring the memory resource

1.5.5 Monitoring disk resources

1.5.6 Monitoring the network resources

1.6 Description of compound report settings

Part 2: Setup and Operation

2. Installation and Setup

2.1 Installation and setup

2.1.1 Before installation and setup

2.1.2 Installation and setup flow

2.1.3 Installation procedure

2.1.4 Setting up PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine

2.2 Uninstallation and unsetup

2.2.1 Before uninstallation and unsetup

2.2.2 Unsetup procedure

2.2.3 Uninstallation procedure

2.3 Changing the PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine system configuration

2.4 Changing the PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine operation method

2.4.1 Changing the performance data storage destination

2.4.2 Updating an instance environment

2.5 Settings for each virtual environment

2.5.1 For VMware

2.5.2 For Hyper-V

2.6 Instance environment setting example

2.6.1 For VMware

2.6.2 For Hyper-V

2.7 Starting the command prompt

2.8 Backing up and restoring

2.8.1 Backing up

2.8.2 Restoring

2.9 Settings for using a Web browser to reference manuals

2.9.1 Setup procedure

2.9.2 Viewing procedure

3. Operations in a Cluster System

3.1 Overview of cluster systems

3.1.1 Configuring PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine in an HA cluster system

3.2 Processing when a failover occurs

3.2.1 Failover when an error occurs on the monitored host

3.2.2 Effects when PFM - Manager stops

3.3 Installation and setup

3.3.1 Before installation and setup

3.3.2 Installation and setup flow

3.3.3 Installation procedure

3.3.4 Setup procedure

3.4 Uninstallation and unsetup

3.4.1 Uninstallation and unsetup flow

3.4.2 Unsetup procedure

3.4.3 Uninstallation procedure

3.5 Changing the PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine system configuration

3.6 Changing the PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine operation method

3.6.1 Updating the instance environment settings

3.6.2 Exporting and importing the logical host environment definition file

Part 3: Reference

4. Monitoring Template

Overview of monitoring template

Format of alarm explanations

List of alarms

Host Disk Usage

Host Memory Usage

VM CPU Insufficient

VM Disk Abort Cmds

VM Disk Usage

VM Status

Format of report explanations

Organization of report folders

List of reports

Host CPU Used Status (Monthly Trend)

Host CPU Used Status (Status Reporting/Daily Trend)

Host CPU Used Status (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

Host CPU Used Status (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

Host Disk I/O (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

Host Disk I/O (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

Host Disk Used (Monthly Trend)

Host Disk Used (Status Reporting/Real-Time)

Host Disk Used Status (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

Host Memory Size (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

Host Memory Size (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

Host Memory Used (Monthly Trend)

Host Memory Used (Status Reporting/Daily Trend)

Host Memory Used (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

Host Memory Used (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

Host Memory Used Status (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

Host Memory Used Status (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

Host Network Data (Monthly Trend)

Host Network Data (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

VM CPU Allocation Value (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

VM CPU Allocation Value (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

VM CPU Insufficient (Monthly Trend)

VM CPU Insufficient (Status Reporting/Daily Trend)

VM CPU Insufficient (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

VM CPU Insufficient (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

VM CPU Used (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

VM CPU Used (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

VM CPU Used Status (Troubleshooting/Recent Past/Drilldown Only)

VM Disk Abort Commands (Monthly Trend)

VM Disk Abort Commands (Status Reporting/Real-Time)

VM Disk I/O (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

VM Disk I/O (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

VM Disk Used (Monthly Trend)

VM Disk Used (Status Reporting/Real-Time)

VM Disk Used Status (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

VM Memory Allocation Value (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

VM Memory Allocation Value (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

VM Memory Used (Troubleshooting/Recent Past/Drilldown Only)

VM Memory Used Status (Troubleshooting/Recent Past/Drilldown Only)

VM Network Data (Monthly Trend)

VM Network Data (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

VM Swap Used (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

VM Swap Used (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

VM Working Size - Total (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

VM Working Size - Total (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

5. Records

Data model

Format of record explanations

List of ODBC key fields

Summarization rules

List of data types

Field values

Fields that are added only when a record is recorded in the Store database

Notes on records

List of records

Host CPU Status (PI_HCI)

Host Logical Disk Status (PI_HLDI)

Host Memory Status (PI_HMI)

Host Network Status (PI_HNI)

Host Physical Disk Status (PI_HPDI)

Host Status Detail (PD)

Host Status (PI)

VM CPU Status (PI_VCI)

VM Logical Disk Status (PI_VLDI)

VM Memory Status (PI_VMI)

VM Network Status (PI_VNI)

VM Physical Disk Status (PI_VPDI)

VM Status Detail (PD_VM)

VM Status (PI_VI)

6. Messages

6.1 Message format

6.1.1 Message output format

6.1.2 Message description format

6.2 Message output destinations

6.3 List of messages output to the Windows event log

6.4 Messages

Part 4: Troubleshooting

7. Error Handling Procedures

7.1 Error handling procedures

7.2 Troubleshooting

7.2.1 Setup and service startup

7.2.2 Command execution

7.2.3 Report definition

7.2.4 Alarm definitions

7.2.5 Performance data collection and management

7.2.6 Other problems

7.3 Log information

7.3.1 Log information types

7.3.2 Log file and folder list

7.4 Data collected when a problem occurs

7.4.1 In Windows

7.5 How to collect data

7.5.1 In Windows

7.6 Detecting problems within Performance Management

7.7 Recovering from Performance Management system errors

Appendixes

A. Estimating System Requirements

A.1 Memory requirement

A.2 Disk occupancy

A.3 Disk occupancy for cluster operations

B. List of Identifiers

C. List of Processes

D. List of Port Numbers

D.1 Port numbers of PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine

D.2 Firewall passage direction

E. Properties of PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine

E.1 Agent Store service property list

E.2 Agent Collector service property list

F. List of Files and Folders

F.1 PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine file and folder list

G. Migration Procedure and Notes on Migration

H. Version Compatibility

I. Outputting Action Log Data

I.1 Types of events that are output to action logs

I.2 Format for saving action logs

I.3 Action log output format

I.4 Settings for outputting action logs

J. Glossary

Index

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