2.3 Overview of operations on virtualized systems

This subsection explains how to use PFM - Agent for Platform to monitor performance in virtualized systems.

Organization of this section
2.3.1 Advantages of virtualized systems
2.3.2 Objectives of performance monitoring on virtualized systems
2.3.3 System resources most in need of performance monitoring on virtualized systems
2.3.4 Installing PFM - Agent for Platform in a virtualized system
2.3.5 Setting up PFM - Agent for Platform in a virtualized system
2.3.6 Examples of using Agent for Platform - PFM in a virtualized system: Determining whether to change virtualized system settings
2.3.7 Examples of using Agent for Platform - PFM in a virtualized system: Determining whether additional physical resources are needed
2.3.8 Notes regarding usage of PFM - Agent for Platform in virtualized systems
2.3.9 Notes regarding collection of processor information
2.3.10 Notes regarding collection of memory information
2.3.11 Notes regarding collection of disk information
2.3.12 Notes regarding collection of network information
2.3.13 Notes regarding collection of process information
2.3.14 Virtualized system functionality and collected performance data
2.3.15 Data that can be collected with virtualized systems that use zones
2.3.16 Data that can be collected with virtualized systems that use PowerVM
2.3.17 Data that can be collected on virtualized systems that use HP Integrity Virtual Machines (I-VM)
2.3.18 Data that can be collected with virtualized systems that use VMware/KVM
2.3.19 Data that can be collected with virtualization systems that use Virtage
2.3.20 Data that can be collected with virtualized systems that use WPAR
2.3.21 Range of data collected for each virtualized system
2.3.22 Monitoring processor performance based on results output by the sar command in an AIX environment