Contents

• Notices

• Summary of amendments

• Preface

• Part 1: Overview

  • 1. Overview of PFM - RM for Virtual Machine

    • 1.1 Purpose of performance monitoring using PFM - RM for Virtual Machine

    • 1.2 Features of PFM - RM 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

      • 1.3.1 General procedure for performance data collection tasks

      • 1.3.2 Differences in performance data collection from PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine

    • 1.4 Example of performance monitoring operation using PFM - RM 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 - RM 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 Example of performance monitoring operation using PFM - RM for Virtual Machine (for logical partitioning feature)

      • 1.6.1 System resources that are important for performance monitoring in a logical partitioning feature system

      • 1.6.2 Selecting a baseline

      • 1.6.3 Monitoring the CPU resource

      • 1.6.4 Monitoring the memory resource

      • 1.6.5 Monitoring disk resources

      • 1.6.6 Monitoring the network resources

    • 1.7 Example of performance monitoring operation using PFM - RM for Virtual Machine (for KVM)

      • 1.7.1 System resources that are important for performance monitoring in a KVM system

      • 1.7.2 Selecting a baseline

      • 1.7.3 Monitoring the CPU resource

      • 1.7.4 Monitoring the memory resource

      • 1.7.5 Monitoring disk resources

      • 1.7.6 Monitoring the network resources

    • 1.8 Example of performance monitoring operation using PFM - RM for Virtual Machine (for Docker environment)

      • 1.8.1 System resources that are important for performance monitoring in a Docker container

      • 1.8.2 Selecting a baseline

      • 1.8.3 Monitoring the CPU resource

      • 1.8.4 Monitoring the memory resource

      • 1.8.5 Monitoring disk resources

      • 1.8.6 Monitoring the network resources

    • 1.9 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 - RM 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 - RM for Virtual Machine system configuration

    • 2.4 Changing the PFM - RM for Virtual Machine operation method

      • 2.4.1 Changing the performance data storage destination

      • 2.4.2 Updating an instance environment

      • 2.4.3 Updating monitoring targets

    • 2.5 Settings for each virtual environment

      • 2.5.1 For VMware

      • 2.5.2 For Hyper-V

      • 2.5.3 For logical partitioning feature

      • 2.5.4 For KVM

      • 2.5.5 For Docker environment

    • 2.6 Examples of setting up an instance environment and monitoring targets

      • 2.6.1 For VMware

      • 2.6.2 For Hyper-V

      • 2.6.3 For logical partitioning feature

      • 2.6.4 For KVM

      • 2.6.5 For Docker environment

    • 2.7 Backing up and restoring

      • 2.7.1 Backing up

      • 2.7.2 Restoring

    • 2.8 Settings for using a Web browser to reference manuals

      • 2.8.1 Setup procedure

      • 2.8.2 Viewing procedure

  • 3. Operations in a Cluster System

    • 3.1 Overview of cluster systems

      • 3.1.1 Configuring PFM - RM 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 PFM - RM 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 - RM for Virtual Machine system configuration

    • 3.6 Changing the PFM - RM for Virtual Machine operation method

      • 3.6.1 Updating the instance environment settings

      • 3.6.2 Updating monitoring targets

      • 3.6.3 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 (6.0) (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 (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

    • Host Network Data (Monthly Trend)

    • Host Network Data (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

    • VM CPU Allocation Value (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

    • VM CPU Allocation Value (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

    • VM CPU Insufficient (6.0) (Monthly Trend)

    • VM CPU Insufficient (6.0) (Status Reporting/Daily Trend)

    • VM CPU Insufficient (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

    • VM CPU Insufficient (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

    • VM CPU Trend (Monthly Trend)

    • VM CPU Used (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

    • VM CPU Used (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

    • VM CPU Used Status (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Recent Past/Drilldown Only)

    • VM Disk Abort Commands (6.0) (Monthly Trend)

    • VM Disk Abort Commands (6.0) (Status Reporting/Real-Time)

    • VM Disk I/O (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

    • VM Disk I/O (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

    • VM Disk Used (6.0) (Monthly Trend)

    • VM Disk Used (6.0) (Status Reporting/Real-Time)

    • VM Disk Used Status (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

    • VM Memory Allocation Value (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

    • VM Memory Allocation Value (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

    • VM Memory Trend (Monthly Trend)

    • VM Memory Used (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Recent Past/Drilldown Only)

    • VM Memory Used Status (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Recent Past/Drilldown Only)

    • VM Network Data (6.0) (Monthly Trend)

    • VM Network Data (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

    • VM Swap Used (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

    • VM Swap Used (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

    • VM Working Size - Total (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Real-Time)

    • VM Working Size - Total (6.0) (Troubleshooting/Recent Past)

  • 5. Records

    • Data model

    • Format of record explanations

    • List of ODBC key fields

    • Summary rules

    • Grouping 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 Virtual Disk Status (PI_VVDI)

    • 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 Performance data collection and management

      • 7.2.2 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

  • B. List of Identifiers

  • C. List of Processes

  • D. List of Port Numbers

    • D.1 Port numbers of PFM - RM for Virtual Machine

    • D.2 Firewall passage direction

  • E. Properties of PFM - RM for Virtual Machine

    • E.1 Remote Monitor Store service property list

    • E.2 Remote Monitor Collector service property list

    • E.3 Remote agent and group agent property list

  • F. List of Files and Folders

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

  • G. Migration from PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine to PFM - Remote Monitor for Virtual Machine

    • G.1 Preparation for migration

    • G.2 Migration in a non-cluster environment

    • G.3 Migration in a cluster environment

    • G.4 Notes on performing migration

    • G.5 Command reference

    • G.6 Property settings of the Collector and Store services

    • G.7 Items that can be migrated when the -targetadd and -instupdate options are specified

    • G.8 Examples of executing the migration command

  • 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. Linkage with JP1/SLM

  • K. About Communication in IPv4 Environments and IPv6 Environments

  • L. Data Sources of the Record

    • L.1 In VMware

    • L.2 In Hyper-V

    • L.3 In KVM

    • L.4 In logical partitioning feature

    • L.5 In Docker environment

  • M. Fields Affected by Setting the PFM - RM for Virtual Machine

  • N. Version Revisions

    • N.1 Revisions in 11-50

    • N.2 Revisions in 11-00

  • O. Reference Material for This Manual

    • O.1 Related publications

    • O.2 Conventions: Abbreviations for product names

    • O.3 Conventions: Acronyms

    • O.4 Conventions: Product names, service IDs, and service keys

    • O.5 Conventions: Installation folder

    • O.6 Conventions: KB, MB, GB, and TB

  • P. Glossary

• Index

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