Available performance counters
I'm looking for a list of all available performance perfmon and descriptions for windows server 2008r2 and 2012 counters. Is there such a list or documentation available that I can view or download?
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Difference between vi3 and vc - sdk (visdk400) performance counters
I found two links when searching for the CPU performance counters:
1. http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/cpu_counters.html
2 http://pubs.vmware.com/vi3/sdk/ReferenceGuide/cpu.html
http://www.VMware.com/support/developer/VC-SDK/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/cpu_counters.html [http://pubs.vmware.com/vi3/sdk/ReferenceGuide/cpu.html: http://pubs.vmware.com/vi3/sdk/ReferenceGuide/cpu.html]
As I understand it, the first is for vSphere 4.0, ESX 4.0 and vCenter 4.0 and the second is for the previous version, when it was called VMWare Infrastructure 3. Is this good?
I don't think you understand how to navigate the API reference page, the counter of 'performance' information available in each of the versions of the API, depending on the version, you'll see different counters, be they new or obsolete. You can also tell by looking at the URL
for example
visdk25pubs = VI 2.5
visdk400pubs = vSphere 4.0
visdk41pubs = vSphere 4.1
The specific page that you are referring only lists the CPU performance counters, there is definitely more than that.
Here's the exact URL to all 3 API listing the performance counters:
vSphere 4.0 - http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.PerformanceManager.html
vSphere 4.1 - http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk41pubs/ApiReference/index.html
To access performance indicators (for example, I'll use vSphere 4.1) you will go through the following:
1) go to this address - http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk41pubs/ApiReference/index.html
2) click on managed object Types in the left pane
3) click on the box in the middle that says "ServiceContent.
4) scroll down and click on the link PerformanceManager
(5) you should be taken to the page linked above with all perf counters performance
It really helps to understand the object model of VI/vSphere to cross, here's a great blog by VMware used on the object model - http://www.doublecloud.org/2010/02/object-model-of-vmware-vsphere-api-a-big-picture-in-2-minutes/
Hope it makes sense
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VMware vExpert 2009,2010
VMware scripts and resources at: http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/
Introduction to the vMA (tips/tricks)
Getting started with vSphere SDK for Perl
VMware Code Central - Scripts/code samples for developers and administrators
If you find this information useful, please give points to "correct" or "useful".
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Hardware performance counters are supported?
It seems same issues remained in the past, but I thought I'd try again anyway. VMWare Workstation is-support material of performance counters? In other words, I'd be able to write code that triggers an interrupt on a performance counter overflow and run properly in the guest OS? If VMware Workstation does not support this, is there another VMware product that makes?
I stumbled across a few validations dated around the net that seem to indicate that this feature is not available (see and below). However, because these are so old, it's quite possible the newer versions have since added support.
Thank you
devnull431
http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/faq/, near the bottom, under "VMware".
http://software.Intel.com/en-us/forums/Intel-VTune-Performance-Analyzer/topic/44195/
No, the performance monitor counters are not virtualized in any VMware product.
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Hello
I've created a dll com in VC ++ using performance counters/timers to less than a millisecond.
This is useful when you send a message to very high speed. (say 10 or more)
This is done by the dll.
When I use CVI to create a user interface, this dll runs at a fixed rate of 1ms.
This slows down the application.
I tried to use the same dll with VC ++ host and it works well.
I need to check the registry setting to see if the useDefaultTimer is set to false or TRUE.
(I'm not near the development PC) However, by default, it should be FALSE and I have no fidle with it.
Veuileez post any suggestions you might have.
Thank you!
This problem is now solved for me.
Just the highest thread priority in the dll.
Thank you if you had the answer.
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New performance counters available in vCenter since ESXi 5?
Hi guys,.
Just noticed that the very useful counter co Stop seems to be available in the performance for a tab machine virtual hosts on an ESXi5.1 update 1 box. This is new since ESX(I) 4? Very convenient!
According to this VMware vSphere 5.1 meter stop co vCenter introduced in v5.0... The meter is available in 4.1 but esxtop only... not in vCenter...
/ Rubeck
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Get NFS via PowerCLI performance counters
Hello
I hope someone can help me or perhaps shed some light on my problem and I hope to propose a solution or a path to a solution.
I need to be able to monitor the performance of e/s NFS (mainly the latency to read/write, but also the flow). I tried with the PowerCli using Get-Stat on ie. disk.deviceWriteLatency.average, but I get only for my stores of data non - NFS. I read in several places that there are some measures NFS deleted in an earlier version of vSphere, but also that some of them may actually be available again.
I found that the statistics are available through the vSphere Client (go to an ESX host specific, Performance, advanced and click on build a graph with only my NFS data stores and only read/write latency counters.) This will produce a graph with also live-data and historical data. So I recon the ESX (or vSphere) actually knows NFS performance.
I tried on 5.0.0 ESXi and ESXi 5.1.0 and with PowerCLI 5.1 Release 2.
I've seen some proposals we should probe the VMs (and not the ESXi) for this information, but this seems an exaggeration of the probe of hundreds of virtual machines for more information the vSphere/ESXi server is apparently already?
Does anyone have any suggestions or pointers to how I can get this information?
Concerning
Thomas
If you want to use my Get-Stat2 function, you can do something like this
$stat = "datastore.totalWriteLatency.average"$start = (Get-Date).AddDays(-5) Get-Datastore | where {$_.Type -eq "NFS"} | %{ $dsName = $_.Name $uuid = $_.ExtensionData.Info.Url.Split('/')[-2] $_.ExtensionData.Host | %{Get-View $_.Key | Get-Stat2 -Stat $stat -Instance $uuid -Start $start -Interval HI2 | Select Timestamp,CounterName,Interval,Instance,Value,Entity,@{N="Datastore";E={$dsName}} }}You can do this with the ordinary Get-Stat
$stat = "datastore.totalWriteLatency.average"$start = (Get-Date).AddDays(-5) Get-Datastore | where {$_.Type -eq "NFS"} | %{ $dsName = $_.Name $uuid = $_.ExtensionData.Info.Url.Split('/')[-2] Get-VMHost -Datastore $_ | where {$_.Instance -eq $uuid} | Select Timestamp,MetricId,IntervalSecs,Instance,Value,@{N="Entity";E={$_.Entity.Name}},@{N="Datastore";E={$dsName}}} -
Performance counters are missing in .blg files
Dear all,
I installed the perfmon counter to collect the performance of my windows 2008 R2 server and I added the counter of our application to check its performance, but when I check the .blg file I see these application counters are missing. PerfMon counters for this has not saved.
Interestingly, I added my application 10 counters and out of which 3 are missing. Can anyone explain me about this.
Thank you
Abhishek
Hi Abhishek,
Welcome to the Microsoft Community and thanks for posting your request.
Since then, the issue is with windows 2008 server R2, it would be better suited by contacting Microsoft TechNet forum, we have a dedicated team with advanced tools and permissions to help you with such questions. Follow the link below to view the same query in the Microsoft TechNet forum for more help on this issue.
If you need help with Windows, let us know and will be happy to help you.
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Understanding Performance counters
I am auditing a firm for the first time. I wish to see the performace of storage for a specific data store and virtual machines. The customer has 9 SQL servers on a single data store volume. (Talk about putting your eggs in the same basket) I can not connect via the CLI because I saw straight to GUI.
First of all, read the data of a virtual machine or disc store in the Advanced section in the performance tab? What I was looking for in terms of poor performance outside the high I/O? What is the latency level determines the e/s, 15 high MS? They also have an iSCSI SAN.
There are separate counters as a datastore. = disk. A data store can be a single LUN, a combo of multiple LUNS (extensions) or connection (NFS) network.
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Hello
Please tell me someone how to call methods of the PerformanceCounter which are classified as object:
The URL is:
In fact, confusion is that I'm not able to map the name of the object by which I can access the counters in the categories listed above.
Thank you.
You can also refer to the next thread for the sample in c# Performance counter:
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vSphere networking performance counters - Teddy bear use of flow compared to its use
I am responsible for a vSphere 5.1 environment that uses NFS data warehouses and I'm trying to collect metrics on how much bandwidth is used to access NFS data stores. When I did it first a week ago, I ran esxtop and looked at network and sort by Mbps passed parameters and what he was able to indicate what vmnic NFS vmkernel was linked to. I then took a look at the usage meter vmnic for a total of send/receive KB/s. During my research, I ran across another counter: "use of flow rates for NFS Teddy." Here's the problem, when we look at the use and Teddy flow using the counters from NFS on the same vmnic over the same period of time, the use of flow for meter NFS shows bandwidth much higher than that of the meter use (see image). What gives?
What I forgot to mention, is that measures to counter throughput.usage.nfs report a higher flow rate than the physical NETWORK adapter can handle. The highest Summit on the graph shows about a flow of 13 GB/s on a network card 1 GB. I spoke with a VMware engineer friend and he said it looks like the meter is mislabeled in vCenter. I verified this by looking at the use of the NFS in vCenter Operations Manager metric and compared to the metric of its use on the same physical NETWORK adapter and the metric NFS for the NIC I was looking at showed approximately 23.8 MB/s (if I assume that the unit of measure of labelling was supposed to be B/s and not KB/s) and usage was about 24.2 MB / s. The metric of higher use is due to the fact that the environment is badly designed by my predecessor and the NFS Sharing vmkernel rising with VM networks (something that I am trying to solve).
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I had questions, get historical to display performance data. I can see data in real time. I've scoured the forums and knowledge base articles and found only one that is relvant. However, it did not solve my problem.
We run esxi4.1 update 2. I have inhertitied this system since the previous Director of sys. I think at a certain point, the database has been corrupted and the entire vcenter server was rebuilt with a new database.
The article I found is here
I can't find the error message in the vxpd.log files but when I run the query "select count (*) from vpx_hist_stat1 ' it returns 0
Originally the load_stats_proc procedure was not, adding that in there in accordance with article has no effect.
8 all the jobs are there, and history shows that they are running successfully.
Really, I don't know where to look for here. Any help would be appreciated.
I have not any article more KB than those already mentioned. However, I have seen this question several times before, and as a preventative measure, I would check levels of statistics within the parameters of your vCenter server for anything above 2, particularly given that you inherited from the environment. When the statistics of level 3 and 4 are used for long periods of time, it tends to cause this problem due to the extreme amount of measures which must be wound regularly.
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Performance counters to performance monitor for the Consolidation planning
Hello
I'm trying to understand what the servers are good canidates for the consolidation. Spin the server VSphere 4 and a couple of hosts ESXi 4. Rather than run the task "Analyze physical computers for consolidation" on the Vcenter server, I would rather go manual counters from perfmon on each server at least a week, so I can get a better picture of the resources needed for each server.
I can't find any info on the vmware site which tells you counters set up and how to use them in the planning of peacebuilding. Can someone point me to such a document and/or tell me counters are best to use? Thank you.
I agree with Dave - the big 4 are those to check.
I have a blog entry on this http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/vmroyale/2008/12/22/creating-a-generic-baseline-for-windows that might help.
Good luck!
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Missing counters in windows 2012 and 2012 R2
Hi, I have a script dealing with several Performance counters on windows 2008. But, after moving to Win 2012/2012 R2, my scripts are no more work. It seems that a few counters available in Win 2008 are not more present in 2012 Win/2012R2.
Counters of my interest are-
ObjectName = Counter 'Session of Services Terminal Server"="Total bytes. ObjectName = Counter 'Session of Services Terminal Server"="Total errors ". ObjectName = Counter 'Session of Services Terminal Server"="Total frames ". ObjectName = Counter 'Session of Services Terminal Server"="Total Protocol Cache Hit Ratio" No idea, how to recover information in 2012/2012R2? These counters are completely got deleted or any other counter does the same job?
Ask here
TechNet forums - Windows Server 2012 General - Microsoft
Hope that helps
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Problems with PerfMon - cannot add counters
Hello everyone. I registered just to ask this question, which I couldn't find after a long time consult Google. I come to you in the hope that when Google has failed, you will not!
I use a program that some of you may be familiar, called Samurize (http://www.samurize.com/modules/news/), who does a lot of things; what I use for most allowed, in a blink of an eye, discern my CPU usage, RAM usage, information network, availability, hard disk space and my schedule on the calendar, among other things. I know it is an old program and I know that it was designed for Windows 2000/XP, but it worked without a hitch (not including this one) on Vista and Windows 7.
Recently, however, the ability to monitor CPU, RAM, upload and speed of download and availability has disappeared; all of them give me a flatline, statement I use no internet at all or my computer also (with the exception of availability, which reports that I have been on my computer for 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes and 47 seconds... he refuses to go to the top!). Initially I thought it was a problem with the program. It is not; It has something to do with Perfmon. When I load perfmon.exe through the box run, it loads up with an error that says:
"Cannot add these counters:
\Memory\Available MB
\Memory\% committed bytes used
Defects of \Memory\Cache/s
Defects of \Memory\Cache/s
Time to \%Idle \PhysicalDisk (*)
\PhysicalDisk (*) \Avg disk queue length
\Network interface (*) \Bytes Total/sec.This isn't me accidentally say the same thing twice... it says what I typed on verbatim. [Edit:] Just remembered: other system monitors are perfectly fine. Of course the Task Manager works well, but gadgets seem to work fine in my use of RAM and CPU, as well as my download balance sheet and download speeds. [/ Edit]
It's pretty much the sum of my progress on the problem. I found this page (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/300956), which seems like it might solve the problem... but being a lazy man boned, I hope that there is a simpler solution than that, those who are not "reformat".
Any other relevant information:
Windows 7 x 64 professional
Updated with all official updates
Recently spent Wi - Fi cable (apart from that, I can't thing of any change that I did with my computer)Thanks in advance!
Hello SensaiOpti,
I had the same problem. A level that your pointers to the perfmon counters are damaged, you must re-create these with LODCTR from an elevated command prompt:
Click Start, type cmd click right cmd.exeand select run as administrator.
At the prompt, type lodctr /r and press ENTER. This allows to repair the pointers (those that are stored in the registry).
C:\Windows\System32>lodctr/rInfo: Rebuilt successfully setting from system backup store performance counter
After this action, it is possible that some providers are disabled. You can check the status with lodctr/q.
C:\Windows\System32>lodctr/q
Performance counter ID queries [PERFLIB]:
Based index: 0 x 00000737 (1847)
Last counter text ID: 0 x 00001560 (5472)
Last help text ID: 0 x 00001561 (5473)[.NET CLR data] Performance counters (activated)
DLL name: netfxperf.dll
Open the procedure: OpenPerformanceData
Collect the procedure: CollectPerformanceData
Close the procedure: ClosePerformanceData
First counter ID: 0 x 00001080 (4224)
Last counter ID: 0x0000108C (4236)
First help ID: 0 x 00001081 (4225)
Last help ID: 0x0000108D (4237)
etc.
If she says (disabled) next to a provider, you can activate it with lodctr/e:. Use forthe string between the [] at the beginning of the entry. Success
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Process to get Performance data for the managed entity c#
Could someone please describe the process for pulling data from the API performance? The documentation seems a bit muddled.
Qustions:
Should you create a custom interval perf or you can use the default settings?
If I have a performanceManager MOR and a hostSystem MOR what methods should I call on the PerformanceManger object to retrieve the performance counters on the managed entity? I'm trying to get ready time % of a host. Looks like I need to use the QueryAvailablePerfMetric method to draw the MetricID and then use the QueryPerf to shoot the actual static...
Any help is appreciated.
VirtualFisk
You can use available perfIntervals to extract data.
You have reason to extract performance data, you must first call QueryAvailablePerfMetric to get metricIds and then pass them in the appeal of QueryPerf.
Also to check whether or not real-time data are available on the entity you must first call QueryPerfProviderSummary on entity and check the PerfProviderSummary currentSupported property. If she defined as true, real-time data are available and you can pass PerfProviderSummary refreshRate as intervalID in your QueryAvailablePerfMetric call and still pass this refreshRate as intervalID PerfQuerySpec for QueryPerf appeal.
Please see following code snippet to retrieve data for the managed entity HostSystem (hostMoRef), you can replace it with a managed object of an entity reference
int counterID;
int key;
String group;
String name;
String rollup;ManagedObjectReference pmRef = _sic.perfManager;
PerfCounterInfo[] cInfo = (PerfCounterInfo[])getObjectProperty(pmRef, "perfCounter");Hashtable PerfByID = new Hashtable();
for (int i = 0; i < cInfo.Length; i++)
{
key = cInfo[i].key;
group = cInfo[i].groupInfo.key;
name = cInfo[i].nameInfo.key;
rollup = cInfo[i].rollupType.ToString();
Console.WriteLine("ID: " + key + " group: " + group + "." + name + "." + rollup);
PerfByID.Add(key, group + "." + name + "." + rollup);
}
Console.WriteLine("\n---------------------------------------------");
Console.WriteLine("Entity: " + hostMoRef.Value);
PerfProviderSummary perfSum = _service.QueryPerfProviderSummary(pmRef, hostMoRef);
Console.WriteLine("Refresh Rate" + perfSum.refreshRate + "\nCurrentSupported :"
+ perfSum.currentSupported + "\nisSummarySupported :" + perfSum.summarySupported);Console.WriteLine("Fetching Perf Metric Ids");
DateTime curTime = _service.CurrentTime(_svcRef);
DateTime beginTime = curTime.Subtract(new TimeSpan(1, 0, 0));
DateTime endTime = curTime;
int intervalID;
if (perfSum.refreshRate < 0) {
intervalID = 300;
} else {
intervalID = perfSum.refreshRate;
}
intervalID = 300;
PerfMetricId[] Ids = _service.QueryAvailablePerfMetric(pmRef, hostMoRef, beginTime, false, endTime, false, intervalID, true);if (Ids != null && Ids.Length > 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("Ids fetched from QueryAvailablePerfMetric API are:");
for (int k = 0; k < Ids.Length; k++) {
Console.WriteLine("ID is: " + Ids[k].counterId + " Instance is: " + Ids[k].instance + "Name is: " + PerfByID[Ids[http://k].counterId|http://k].counterId]);
}PerfQuerySpec qSpec = new PerfQuerySpec();
qSpec.entity = hostMoRef;
qSpec.metricId = Ids;
qSpec.format = "csv";
qSpec.intervalId = intervalID;
qSpec.startTime = beginTime;
qSpec.startTimeSpecified = true;
qSpec.endTime = endTime;
qSpec.endTimeSpecified = true;
qSpec.maxSample = 1;
qSpec.maxSampleSpecified = true;PerfQuerySpec[] qSpecs = new PerfQuerySpec[] { qSpec };
if (hostMoRef != null)
{
PerfEntityMetricBase[] perfEntity = null;
perfEntity = _service.QueryPerf(pmRef, qSpecs);if (perfEntity != null && perfEntity.Length > 0)
{
for (int i = 0; i < perfEntity.Length; i++)
{
PerfEntityMetricCSV pms = (PerfEntityMetricCSV)perfEntity[i];
PerfMetricSeriesCSV[] vals = pms.value;
if (vals != null)
{
Console.WriteLine("Perf Counters fetched");
for (int vi = 0; vi < vals.Length; vi++)
{
PerfMetricSeriesCSV pmCSV = vals[vi];
if (PerfByID[vals[http://vi].id.counterId|http://vi].id.counterId].ToString().StartsWith("mem.vmmemctl")) {
Console.WriteLine("CounterId: " + vals[vi].id.counterId + " Name: " + PerfByID[vals[http://vi].id.counterId|http://vi].id.counterId] + " Instance: " + vals[vi].id.instance + " ----- ");
counterID = vals[vi].id.counterId;
//Console.WriteLine("Value in Map: " + PerfByID.get(counterID));
Console.WriteLine("-------- Value : " + pmCSV.value);
}
}
}
}
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("Performance statistics not available for this entity!");
}
}
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("Perf Metrics not fetched");
}
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