NetBackup IT Analytics Report Reference Guide
- Introduction to NetBackup IT Analytics
- Alert Reports
- Ransomware reports
- Risk Mitigation Solution Reports
- Risk Mitigation Reports
- Storage Optimization Solution Reports
- System Administration Reports
- Oracle Job Overview
- Capacity Manager Reports
- Application Capacity Reports
- Array Capacity and Utilization Reports
- Array Capacity & Utilization (Generic Data)
- Array Capacity & Utilization (IBM SVC View)
- Array Capacity and Utilization (IBM XIV View)
- Array Capacity and Utilization (NetApp View)
- Array Capacity and Utilization (NetApp Cluster)
- NetApp Storage System Detail
- Array Capacity and Utilization (OpenStack Swift)
- IBM Array Site Summary
- IBM Array Detail
- LUN Utilization Summary
- NetApp Aggregate Detail
- NetApp Cluster-Mode Aggregate Detail
- NetApp Plex Details
- NetApp Volume Details
- NetApp Cluster-Mode Volume Detail
- NetApp StorageGrid Tenant Summary
- Available/Reclaimable Capacity Reports
- Capacity at Risk Reports
- Capacity Chargeback Reports
- Host Capacity Utilization Reports
- SnapMirror Reports
- SnapVault Reports
- Capacity Forecasting Reports
- Storage Performance Reports
- Mission Control for Performance Analysis
- Thin Provisioning Reports
- Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning Pool Utilization
- File Analytics Reports
- Virtualization Manager Reports
- Understanding the Datastore
- VM Server Detail
- VM Snapshot Summary
- VM Detail
- Datastore Utilization Summary
- Datastore Detail
- Fabric Manager Reports
- Host to Storage Dashboard
- Backup Manager Management Reports
- Error Log Summary
- Job Duration Report
- Veeam Backup & Replication Job Summary Report (Homogeneous)
- Veeam and RMAN Job Details Report
- Adding a Note to a Job
- Job Volume Summary Report
- NetBackup deduplication to MSDP savings
- Backup Administration Reports
- Host Details
- IBM Spectrum Protect (TSM) Storage Pools Dashboard
- Job Histogram
- EEBs on Primary server, Media server and Clients reports
- Backup Media Management Reports
- TSM Tape Media Detail Table
- Backup Service Level Agreement (SLA) Reports
- Determining and Improving Backup Start Time Performance
- Determining and Improving Backup Success Performance
- Determining and Improving Backup Duration Performance
- Backup Storage Utilization Reports
- Backup Manager Forecasting Reports
- Backup Billing and Usage Reports
- Determining Media Chargebacks
- Determining Backup Chargebacks
- Backup Policies Reports
- Public Cloud Reports
- AWS Reports
- Microsoft Azure Reports
VM Performance Summary
To access this report, in the Navigation pane select:
When a VM exhibits performance issues, it could stem from either the server, the actual storage, or other network factors. Once server bottlenecks are addressed, the next step is to determine if there's an issue with the LUN and disks. While vCenter provides performance statistics, this information is not always readily available to Storage Administrators.
The VM Performance Summary enables a Storage Administrator to have an at-a-glance look at I/O performance statistics: CPU, Memory, and Disk I/O. In addition, Disk I/O is broken out into reads and writes, with latency statistics. In addition, this report provides the necessary CPU Ready States and CPU Wait States to determine if an ESX host can handle another VM Guest.
Disk Read and Write Latency is available only for ESX Hosts (not VMs). Therefore, latency performance charts are available only for partitions of Type=Host.
Note an attempt is made to collect all the statistics listed in the table, however by default most statistics are only available for an hour. If you require a longer schedule, configure the 5-minute summaries to the desired statistics level, otherwise there may be gaps in the data. As a best practice recommendation, enable and configure the 5-minute summaries for at least level 3 statistics. Setting higher levels for intervals may result in increased load and disk usage on the vCenter
In the vCenter VM ESX Server settings, the statistics level must be set to Level 4 in order for balloon statistics to appear in the VM Performance Summary report. When Level 4 is configured, it will also capture the other statistics, as listed in the Performance Counters and Statistics Level Settings table.
In the vCenter VM ESX Server settings, the statistics level must be set to the maximum level based on the counter listed in the Performance Counters and Statistics Level Settings table.
Note that level 1 is always captured, but other levels may need to be set for other performance counters. Configuring a level lower than the required level for a counter will result in a failure to retrieve the relevant data from VSphere and will cause inaccurate values in reports.
Table: Performance Counters and Statistics Level Settings
Performance Counters Collected | Statistics Level |
---|---|
Memory (%) |
2 |
Memory Usage (%) |
1 |
Avg CPU Usage (%) |
1 |
Avg CPU Usage (KB) |
1 |
Disk Avg Usage (KB/sec) |
1 |
Disk Reads (KB/sec) |
2 |
Disk Writes (KB/sec) |
2 |
Disk # of Reads |
3 |
Disk # of Writes |
3 |
Disk Total Latency (ms) |
2 |
Disk Read Latency (ms) |
2 |
Disk Write Latency (ms) |
2 |
Disk Queue Latency (ms) |
2 |
Disk Queue Read Latency (ms) |
2 |
Disk Queue Write Latency (ms) |
2 |
Maximum Queue Depth |
1 |
Memory Balloon | 4 |
The following example illustrates how statistics levels can be set in vCenter.
To isolate a particular set of statistics--for example, Disk I/O--use the Advanced options in the Report Designer and click the relevant checkbox.
All values represent the average for the interval selected in the "Group By" option.
Table: VM Performance Summary
Column name | Description |
---|---|
Name | Description |
Name |
The name of the VM. Click on this link to view VM Server Details, if it is a host, or VM Detail, if it is a VM. |
Type |
Type of partition: host server or VM; Disk Read and Write Latency is available only for ESX Hosts (not VMs). Therefore, latency performance charts are available only for partitions of Type=Host. |
CPU Usage | |
CPU % |
The VM's CPU usage percentage. |
CPU Max % |
Maximum CPU usage percentage for the report's Group By interval. |
Avg Wait % |
Calculated for VM guests based on the total milliseconds for each data capture interval included in the reporting interval, divided by the number of milliseconds in the reporting interval; used to determine how long VM guests wait to get CPU. |
Max Wait % |
Calculated for VM guests based on the total milliseconds for each data capture interval included in the reporting interval, divided by the number of milliseconds in the reporting interval; used to determine how long VM guests wait to get CPU. |
Avg Ready % |
Calculated for VM guests based on the total milliseconds for each data capture interval included in the reporting interval, divided by the number of milliseconds in the reporting interval; used to determine how long VM guests wait to get CPU. |
Max Ready % |
Calculated for VM guests based on the total milliseconds for each data capture interval included in the reporting interval, divided by the number of milliseconds in the reporting interval; used to determine how long VM guests wait to get CPU. |
CPU MHz |
Average processor speed for the report's Group By interval. |
CPU Max MHz |
Maximum processor speed for the report's Group By interval. |
Balloon Memory | |
Min (KB) |
Minimum of all the data collection intervals within the report's time period. |
Avg (KB) |
Average of all the data collection intervals within the report's time period. |
Max (KB) |
Maximum of all the data collection intervals within the report's time period. |
Memory Usage | |
Memory % |
Average memory usage percentage for the report's Group By interval. |
Memory Max % |
Maximum memory percentage for the report's Group By interval. |
Memory MB |
Average memory usage for the report's Group By interval. |
Memory Max MB |
Maximum memory usage for the report's Group By interval. |
Disk I/O | |
Disk I/O Data Xfer (KB/sec) |
Disk I/O average transfer rate for all disks for the VM. |
Disk Read | |
Data Xfer (KB/sec) |
Disk read transfer rate, average for the report's Group By interval. |
# Reads |
Sum of the number of disk reads for the report's Group By interval. |
Disk Write | |
Data Xfer (KB/sec) |
Disk write transfer rate for the report's Group By interval. |
# Writes |
Sum of the number of disk writes for the report's Group By interval. |
Show Chart |
Check the boxes for which you want to generate charts and click Show Chart to view the VM Performance Over Time graphs. Disk Read and Write Latency is available only for ESX Hosts (not VMs). Therefore, the latency performance charts are available only for partitions of Type=Host. See Show Chart Parameter. |
When selecting the Show Chart option in a VM performance report, a Group By parameter can be applied to the selection.
Note that the default scope selector time period is set to Last 7 Days, so if a Group By greater than Days is selected--that is, Weeks, Months, Quarters, or Years--a chart will not be created.