vSphere Performance

This series was started in 2017 and most of it is still valid. However I have revisited the topic in this 2020 version of the series

I have done a blog series about collecting and displaying performance metrics from a vSphere environment with tools like PowerCLI, InfluxDB and Grafana.

Part 1

Part 2 – Retrieve data

Part 3 – Get-stat

Part 4 – InfluxDB

Part 5 – The script

Part 6 – The Dashboard(s)

Part 7 – More data

Part 8 – Wrap-up and next steps

Extra – Some InfluxDB gotcha’s

Extra – Running Grafana on Openshift

Extra – Monitoring VMware vSAN

Extra - New vSphere plugin for Telegraf

Extra - Monitoring the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA)

Extra - Visualizing data around the world with the Grafana Worldmap panel

Extra - Revisiting VCSA Monitoring

The PowerCLI scripts that are used to collect the metrics are found on GitHub

At VMworld Europe 2018 I did a session based on this series which was recorded. Check this post for more information and link to the recording

At VMworld Europe 2018 I did a session based on the VCSA monitoring part which was recorded. Check this post for more information and link to the recording

Hopefully the series can give you some ideas and inspiration on how to do performance monitoring in your environment. If you have any questions or comments feel free to contact me on Twitter