vFoglight 6.7 - Disk request in Metric Graph

Hi Jens,

Which metric it refer to? Is that native VMware cartridge metric or it from v-Bundle or from other community cartridge?

-Lee

Hi Lee,

I'm not sure, but I find the metric via: Add view, VMware, Virtual Machines, , Storage, Disk Write Requests.

Regards

Jens

Hello,

Did you upgrade your VMware Performance agent as well after upgrading vFoglight?

Sincerely

Prasad Gadgil

Yes, the VMware Performance agents has been updated, running version 5.6.4.2. I have noticed the same on a new installation at a customers site. We are runnning ESX 4.1 and the customer is running ESX 5.0.

Regards

Jens

Was the Agent Host (FglAM) also upgraded?

Administration | Agents | Agent Hosts

The vFoglight 6.7 version of the Agent Manager is 5.6.4.2

This is different than the agent itself:

Administration | Agents | Agent Status

5.6.4.2 is the latest VMware Performance Agent.

Thanks

-d

Yes, FglAM was upgraded. Running version 5.6.2.4. But I can't find the FglAM version 5.6.4.2? VMware Performance Agent is running 5.6.4.2.

Regards

Jens

Hi Jens,

The indication that the Fglam is on recent version can be found by going to Agent hosts dashboard & following the below steps.

Dashboards | Administration | Agents -> Agent Hosts.

Select your FgLAM host, on the bottom of this dashboard:
1. If the 'Upgrade' button is greyed out, it means your FgLAM is running current version 5.6.4.2.

2. If the upgrade button, is active, it means your on old FgLAM version & needs upgrade.
All you need to do, click 'Upgrade' & wait for green check mark on the pop-up window.
Then  click OK -> hit refresh couple of times on this dashboard to see new version '5.6.4.2' for the upgraded FgLAm.

Hope this helps!

Best Regards,
Rachel

Hi Rachel,

The upgrade button is greyed out, but the version is still 5.6.2.4.

The installfile for FglAM is named: fglam-5_6_2_4-windows-x86_x64.exe.

Under Administration it says: Server Version PRO 6.7.0 (build: 5.6.4.2-201208100802-249213)

Regards

Jens

Hi Jens,

Apologies for version confusion here:

The FglAm version in vFoglight 6.7 is 5.6.2.4, it looks like your in the current version.
Only the Vmware agent version changed to 5.6.4.2.

Thanks,
Rachel

Hi,

Have this issue been identified within Foglight for Virtualization. I've recently upgraded a couple of customers FMS to 7.0. There it seems the datastore reas/write counters are resuming collection.

But I do have another customer who know have requested a report in which I need these metrics for their ESXi hosts and thery are still on 6.7. I could use read/write rate: read rate = # blocksRead per second x blockSize

https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/disk_counters.html

But this doesn't show them what they need. Is it possible to convert these into Mb/s?

I've also found another metric, Disk Bytes Read/Written under Host Storage. Are these the same as the one I describe above, e.g. (See screenshot)

• Host - Rate at which data is read from each LUN on the host.

Regards,

Erik Alm