Monitor Bandwidth on Infrastructure using vDS

jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
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Anyone know a way to poll the vDS data to analyse / bill the bandwidth per VM / vApp ?
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  • dave330idave330i Member Posts: 2,091 ■■■■■■■■■■
    vCOps & Chargeback can do it. You should be able to pull the data from the performance charts, but that's VM based, not vDS. vCOps & Chargeback will be based on VM as well, not vDS.
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    VM based is fine .. we got static ports hence the initial idea to just poll the vDS data somehow ..
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  • QHaloQHalo Member Posts: 1,488
    Netflow? Guess that assumption is whether you have a Netflow capable switch on the other end or are using Cisco.
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  • dave330idave330i Member Posts: 2,091 ■■■■■■■■■■
    jibbajabba wrote: »
    VM based is fine .. we got static ports hence the initial idea to just poll the vDS data somehow ..

    Use the performance chats. Set it to network and save as .xls file.
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Nah, that is for checking 100s of customer VMs icon_smile.gif

    And surely Net flow can only measure the bandwidth going through any given uplink of a host and not vm.
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  • QHaloQHalo Member Posts: 1,488
    vSphere 5 New Networking Features – NetFlow | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs
    NetFlow capability in the vSphere 5 platform provides visibility into virtual infrastructure traffic that includes • Intrahost virtual machine traffic (virtual machine–to–virtual machine traffic on the same host)
    • Interhost virtual machine traffic (virtual machine–to–virtual machine traffic on different hosts)
    • Virtual machine to physical infrastructure traffic
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Ah VMware Netflow - nah, can't use it. It creates sessions of flows between source and dest, so carries a high ram/cpu overhead for monitoring. Netflow in VMware should really just be used for troubleshooting and not permanent monitoring.
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  • dave330idave330i Member Posts: 2,091 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Performance charts are host based, so editing them can get old quick. vCOps will do what you need. I'm sure other 3rd party software can do it as well.
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