11 Oracle VM Instance

This chapter describes the metrics associated with the Oracle VM Instance target. Oracle VM Instances are guest virtual machines managed by the hypervisor domain.

For more information about Oracle VM Instances, see the Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Administration Guide.

Basic Configuration Details

This metric category provides information about the basic configuration of an Oracle VM Instance target.

These are configuration metrics and cannot be viewed from the All Metrics page in the Cloud Control UI.

Allocated CPU

This metric displays the number of allocated virtual CPUs to the guest virtual machine.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 24 Hours

Allocated Memory (MB)

This metric displays the amount of memory allocated to the guest virtual machine in MB.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 24 Hours

Allocated Storage (GB)

This metric displays the total amount of allocated storage to the guest virtual machine in GB.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 24 Hours

CPU Priority

This metric displays the CPU priority of the domain.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 24 Hours

CPU Utilization Cap

This metric displays the CPU cap (maximum number of CPU cores) of the domain.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 24 Hours

Domain Type

This metric displays the domain type.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 24 Hours

Guest UUID

This metric displays the unique identifier (UUID) allocated to the guest virtual machine.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 24 Hours

Disk Activity

This metric category provides information about the Oracle VM Instance's virtual block device statistics.

Disk Name

This metric displays the disk name.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 5 Minutes

Read throughput (KB per second)

This metric displays the read throughput since the last metric collection.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 5 Minutes

Write throughput (KB per second)

This metric displays the write throughput since the last metric collection.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 5 Minutes

Total throughput (KB per second)

This metric displays the total throughput since the last metric collection.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 5 Minutes

Disk Activity Summary

This metric category provides a summary of the Oracle VM Instance's virtual block device statistics.

Highest Read throughput (KB per second)

This metric displays the highest write throughput since the last metric collection among all disks.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 5 Minutes

Highest Write throughput (KB per second)

This metric displays the highest write throughput since the last metric collection among all disks.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 5 Minutes

Highest Total throughput (KB per second)

This metric displays the highest total throughput since the last metric collection among all disks.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 5 Minutes

Number of VBD Read Requests

This metric displays the total number of read requests across all virtual block devices since startup.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Number of VBD Read Sectors

This metric displays the total number of read sectors across all virtual block devices since startup.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Number of VBDS

This metric displays the total number of virtual block devices.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Number of VBD Write Requests

This metric displays the total number of written requests across all virtual block devices since startup.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Number of VBD Write Requests

This metric displays the total number of written requests across all virtual block devices since startup.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Number of VBD Write Sectors

This metric displays the total number of written sectors across all virtual block devices since startup.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Reads (KB)

This metric displays the total number of reads in KB since startup.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Read throughput (KB per second)

This metric displays the read throughput since the last metric collection.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Total throughput (KB per second)

This metric displays the total throughput since the last metric collection.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 5 Minutes

VBD OO

This metric displays the total number of times the virtual block devices have encountered an out-of-request error.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Writes (KB)

This metric displays the total number of writes in KB since startup.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Write throughput (KB per second)

This metric displays the write throughput since the last metric collection.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Load

This metric category provides information about the load metrics of an Oracle VM Instance target.

CPU utilization of the virtual machine (%)

This metric displays the CPU usage in percentage as see by the Guest OS running in the virtual machine.

Target Version Collection Frequency Default Warning Threshold Default Critical Threshold Alert Text

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 5 Minutes

Not Defined

Not Defined

Oracle Server's cpu utilization is %value%%%, crossed warning (%warning_threshold%) or critical (%critical_threshold%) threshold.

Relative CPU utilization of the virtual machine (%)

This metric displays the total virtual CPU (VCPU) usage in percentage.

Target Version Collection Frequency Default Warning Threshold Default Critical Threshold Alert Text

All versions

Every 5 Minutes

Not Defined

Not Defined

Oracle Server's relative cpu utilization is %value%%%, crossed warning (%warning_threshold%) or critical (%critical_threshold%) threshold..

Cumulative VCPU utilization per VM (second)

This metric displays the total physical CPU usage in seconds.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Status

This metric displays the status of the guest virtual machine as maintained in Xen.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Up Since

This metric displays the time since the guest virtual machine is up and running.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Network Activity

This metric category provides the statistics of each Oracle VM Instance network interface.

Interface name

This metric displays the name of the network interface.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Read (KB)

This metric displays the total number of read data from the virtual network interface card (VNIC) in KB since startup.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Write (KB)

This metric displays the total number of data written to the VNIC data in KB since startup.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Input Packets

This metric displays the total number of read packets from the VNIC since startup.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Output Packets

This metric displays the total number of written packets to the VNIC since startup.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Read throughput (KB per second)

This metric displays the VNIC read throughput since last metric collection.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Total Throughput (KB per second)

This metric displays the VNIC total throughput since last metric collection.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 5 Minutes

Write throughput (KB per second)

This metric displays the VNIC write throughput since last metric collection.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Network Activity Summary

This metric category provides the summary of the Oracle VM Instance network throughput.

Highest Read throughput (KB per second)

This metric displays the highest read throughput since the last metric collection among all VNICs.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 5 Minutes

Highest Write throughput (KB per second)

This metric displays the highest write throughput since the last metric collection among all VNICs.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 5 Minutes

Highest Total throughput (KB per second)

This metric displays the highest total throughput since the last metric collection among all VNICs.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 5 Minutes

Read throughput (KB per second)

This metric displays the total network read throughput across all VNICs since the last collection.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Write throughput (KB per second)

This metric displays the total network write throughput across all VNICs since the last collection.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Total throughput (KB per second)

This metric displays the total network read and write throughput across all VNICs since the last collection.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All Versions

Every 5 Minutes

Network Configuration

This metric category provides information about the network configuration of an Oracle VM Instance target.

These are configuration metrics and cannot be viewed from the All Metrics page in the Cloud Control UI.

Interface Name

This metric displays the name of the network interface.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All versions

Every 24 Hours

MAC Address

This metric displays the Media Access Control (MAC) address of the network interface.

Target Version Collection Frequency

All versions

Every 24 Hours

Bridge

This metric displays the bridge of the network interface.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 24 Hours

Response

This metric category provides information about the status of the Oracle VM Instance target.

Status

This metric provides the status of the Oracle VM Instance target.

Target Version Collection Frequency Default Warning Threshold Default Critical Threshold Alert Text

All versions

Every 1 Minute

Not Defined

0

Oracle Server %target% is down

Software Configuration

This metric category provides information about the software configuration.

These are configuration metrics and cannot be viewed from the All Metrics page in the Cloud Control UI.

OS Name

This metric displays the OS name of the virtual server.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 24 Hours

VCPU Configuration

This metric category provides information about the virtual CPU.

These are configuration metrics and cannot be viewed from the All Metrics page in the Cloud Control UI.

VCPU ID

This metric displays the ID of the VCPU.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 24 Hours

VCPU Affinity

This metric displays the CPU affinity of this VCPU.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 24 Hours

VCPU Details

This metric category provides information about the virtual CPU.

VCPU ID

This metric displays the VCPU ID of the virtual server assigned VCPU list.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 5 Minutes

CPU Thread ID

This metric displays the physical CPU thread ID where the VCPU ID is running on.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 5 Minutes

Cumulative VCPU Time (second)

This metric displays the cumulative VCPU time the VCPU ran for.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 5 Minutes

Relative CPU utilization (%)

This metric displays the relative to physical server CPU utilization of the VCPU (as measured from hypervisor level).

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 5 Minutes

Status

This metric displays the state of the VCPU.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 5 Minutes

VCPU utilization (%)

This metric displays the VCPU utilization of the VCPU as seen from the Guest OS.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 5 Minutes

Virtual Disks

This metric category provides information about the virtual disks.

Virtual Disk UUID

This metric displays the UUID of the virtual disk.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 24 Hours

Virtual Disk Name

This metric displays the name of the virtual disk.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 24 Hours

Size(MB)

This metric displays size in MB of the virtual disk.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 24 Hours

Type

This metric displays type of the virtual disk.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 24 Hours

Mode

This metric displays the read or write mode of the virtual disk.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 24 Hours

Path of the virtual disk

This metric displays the path of the virtual disk.

Target Version Collection Frequency

Enterprise Manager for Virtual Infrastructure Plug-in Release 12.1.0.2

Every 24 Hours