vSphere Client Performance Chart - Increasing Time

[MakoReactor]

Is there a way to increase the time the host saves the Performance Chart information? When I go to chart options, the Time and From options are disabled.

[mwpreston]

Yes, If you are using vCenter, go to Home and under Administration select vCenter Server Settings.  There is a statistics section in there that you can customize to your hearts delight :smileyhappy:

[MakoReactor]

In other words you will have to pay for this feature, you can't use it with vSphere Client :smileyangry:...

[mwpreston]

I believe so. I think the host itself only collects realtime stats and stores them in a flat file. It’s vCenter that does the archiving and rolling up processes.

You could look at some other options. Veeam has a free edition of their Veeam Monitor that I believe allows for a few hosts or something like that that will archive the stats for you…

[MakoReactor]

Thanks I'll check Veeam out. Also I'm wondering if vMA could retrieve log info from the host...

[mwpreston]

The vMA can get the syslog information, but as for performance logs I don’t think so. You can capture esxtop data from it using resxtop, but it’s probably not what you are looking for. I think the free Veeam stuff might be the way to go… ☺