VMware, Inc.
METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FINDING VARIOUS TYPES OF EVIDENCE OF PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS IN A DATA CENTER

Abstract:

Methods and systems are directed to finding various types of evidence of performance problems with objects in a data center, troubleshooting the performance problems, and generating recommendations for correcting the performance problems. A performance problem with an object of a data center, such as a server computer, an application, or a virtual machine ("VM"), may result from performance problems associated with other objects of the data center. The methods and systems detect origins of performance problems with objects for which no alerts and parameters for detecting the performance problems have been defined or detect performance problems related to alerts that fail to point to a root cause of the performance problem.