guest network traffic monitoring

[vidals]

Does vmktree allow me to collect and output a graph of each guest OS?

I manage several customers VMs on my ESX servers and I want to know
how to monitor their traffic and give them a place to log in and view
their bandwidth usage like I do for my dedicated server customers who
use cacti. I was hoping cacti would work for guest VMs, but apprently
it doesn't.

Thanks,

Gil Vidals / VMRacks.com

[Lars Troen]

> Does vmktree allow me to collect and output a graph of each guest OS?

Yes, vmktree has graphs for both the physical and virtual machines. It's fine for viewing rates, but it's not meant to be used for accounting due to the way rrd databases are handled.

Lars

[Gil Vidals]

Please shed more light on this topic. Is the way the rrd database handles traffic not accurate enough to use the calculations for billing my customers for traffic usage? 

Is it possible to have a login for each customer's VM in the same way that cacti does, so that each customer can only see their traffic graphs and not the graphs for other customers' VMs?

Thanks,

Gil Vidals / VMracks

Gil Vidals, VCP
gvi...@vmracks.com
www.vmracks.com - ESX VMware Hosting
t. 760.480.4942 f. 760.480.8271

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