How much of a detail can you get about a VM from your storage ?

Most storage vendors say that they are VM aware, but it is difficult for the centralized storage vendors to identify VMs, even getting host level statistics is pain , because you need map a LUN to WWNN and then WWNN to a host.

With Nutanix, it is a breeze, because it is a converged platform and Nutanix is VM aware in addition to statistics, Nutanix localizes data based on where the VM is accessing data from. This is quick
overview, in no way it is complete in what other stats we can get.

From CLI:

ncli vm list -- list of VMs running, it gives CPU ,memory, vdisks  configured.
ncli vdisk ls vm-name="name of the VM"
ncli vm  ls-stats name="name of the VM"

Example:
Snippet of ncli vm ls
   ID                        : 50160a6e-d5c2-041d-7a2d-541530f8c86b
    Name                      : nfs-ubu-stress-Colossus09-1-4
    VM IP Addresses           :
    Hypervisor Host ID        : 3
    Hypervisor Host Name      : 10.3.177.183
    Memory (MB)               : 4096
    Virtual CPUs              : 2
    VDisk Count               : 1
    VDisks                    : NFS:19812

ncli vm ls-stats name=nfs-ubu-stress-Colossus09-1-20    Name                      : nfs-ubu-stress-Colossus09-1-20
 VM IP Addresses           : 10.3.58.235
    Hypervisor Host ID        : 746301033
    Memory (MB)               : 4096
    Virtual CPUs              : 2
    Disk Bandwidth (Kbps)     : 25230
    Network Bandwidth (Kbps)  : 0
    Latency (micro secs)      : 2215
    CPU Usage Percent         : 100%
    Memory Usage              : 1.02 GB (1,090,516,000 bytes)


GUI:




From REST API:


 nutanix@NTNX-450-A-CVM:10.1.59.66:~$ cat test_resp.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import json as json
import requests

def main():
  base_url = "https://colossus09-c1.corp.nutanix.com:9440/PrismGateway/services/rest/v1/"
  s = requests.Session()
  s.auth = ('admin', 'admin')
  s.headers.update({'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8'})

  print s.get(base_url + 'vms/50169534-35e1-a1de-c23e-1d1135151293', verify=False).json()
#just VMs will get the all VMs and then you actively get specific vm
if __name__ == "__main__":
  main()

run test_resp.py


Output for one VM:

 {
      "vmId": " {
      "vmId": "50169534-35e1-a1de-c23e-1d1135151293",
      "powerState": "on",
      "vmName": "nfs-ubu-stress-Colossus09-1-4",
      "guestOperatingSystem": "Ubuntu Linux (64-bit)",
      "ipAddresses": [],
      "hostName": "10.3.177.183",
      "hostId": 3,
      "memoryCapacityInMB": 4096,
      "memoryReservedCapacityInMB": 0,
      "numVCpus": 2,
      "cpuReservedInHz": 0,
      "numNetworkAdapters": 1,
      "nutanixVirtualDisks": [
        "/ctr1/nfs-ubu-stress-Colossus09-1-4/nfs-ubu-stress-Colossus09-1-4.vmdk"
      ],
      "vdiskNames": [
        "NFS:18594"
      ],
      "vdiskFilePaths": [
        "/ctr1/nfs-ubu-stress-Colossus09-1-4/nfs-ubu-stress-Colossus09-1-4-flat.vmdk"
      ],
      "diskCapacityInBytes": 53687091200,
      "timeStampInUsec": 1375472003986000,
      "protectionDomianName": null,
      "consistencyGroupName": null,
      "stats": {
        "hypervisor_memory_usage_ppm": "330000",
        "avg_io_latency_usecs": "218757",
        "write_io_ppm": "1000000",
        "seq_io_ppm": "411998",
        "read_io_ppm": "0",
        "hypervisor_num_transmitted_bytes": "-1",
        "hypervisor_num_received_bytes": "-1",
        "total_transformed_usage_bytes": "0",
        "hypervisor_avg_read_io_latency_usecs": "0",
        "hypervisor_num_write_io": "15760",
        "num_iops": "113",
        "random_io_ppm": "588001",
        "total_untransformed_usage_bytes": "-1",
        "avg_read_io_latency_usecs": "-1",
        "io_bandwidth_kBps": "18807",
        "hypervisor_avg_io_latency_usecs": "6000",
        "hypervisor_num_iops": "788",
        "hypervisor_cpu_usage_ppm": "460000",
        "hypervisor_io_bandwidth_kBps": "31636"
      }
    },",
      "powerState": "on",
      "vmName": "nfs-ubu-stress-Colossus09-1-4",
      "guestOperatingSystem": "Ubuntu Linux (64-bit)",
      "ipAddresses": [],
      "hostName": "10.3.177.183",
      "hostId": 3,
      "memoryCapacityInMB": 4096,
      "memoryReservedCapacityInMB": 0,
      "numVCpus": 2,
      "cpuReservedInHz": 0,
      "numNetworkAdapters": 1,
      "nutanixVirtualDisks": [
        "/ctr1/nfs-ubu-stress-Colossus09-1-4/nfs-ubu-stress-Colossus09-1-4.vmdk"
      ],
      "vdiskNames": [
        "NFS:18594"
      ],
      "vdiskFilePaths": [
        "/ctr1/nfs-ubu-stress-Colossus09-1-4/nfs-ubu-stress-Colossus09-1-4-flat.vmdk"
      ],
      "diskCapacityInBytes": 53687091200,
      "timeStampInUsec": 1375472003986000,
      "protectionDomianName": null,
      "consistencyGroupName": null,
      "stats": {
        "hypervisor_memory_usage_ppm": "330000",
        "avg_io_latency_usecs": "218757",
        "write_io_ppm": "1000000",
        "seq_io_ppm": "411998",
        "read_io_ppm": "0",
        "hypervisor_num_transmitted_bytes": "-1",
        "hypervisor_num_received_bytes": "-1",
        "total_transformed_usage_bytes": "0",
        "hypervisor_avg_read_io_latency_usecs": "0",
        "hypervisor_num_write_io": "15760",
        "num_iops": "113",
        "random_io_ppm": "588001",
        "total_untransformed_usage_bytes": "-1",
        "avg_read_io_latency_usecs": "-1",
        "io_bandwidth_kBps": "18807",
        "hypervisor_avg_io_latency_usecs": "6000",
        "hypervisor_num_iops": "788",
        "hypervisor_cpu_usage_ppm": "460000",
        "hypervisor_io_bandwidth_kBps": "31636"
      }
    },