The Monitoring tab in the vSphere 5.5 Web Client is the single best place to go for any sort of monitoring. Using the vSphere 5.5 Web Client Monitoring Tab What better way than to use the web client to monitor your virtual machines, right? That experience with the web client and your knowledge of how to find information fast will really pay off the next time that a problem or trouble arises in the virtual infrastructure as you will be able to solve it quicker. In most cases the usability is better but re-training yourself to use the new interface will take time. The web client, which you should push to be your standard management interface for vSphere, is very different in it's usability. In this two-part series, I'd like to capitalize on that knowledge of vSphere resources and discuss monitoring virtual machines in vSphere (part of which will be resource monitoring, using the vSphere web client). In the second article, VMware vSphere Resource Management Configuration Basics, I talked about how to configure reservations, resource pools, shares, and limits. The first article, Getting Started with Resource Management in VMware vSphere provided the background on the difference between the physical and virtual datacenter, vsphere resource types, resource providers, resource consumers, and why it's so important to manage your resources. In my last two articles, I discussed resource management in vSphere. If you would like to be notified when David Davis releases the next part in this article series please sign up to our Real-Time Article Update newsletter.

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