If you are not familiar with LPAR2RRD, you can read my review post about this free server performance monitoring tool:
[Review]: LPAR2RRD – Free Performance Monitoring
The below virtualization platforms are supported from version 6.00:
- oVirt, RedHat Virtualization (RHV)
- XenServer, Citrix Hypervisor
- Microsoft Windows and Hyper-V
- Solaris LDOM, CDOM & Global Zone
- Hitachi Compute Blade (BladeSymphony)
Before review the last version, let’s review changes and improvements in version 6.00:
- Main news are support for new virtualization technologies and HMC REST API support.
IBM Power Systems
- HMC REST API usage as a total replacement for HMC CLI (ssh) access used until now
- Performance data for all physical adapters: SR-IOV, FC, Eth, SAS
- Configuration with more details
- Power Enterprise Pools configuration
- POWER9 support in CPU Workload Estimator
- Monitoring and alerting for filesystem space utilization
- IBM i – ASP latency monitoring
- Reporter – new reporting feature
- AIX WLM (Workload Manager) monitoring
VMware
- New reporting feature called Reporter
- Cluster LAN aggregated graphs (per ESXi)
- Custom Group: Memory consumed added
- Optimized data gathering from vCenter and back-end processing
The last version 6.02 also fixes a few issues that appeared in 6.00 and adds a few enhancements:
Enhancements
- Re-grouping: new view, where all graphs from all tabs are sorted into 4 tabs (daily/weekly/monthly/yearly)
- Solaris: Custom Group implementation, Zones and LDOM/CDOM separately, CPU core and Memory used
- Solaris: aggregated total CPU/memory with all LDOM/CDOM on the top of Solaris section
- XenServer: expanded Configuration data
- Alerting implemented for stand-alone Linux servers (not under any virtualization)
- ACL: introduced read-only role, members can see everything but cannot modify anything
Fixes
- VMware: if no cluster was defined, there was a problem with presenting ESXi in the menu, fixed
- VMware: fix for this error: “SOAP request error – possibly a protocol issue: 500 read timeout”
- IBM Power Systems: HMC REST API : many smaller fixes, upgrade to it if you have any problem
- IBM Power Systems: SDMC/FSM support: CPU pool utilisation stopped after 6.00, fixed
- oVirt/RHV: fixed a few smaller issues
- Reporter: if ACL in place then the first defined item in the report has been skipped, fixed
- AIX: LPAR2RRD server on AIX might core dump in load.sh, fixed
- OS agent: NFS mount caused a problem to the agent, fixed
- Microsoft Hyper-V: fix of a wrong path added in crontab after install/upgrade
If you have installed version 6.00, upgrade the installation to version 6.02 and if you are using other monitoring, just test it for once. I’m sure it will be a replacement for your current monitoring tools.
Further Reading
[Review]: LPAR2RRD – Free Performance Monitoring
[Review]: Free SAN/Storage Performance Monitoring – STOR2RRD
