Comments on: Using Perfmon For Accurate, ESX Performance Counters

By: Paresh

Paresh — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:05:00 +0000

Hi, Ran this tool in Windows 2008 R2 SP2. The script appears to run without errors (ran as administrator). However the counters are still missing in perfmon. Following error is logged in application logs

Event 256
Source vmStatsProvider
The following information was included with the event:

root\cimv2

the message resource is present but the message is not found in string/message table.

Has anyone seen this?

Regards,
Paresh

By: High CPU Ready, Poor Performance | VMtoday

High CPU Ready, Poor Performance | VMtoday — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:53:18 +0000

[...] I was dealing with a resource contention issue. I had the VMstats provider running in the guest (http://vpivot.com/2009/09/17/using-perfmon-for-accurate-esx-performance-counters/) showed me that there was no ballooning or swapping going on, and that the vCPU’s were not [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:35:44 +0000

Uninstall and re-install of VMware Tools works for Win2k8 R2 but not Win2k8 with SP2…wonder why??
Downloaded the app you mention and will try it out.
Thank you, Tom

By: drummonds

drummonds — Wed, 19 May 2010 00:20:22 +0000

I have left VMware so it is tough for me to do this. Please give me some time (a week or so) to get this setup again.

By: Grant Friend

Grant Friend — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:28:59 +0000

Hi Scott,

Link is dead, please upload again (swear it was working last week?!)

By: Inaccuracy of In-guest Performance Counters « Pivot Point

Inaccuracy of In-guest Performance Counters « Pivot Point — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:34:10 +0000

[...] screen shot shows two counters available in Perfmon inside a Windows guest with the vmStatsProvider installed (available by default since vSphere). The lighter line is the CPU utilization as reported [...]

By: VMware Perfmon Counters Missing on vSphere | Virtualization Spotlight

VMware Perfmon Counters Missing on vSphere | Virtualization Spotlight — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:33:18 +0000

[...] It turns out this problem stems from an issue with mofcomp. The workaround is to manually uninstall and then reinstall VMware Tools. It also appears that the counters can be added by running vmStatsProvider, as described in Scott’s previous article: http://vpivot.com/2009/09/17/using-perfmon-for-accurate-esx-performance-counters/ [...]

By: VMware Perfmon Counters Missing on vSphere? « Pivot Point

VMware Perfmon Counters Missing on vSphere? « Pivot Point — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:37:26 +0000

[...] VMware Perfmon Counters Missing on vSphere? Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: esx, perfmon, windows — Scott @ 9:37 pm I was recently shown a problem where the ESX Perfmon counters we added to vSphere 4.0 virtual machines were not disappearing in Windows virtual machines as of vSphere 4.0 U1. The problem stems from an issue with mofcomp, which I will briefly describe below. For the impatient, the workaround is to manually uninstall and then reinstall VMware Tools. It also appears that the counters can be added by running vmStatsProvider, as I described in a previous article. [...]

By: Praveen

Praveen — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:32:52 +0000

Hi Tim,

Could you try uninstalling tools, reboot the VM and then install tools again to see if the problem is reproducible?

What Windows version is the guest OS running?

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:16:44 +0000

I assumed that you did something wrong or found a bug until the same complaint came my way via Twitter. I am looking into this.