HP Virtual Connect Throughput

I want to address a concern that many HP Virtual Connect customers have had about monitoring their Blade Chassis.  A question I’ve received was “How do I know if I have sufficient uplinks for my traffic?”

Depending on the size of the organization and their familiarity with their networking equipment, they could be monitoring the available metrics on their switches.  If they are not necessarily that network savvy or don’t have the proper monitoring tools in place, they can use the throughput statistics tools within Virtual Connect.  These tools only give a simplistic view to the amount of traffic that is going across your uplinks, and doesn’t show the traffic going out each blade but it does get you some great high level information.

Open Virtual connect, choose Tools–> Throughput Statistics.

Add the selected uplinks you’d like to take a look at.

Select the statistics you’d like to see.

Review your data in a nice easy to read graph.

You can then zoom in on what area you want to see by clicking and dragging.

If you need to modify your view so you can see a longer period of time, or would like to change how often the metrics are save, you can also modify them in the Ethernet Settings section.

This is a pretty simple “How-to” article but I’m not sure how many Virtual Connect Customers know about the throughput statistics option.  I hope it helps!