Performance Data Missing from Virtual Center
Posted by craig 
- on March 6th, 2009 in Tips, Virtualization, vCenter | 1 Comment »
I just got my vCenter upgraded to 2.5 Update 4 this week, and I am enjoying the new features from the performance overview tab in vCenter. I found the history performance data for the ESX and VM guests is missing and not available from the performance view tab anymore.
I tried to search around the knowledge base and VMware communities forum to look for the solution and I found the some useful information here.
VMware Communities
KB from VMware
Both contain valuable information to resolve the problem. I followed the guide from the post and re-run the SQL job and I able to generate the jobs under the SQL server agent. Now I am able to view the data from Feb 2009 to present. I am still working on to recover the rest of the history performance for my vm farm. I did manually open the table in vCenter databases and found the previous records from October 2008 were there, and I engaged with the VMware support now to resolve the problem.
I will update more to this post once I got it fix from the VMware support.
Tags: performance data, vCenter, virtual center, VMware
One Response
Just got the official reply from VMware support, the performance data will disappear if we remove the ESX hosts from vCenter, and yes, we had previously removed the ESX hosts from our vCenter while we performed troubleshooting. To recover this, we must restore from the previous backup on our SQL server.