The Inside View of VMs Layer
The Outside View of VMs layer provides an “outside” view of the different VM guests - the metrics reported at this layer are based on what the KVM server is seeing about the performance of the individual guest VMs. However, an outside view of the VM guest operating system and its applications may not be sufficient. For instance, suppose one of the disk partitions of the guest operating system has reached capacity. This information cannot be gleaned from host operating system. Likewise, bottlenecks such as a longer process run queue or a higher disk queue length are more visible using an internal monitor. Internal monitoring (from within the guest operating system) also provides details about the resource utilization of different application(s) or processes.
The tests mapped to the Inside View of VMs layer provide an "inside" view of the workings of each of the guests - these tests execute on a KVM server host, but send probes into each of the guest operating systems to analyze how well each guest utilizes the resources that are allocated to it, and how well it handles user sessions, TCP traffic, and network loading.
By default however, clicking on the Inside View of VMs layer, does not display the list of tests associated with that layer. Instead, appears. This figure provides you with a list of all VM guests and their respective state (see Figure 1).
Figure 1 : A list of guest operating systems on a KVM server host and their current state
To return to the layer model of the KVM server and view the tests associated with the Inside View of VMs layer, click on the component layers link in Figure 1. You can now view the list of tests mapped to the Inside View of VMs layer, as depicted by Figure 2 below.
