I basically asked about the same subject already (with little debugging information)
http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/72666/vmware-app-performance-data
I tried your command with exactly the same engine.conf, but I still dosn't get any data (after >60min). In vCenter I collect only level 2 statistics. But it shouldn't be of concern, because it's about the performance data, which are collected in a database (sql server).
"VMware does not recommend setting the Statistics Level higher than Level 2 unless debugging an issue. The amount of data collected is substantially greater and without adequate processing power on the SQL server could cause performance data to be not collected properly."
I found an option in vCenter advanced settings Perf.Stats.MaxCollectionThreads and have set it from default 2 to 16 in order to allow the maximum of possible synchronous connections. But it didn't help.
We plan to upgrade to esx 5.1, so I will wait, if the problem goes away after that 🙂
Thank you for your support!
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