Can we implement VMware I/O Analyzer to monitor MS windows SQL 2008 R2...
Hello VMware experts,Hope you all doing great... i have a question, i want to implement this VMware I/O Analyzer for monitoring the LUNs which is connected to 3 node Microsoft SQL 2008 R2 cluster.3 HP...
View ArticleNo workers on iometer when I install vmware-io-analyzer-1.6.1.
Hi, I have installed vmware-io-analyzer-1.6.1 and as instructed I have deleted and add a 200 GB second hard disk. and then I have changed the ip address. Also I have installed 3 more to put more load...
View ArticleIO Analyzer and Shell Shock
Do you have any assessment of, or remediation for, the vulnerability of this appliance to the various Shell Shock CVEs?
View ArticleCan i know what is the I/O function as?
there are I/O in hardware parts such as (storage, memory, network, CPU) But mainly what is I/O mean? I need easy explaination. any one?
View ArticleI/O Analyzer 1.6.2 has officially released
Dear I/O Analyzer Community, We've just released an update release for I/O Analyzer, v1.6.2. This update mainly includes patched base OS packages to address security vulnerabilities including...
View Articleroot password 1.6.2
Hi, I am trying to login into the appliance with root / vmware but I am getting an authentication failure, I can login with vmware / vmware but this does not give me root privileges as I need them to...
View ArticleI/O Analyzer 1.6.2 does not generate reports due to a file permission problem
I/O Analyzer 1.6.2 appliance doesn't generate reports.Logs indicate: unable to call charting scripts: Cannot run program "/bin/sh" (in directory "/root/ioAnalyzerScripts"): java.io.IOException:...
View ArticleModify use of root account
Hello,I would like to know if there is a simple solution not to use the root account on the ESXi but a privileged account with a different name (I have an account called admin but no direct access to...
View ArticleVSAN I/O Analyzer Performance Profiles
Attached are two VSAN performance testing profiles for the I/O Analyzer appliance. They will be included in future releases of the I/O Analyzer. They can be used with the VMware Virtual SAN POC Guide....
View ArticleIOmeter - profiles
Hi, I have a rather quick question. If all the tests are based on IOmeter simulations, is there a list of all tests and their configuration specs available somewhere?
View Articleweb interface security
Hallo, how can I restrict access even in the web interface ? Once you're in the console anyone can access .Is there any way to request credentials from the web interface ? Thanks and regards
View ArticleSerial Number in output of vscsiStats -e
Exactly what does the "serialnumber" in the output from vscsiStats -e refer to? Thanks
View ArticleIO Analyzer stats
Hi, Does anyone know if the figures that make up the SUM are just maximums that have been hit or a constant throughout the whole test? For instance in the io analyzer report the figures for ESX top...
View Articlehow to use custom iometer icf with multiple io analyzers
so here's my setupI have deployed to the IO analyzer ova to 3 VMs 1 controller and 2 workers on the controller I have created custom Iometer workloads, gave them proper names and placed them...
View ArticleProgrammatically get linked clone chain length
Hi I want to get the chain length of VMs and am struggling to find where in an API or even existing web tool this property is exposed. I tried...
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IO Analyzer Hitting Local Disk
Hello - Our team is trying to use IOAnalyzer, however, it appears all of the I/O is hitting disk1 as opposed to the second disk that we've configured. Our setup is as follows: 1 Master with 8...
View ArticleNFS vs iSCSI IOPS differ - why?
Hello - I recently setup an environment utilizing 8 IO Analyzers each accessing either an iSCSI LUN or NFS Share (but not both at the same time). The secondary virtual disk was set at 30GB.For the...
View Article1.6.2 ova file corrupt?
Hi,When I deploy this ova the vmware client complains, right at the end of the process, that the vmdk file fails the integrity check. Can someone kindly compare the md5sum for a working deployment of...
View ArticleSizing the Virtual Hard Disk
For I/O Analyzer worker VMs, it's recommended to create a larger second virtual hard disk which serves as the IOmeter target.Is the size of the virtual Hard Disk exactly the same as the workload's...
View ArticleNo Operating System - v1.6.2 uses 'Paravirtual' scsi hba
Hi, I finally got the v1.6.2 ova to deploy by using the WebClient instead of the NativeClient, however I went to boot it up and it will not boot. The error message is "No operating system found" and...
View ArticleAdding Workload Problems
Hello, I am trying out IO Analyzer for the first time and I believe I have everything set up correctly but in the Web UI I cannot get a workload added. I when I deployed the workers I deleted the...
View ArticleTrace Files - Clarify Latency
Hi, just wanted to clarify something regarding the trace files. I am right to assume that the last field, latency, is ignore during playback or does it have a part to play? Thanks
View ArticleVscsi trace commands output parameter description?
Vscsistats -e trace output is like this,#Command Type,Serial Number,IO Data Length,Num SG Entries,LBN,Time Stamp (microseconds),Command Latency...
View ArticleOdd I/O Analyzer Behavior
Hello -I have 10 IO Analyzer VMs setup (1 Master and 9 workers). As of late, we've been experiencing odd behavior with respect to the execution of workloads on the worker VMs. The scenario is as...
View ArticleDid not find workers on iometer when install vmware-io-analyzer-1.6.2
I deployed "vmware-io-analyzer-1.6.2.ova" on two ESXi hosts say as ESX1 and ESX2. followed all instructions mentioned in user guide io-analyzer1 on ESX1 and io-analyzer2 on ESX2. Launched Io analyzer...
View ArticleOpensource / FIO instead of IOMeter / use community
Hello, I believe it would make sense to open the sources to the community. GO opensource please. Please get rid of the IOMeter Tool. Yes IOmeter is a great tool but the alternative fio provides more....
View Articlevmware-io-analyzer-1.6.2 is not loading in mozilla / chrome
Hello i just installed vmware-io-analyzer-1.6.2 it did not like my dhcp so i configured the static ip : "/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0"...
View ArticleBlog Post: Deploying the VMware I/O Analyzer Fling
Made a quick blog post on how to deploy and perform a workload job in its simplest form. Hope this helps people getting started! Deploying the VMware I/O Analyzer Fling - virtuallyBoring
View Articlemax write iops Workload - What is being written?
Is it all random? or is it a set of data over and over?
View ArticleIOmeter not shutting down properly
I'm having a problem where my worker VMs aren't all shutting down IOmeter properly and thus not launching it properly when I run the next test, and the VMs are not producing any workload. This happens...
View ArticleHow to get live scsi traces from Vscsistats?
0down vote favorite Here are things I already know, using vscsistat -t option I can get command traces for "VM/.vmdk" on ESxi. Steps to get scsi traces are:Start capturing traces, On Successful...
View ArticleIs there any method to recurring run test (just like a cron jobs)
Hello, Is there any method to recurring run test (just like a cron jobs), or any API can add job to scheduler? ThanksAlan
View ArticleWhere is the MD5/SHA-1 Checksum for the 1.6.2 release?
Subject says it all. Where is it and does it exist? Thanks,
View ArticleIO Analyzer 1.6 Network Ports
Hi Guys, i just deployed the appliance in an segmented enviroment. so the ESXi Hosts and the appliance itself are stored in different vlans.Which do i need to open between them? everytime i tried do...
View ArticleAnyone used IOBlazer fling lately?
I love the ability (on paper anyways) of doing a vSCSIStats trace and then playing it back. Anyone use this older fling? Does it work in vSphere 5.5 or 6.0? Thanks in advance you wonderful people!
View ArticleStats collection errors after updating to openSUSE 12.2
Not sure if this is going to get answered but I'll give it a shot... I updated the IOanalyzer appliance to openSUSE 12.2 and IOMeter/Dynamo version 1.1.0. (much better btw - you should officially...
View ArticleIs it possible to change the network adapter from E1000 to VMXNET3 to test w/...
Hello, I'd like to use I/O Analyzer to compare the difference between using a normal MTU (1500) via iSCSI and Jumbo Frames (9000+ MTU). The datastores in question are using 10GbE and could benefit...
View ArticleWorkers Don't Execute - Empty run-resxtop.sh
I have freshly downloaded, and deployed the OVA. It's working just fine on the controller, but we do not get the guests to run their workloads. I've worked through the log files, and scripts, and think...
View ArticleHow to know IO-meter is running on multiple drives ?
I had connected 10 physical drives to storage controller and run Io meter with following configuration (16K_100Read_0Rand) and run for 900sec 1. How we know Io-meter is running on how many drives2. How...
View ArticleI/O Analyzer not able to add the host
Hi, I/O Analyzer appliance is not able to add an ESXi 6.5 RC build based host. ESXi 6.5 Beta3 build gets added to the UI. Do you use ssh connection protocol to connect a host from I/O analyzer ?...
View ArticleVmware IO Analyzer Archive Results location
Hello All! I accidentally hit the Archive Results button and I have no clue where the data went. Using: vmware-io-analyzer-1.6.2 Thanks in advance!!vmware-io-analyzer-1.6.2
View Articlereduce delay in resxtop data gatherer
Does anyone know if there is a way to have the esxtop data gather at a higher frequency? By default it is gathering data at 20 second intervals, but I am profiling how some SAN deployments handle...
View ArticleAbout Live Storage Migration in VMware ESX 5.1
Storage Migration use IO Mirroring，i want to know that， whether the size of the IO data block is compared with the size of the migrated data block when the data is being migrated to improve the...
View ArticleAbout VMWare ESXi 5.1 Storage vMotion
In papaer http://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/techpaper/vmware-vsphere51-vmotion-performance-white-paper.pdf，mention that“Writes to a region that has already been copied...
View ArticleVMWare IO Analyzer vs. ESX Host Firewall
Hi all!does anyone know if we need special ESX host FireWall settings for run listening sessions?If we start a listening session w/o workload each ESXi host (Cluster Members ESX 5.5) lose his managment...
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IO-Analyzer 1.6.2 - How to add Worker VM's?
I'm using IO-Analyzer but I'm not able to attach a worker VM to a controller VM? I assumed that the controller VM would initiate an IOmeter dynamo on the worker VM and connect it to the IOmeter GUI....
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io analyzer on esxi 5.1.0 error authentification
Hello, in the io-analyzer prerequisites, it says Esxi 4 minimum. How can I solve the authentication problem? Error adding host. <br />java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Host authentication...
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Network is unreachable
Hi, If I configure IP and try to ping connect: Network is unreachable
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I/O Analyzer Testing
I am running the test scheduler but its hangs showing Running (initializing VI SDK).
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Empty file - /root/ioAnalyzerScripts/run-resxtop.sh
I have been looking at the scripts in /root/ioAnalyzerScripts to better understand the IoAnalyzer tool, and I've found that the file 'run-resxtop.sh' is completely empty. What is the deal with this?
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