VSAN 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 ArticleWhat do the fields in a trace file mean?
The vscsiStats help says:"- trace contains NO customer sensitive data- only information recorded is: - serialnumber, IO block size, number of scatter-gather elements -...
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"...
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