No guest results
Hi, I tried to use this appliance but I cannot get any guest results.What I do is:- Deploy OVF Template and change second disk size to 4x memory (4GB)- run and login to the appliance- on the web site I...
View ArticleIoMeter does not start
Hi I have been trying to get this appliance running on two seperate test infrastructures without success but with some intermittent results. My basic problem is that the appliance never fires up...
View ArticleRe: IO Analyzer and local SCSI storage
I have 6 SCSI LUNs on one ESXi host and am trying to determine the perspective latency of having multiple large IO loads on small LUNs in contrast to two large LUNs with multiple VMs. As such, I was...
View Articleesxtop statistics not shown
So have started to play around with this fling but I am not obtaining any visibility into esxtop? When I view results it only shows guest statistics...any ideas?
View ArticleReplay Trace Data
Does anyone have the data itself for the replay traces and not just the requests? Or does anyone know where to get traces with real data? Thanks!
View ArticleNo guestsummary.txt.
I am trying to run a max throughput test and got this error in the result: Warning: fopen(/var/www/expts/IOMETER_max_thruput_2012-07-25_15-47-34/guestSummary.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open...
View ArticleMissing host information in Results - hostsummary.txt
Hi There, I am not receiveing the host information in the results. When I download the files, the information is populated in the ESXtop file but the host summary only shows: 'Start Host Results'End...
View ArticleTracing question
Hi I'm doing a storage benchmark to compare a shelf of spindles against an all flash-array for use in a VDI deployment. I was wondering if it's plausible to run vscsiStats on a live ESXi host for a...
View ArticleInvalidEsxtopCsvFile error - Change username?
Hello, I do also get the error InvalidEsxtopCsvFile error because simply we have our ESX servers set up that you can't login using the root user account.Is there a way to change the username? Because...
View ArticleQuestion about : What does it actualy read?
When I perform a 100% read test, what does it read in the IO analyzer, as this is a appliance it doesn't have anything else on the vm then only the OS. So I wonder, what does it read and does it come...
View ArticleInvalidEsxtopCsvFile error
Hi I am recieving the old InvalidEsxtopCsvFile error when viewing results. Thanks in advance however my host password is correct and it contains no special characters. I can see IOMeter running in the...
View ArticleInstallation Issue - Create additional virtual disk or not?
I am following directions for installing VMWare I/O Analyzer 1.1, but there seems to be a difference on what is stated on VMWare link http://labs.vmware.com/flings/io-analyzer instructions tab vs...
View ArticleSave configuration problem
I am not sure how [save configuration] works. Do you need to first add the worker? No matter how, when I clicked on the "Save configuration" tab, it did ask for the configuration name. I entered a...
View ArticleHow to really push the storage
Hi (Sorry if I've missed some documentation) I've tried to really push our storage by starting one I/O Analyzer Appliance using the Max_IOPS.icf. It doesn't seem to be able to push the storage hard...
View ArticleUse I/O analyzer on multiple VMs on same host ?
Can VMware I/O Analyzer to run in multiple VMs on single host. Initial impression is that it is one appliance per host. e.g. if I want to test workloads with 2 VM appliances using different...
View ArticlePlease note that VM comes with 100MB vmdk for initial sanity test
Many first users of I/O Analyzer wondered why they got too good IOPS number from first run.Reason is that VM comes with 100MB vmdk for the test. So in most SAN array, it becomes cached I/Os. Please...
View ArticleI/O Analyzer v1.5 is just released!
V1.5 significantly improved usability of the tool. Please enjoy it.
View ArticleI/O Analyzer 1.5 - Tests Not Running
I just deployed the I/O Analyzer 1.5 appliance on a vSphere 4.0 host (ESX, not ESXi) version 4.0.0 build 208167 and created a configuration to test Max Throughput and had it run immediately. I tried...
View ArticleIO Analyzer vs IO Meter
Hi, I've download IO Analyzer from: http://labs.vmware.com/flings/io-analyzer and followed the instructions. My config is as follows: IO Analyzer on a single VM IO Meter test - 4 disks, 10K RPM RAID...
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