This tool is unusable.
I have a 5.0 environment. I set the tool up as instructed. I've tried running the test (after accepting the EULA) about 6-8 different times now, I never get results. The tests run, or look to run in...
View Articlestuck at initializing vi sdk
hello whenever i try to start up a workload i click run now and the test starts, however i never get further than "test running (initializing vi sdk)." any thoughts? thanks in advance. _charlie
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 ArticleResults show ESXtop CPU Util stats only
Hi All, Not sure what I'm doing wrong...IOmeter tests run fine but when I view the results it only shows host CPU utilization stats. Can anybody help?
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 ArticleI/O Analyzer 1.5.1 has officially released.
Dear Community, We've just released I/O Analyzer 1.5.1, which includes a detailed User's Guide and most importantly patches to quite a few bugs that have been reported so far. For those who are having...
View ArticleMultiple Hosts, Multiple Datastores
Hello,I've got 3 hosts all connected to 3 shared 2TB datastores via iSCSI. If I want to verify the performance of each datastore, as well as the storage performance of each host, would it make sense to...
View ArticleI/O analyzer results translation help
hello guys,im new to this and just purchased a raid 6405 card (4 SATA WD RED 2TB Drives) in raid 5 config with 256k stripe with esxi 5.1 free edition. Is there a primer sheet where i can get what are...
View Article(Experimental) Scheduling Tests via HTTP Commands
IntroductionIn I/O Analyzer 1.5.1, we have introduced an experimental new feature, which allows users to schedule tests via HTTP commands. The idea of such an interface is to provide a mean of...
View ArticleUnable to add workload entry
Curious to know if you have any input on a problem in which we can successfully add the ESX hosts while in the “master” analyzer VM and the I/O Analyzer VMs are correctly listed from the ESX hosts...
View ArticleHow i get rid of of old test results
I did some tests with the Analyzer and have some test results listed now.I want to erase them but i cant find any way to do this. Does anyone have an idea?
View ArticleProblem: Trace characteristics display no charts
I had uploaded a remote trace file, the io analyzer notified me a successful result, but Trace characteristics display no charts:Workload Name : exchange_loaddfdfTrace duration is 0 SecondsTrace...
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 ArticleNFS Device Statistics
I'm currently working on validating a new vSphere 5.1 environment predicated on 10Gbit NFS. When I'm using resxtop I can see the device statistics for the NFS volumes (CMD/s, READS/s,WRITES/s,...
View ArticleNo guest results
Hello,I'm using the 1.5.1 Analyzer, I get host results but I'm not getting any VM guest results. Any ideas? Thanks!
View ArticleDoes it work on ESXi 5.5?
When run on 5.5 host it fails to start test:Thu Oct 03 13:44:16 MSK 2013 scheduled new-config-name to run at Thu Oct 03 13:44:17 MSK 2013Thu Oct 03 13:44:17 MSK 2013 running timer for...
View ArticleChange interval for test
I am running a "Listening Mode" test in order to gather some statistics for our ESXi servers. We would like to do this over the course of a few days. Is there a way to edit the interval by which...
View ArticleIO Meter does not start in VM
After pressing the Run Button in the VM iometer does not start. Look in Vm with root . Any idea?
View ArticleHowto : Change second disk size to generate IO which won't hit array cache...
Hello, After working hours and hours to stress out the new storage solution Nutanix (Which i advise you to look at because it's really interesting), we found some crucial points i will sum up there :...
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