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Identify storage performance issues

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VMware has recently updated the kb article “ Using esxtop to identify storage performance issues
Details” (KB1008205).
The KB article provides information about how to use esxtop to determine the latency statistics across various devices. The article contain easy to follow, step-by-step instructions on how to setup ESXtop to monitor storage performance per HBA, LUN and virtual machine. It also list generic acceptable values to put your measured values in perspective. It’s a great article, bookmark it for future reference.
If you want to learn about threshold of certain metrics in ESXtop, please check out the ESXtop metric bible featured on Yellow-bricks.com.
ESXtop is a great tool to view and measure certain criteria in real time, but sometimes you want to collect metrics for later reference. If this is the case, the tool vscsiStats might be helpful. vscsiStats is a tool to profile your storage environment and collects info such as outstanding IO, seekdistance and many many more. Check out Duncan’s excellent article on how to use vscsiStats.
Because vscsiStats will collect data in a .csv file you can create diagrams, Gabe written an article how to convert the vscsiStats data into excel charts.

frankdenneman Frank Denneman is the Machine Learning Chief Technologist at VMware. He is an author of the vSphere host and clustering deep dive series, as well as podcast host for the Unexplored Territory podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @frankdenneman
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6 Replies to “Identify storage performance issues”

  2. Esxtop also runs in “batch” mode where it outputs metrics to a .csv file. Each row is a snapshot that has one column per metric.
    Options:
    -b = batch mode
    -a = get ALL metrics (not just the default subset)
    -n # = run for # of snapshots before stopping automatically (nice for running from crontab and not have to manually kill the process when done)
    -d # = wait a delay of # seconds between performance snapshots
    Be warned, though, if you use -a you will get many thousands of columns, and Excel won’t open it. Try using esxplot instead to open it. Alternatively, choose just the fields you want and save that in an esxtop.cfg file and specify that.

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