Measuring IOPS in VMWare for an entire datastore

Question

How can I get a view of current and average IOPS for an entire datastore in vcentre? Ideally in fact I'd like to see IOPS across an entire sDRS pool.

I have the entitlement to use it, though I've never looked at it. Is that the tool for the job? — SimonJGreen, Aug 17 '13 at 19:56
Depends on how much of a realtime view you need. I'd really do this at the array level. vCops can give an okay view, though. — ewwhite, Aug 17 '13 at 22:22

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 22 '13 at 18:18

I have used the following script to get the iops of datastore. You can query the esxi host or vcenter.

It will give you an output like this:

VM Interval (minutes) Avg Write IOPS Avg Read IOPS

mssql 30 7 0

mysql 30 1 0

db-sandbox 30 2 0

vcenter 30 8 0

rdp 30 19 4

proxy 30 4 1

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 31 '13 at 18:36

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I installed VCOP, it has been amazing and is totally the right tool for this job.

answered Dec 31 '13 at 18:36

SimonJGreen

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