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Jae_Ellers
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Virtuoso

Hard metrics for storage speed

I know we've danced around the edges of this enough, but I can't find any references on getting a hard number out of storage testing on ESX 3.

I'm familiar with iometer as a load generator. I understand the metrics can't really be trusted on vms due to clock drift. I plan to use iometer on multiple vms to generate load to test local, iscsi, fc.

How do I get the throughput and iops for the adapter? I'd like to know read & write bytes per second and io per second for each storage area.

I'd prefer not to use anything thru VC as I don't really trust the perf charts. I'd rather log it to a text file and deal with it in excel.

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Jae_Ellers
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Umm. Thunk. Thunk. This thing on.

Check.

Check.

Check one, check one.

Sibilance. Sibilance.

No really. Anyone even have an esxtop parser working on 3? I can't get the parse_esxtop.vbs off of vmguru to work. Index out of bounds error, line 213.

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Jae_Ellers
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Used esxtop & excel 2007 to work thru this.

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meistermn
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Can you explain want you have done in details ?

Meistermn

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