Measuring Disk I/O

[foster29]

Is there a way to measure the disk I/O of a virtual machine as well as the host. In 2.5.x via the console you could visually look at the "hard disk" icon for a very quick view of how active the disk is. I 'm looking for either a program that can be run within the VM to see the level of activity.

thanks,

pete

[jccoca]

Do you have Virutal Center? There you can see disk activity for your VMs.

From inside VM you can use spotlight it gives a lot of information.

[foster29]

I have a Dell Poweredge 6850 8cpu x 3ghz. Its currently running about 10 very I/O intensive VMs-(full system9 product suite). My question is looking at the attached graph do disk I/O levels look within in range of expected behavior.

thanks,

[jccoca]

Where is the graph?

[jccoca]

What king of storage do you have?

[foster29]

powerEdge expandable raid controller 4e/si/DI. 4 physical disk each 300gb

[boydd]

Have you tried running "esxtop" from the console or cli? This will give you the stats for both the host and vm's.

DB