Metric Counter Question

[chadguiney]

I am trying to get some performance stats from our VSphere environment. I am running a PowerCli command to get storage latency info and am getting an error....

"The metric counter "datastore.numberreadaveraged.average" doesn't exist for entity vmname"

Is there a way to add this metric counter to the VM so I can gather the info from the script? If I run the Get-Stattype -Entity vmname command I can see a couple disk counters listed but not the one I am looking for. I have done Google searching and having no luck finding an answer. Can someone shed some light on this form me?

Thanks in advance!

[sjesse · Accepted solution]

You need to increase your statistics level

Configure Statistics Collection Intervals in the vSphere Client

[vmrale]

Yes. It should help.

Data Collection Levels

Data Counters

[chadguiney]

Thank you sjesse​ that is what I am looking for. I appreciate your help!

[chadguiney]

One more quick question. I have increased the Statistics Level in VCenter to level 3 which should be enough. When I run the Get-Stattype -Entity I dont see the new stattype. Is there a period of time it has to be enabled before I see the datastore.numberWriteAveraged.average listed?

[chadguiney]

Nevermind I see it now. Just have to wait for settings to update.