I/O Analyzer v1.5 is just released!
V1.5 significantly improved usability of the tool. Please enjoy it.
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I attached tutorial PDF file for v1.5. It comes with completely new UI.We addressed most of UI related problem which was discussed here.Please upgrade your I/O Analyzer.
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Listening mode seems like something that could really help me. Couple questions: What esxtop collection options does it use? Can I change/adjust them?Does it still need a worker per host?
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1. First, we no longer use resxtop collect esxtop stats. But collected stats should be the same as the output of "$esxtop -b -a -d 20 -n xxx". 2. If you want to use listening mode, we don't need worker...
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Do you include full latency stats? MB/s stats? (maybe easier just to post a copy of the output)?
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Yes, now we have VM, adapter, device level latency, MB/sec results and over the time charts.
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Many first users of I/O Analyzer wondered why they got too good IOPS number from first run.Reason is that VM comes with 100MB vmdk for the test. So in most SAN array, it becomes cached I/Os. Please...
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That's good information, however ALL SAN have some amount of cache, doesn't matter how big the initial size of the disk is, IOPS is IOPS, cached or not. MB/s may be affected by cache... but the...
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Yep, I agreed all your points. But I like to minimize wrong impression that I/O Analyzer is reporting inflated IOPS (or someone think it reports too good numbers).
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Bug Report: Issue: Unable to set static IP using network applicationBackground: My environment doesn't have a DHCP server, so I must configure a static address. When configuring static IP, I'm not...
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Can you post the original powerpoint - would like to extract some images from it.
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Thanks for bug report. We assumed customer has DHCP support. We will test your use case and update possible fix for it soon. Thanks.
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Bug Report: Issue: startx is called from .profile, which causes issues when logging in from anywhere besides the local terminal. Expected result: startx should only be called when terminal is local...
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I uploaded PPT file in documentation tab. Thanks.
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What version of vSphere has this been tested with?
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We don't expect that user login appliance except local virtual console. User can ssh to appliance VM and hit startx error, but typing ctrl-c allows user to log in. We may consider your suggestion.
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Hi Matt, I deleted tutorial PPT file due to some concerns about the re-distribution of modified version. If you need it, please let me know the reason why you need PPT file instead of PDF file....
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It was tested from ESX 4.0 to ESX 5.1. VM version is still compatible with ESX 3.5 though.
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I want to write a blog post. I guess I will take my own screen shots.
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Whats the longest collection interval its been tested with? As you may know, many storage arrays support tiering, and so need to have a test run 2-3 days in order to get the data moved. Can we collect...
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