Re: Status stuck on 'pending'
Most likely it’s due to time/timezone mismatch between the appliance and your local computer. The I/O Analyzer virtual appliance sets its system clock from its ESX/ESXi host at boot time and, in most...
View ArticleRe: I/O Analyzer Access Specification Files
Hi Chien-Chia, I've just emailed a zip file containing two .icf files that do not show up in the Web UI, but will manually load into I/O Meter in the appliance. Regards Steve
View ArticleRe: I/O Analyzer Access Specification Files
Hi Steve, Thanks for sending us the files. After trying them, I realized that our backend server in fact assumes some naming pattern to distinguish from the types of workloads. For customized...
View ArticleCan I clone an I/O Analyzer VM before I turn it on?
I'd like to run three instances of I/O Analyzer on a three node cluster. Once I get the first deployed, can I simply clone then migrate it to the other host? Would I need to manually edit the MAC...
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Re: Can I clone an I/O Analyzer VM before I turn it on?
Why not deploy another two?Its not that hard
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Re: Can I clone an I/O Analyzer VM before I turn it on?
Oddly enough, it is in this case I'm a lab system that doesn't have the OVA nor do I have permissions to download files from it. Thus I was thinking of this work around!
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IO Analyzer Worker VM - Disk Full
Hi, I encounter an issue when performing random write tests: about 10min after the beginning of the test, all my worker VMs fall to 0 iops.The following message is displayed on the vCenter: Information...
View ArticleDisk Error every time I/O Analyzer is deployed
Every time I deploy I/O Analyzer 1.5.1 or 1.5.0 from the OWA, the system boots, finds inconsistencies in the drive and forces a FSCK which it is unable to complete. This puts I/O Analyzer in read only...
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Hi, It sounds like your OVA file might be corrupted. Can you do an MD5 check and make sure your downloaded vmware-io-analyzer-1.5.1.zip has an MD5 checksum of "2a21a36f034389bc96f42ee3ff7608c4"? Also,...
View ArticleRe: Can I clone an I/O Analyzer VM before I turn it on?
Hi, We've never tried that but my understanding is when you power on a cloned/copied VM, you should be asked by the VI or VC GUI that whether you copied the VM (or some similar questions). When you...
View ArticleRe: IO Analyzer Worker VM - Disk Full
Hi, This doesn't sound like an I/O Analyzer issue. I/O Analyzer simply invokes Iometer and generates IOs to the target block device. Since VSAN is still in beta, I'd suspect this is more of a VSAN...
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Re: Disk Error every time I/O Analyzer is deployed
Both the size of the ZIP file and the MD5 are correct. Same error. Saw this and was quick enough to grab a screen shot. This is the original error that comes just before the disk check error. Could it...
View ArticleRe: Disk Error every time I/O Analyzer is deployed
Hi, It's unlikely that ESX 5.0 is the problem since we're unable to reproduce this issue on our local setup. We have tested the appliance on 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5 and have no issues. However, in our dev...
View ArticleUse IoAnalyzer with another OS
Hello I am currently using I/O Analyzer thanks to the downloadable version from the website.Is it possible to use it with a recent version of OS instead of Ubuntu 8.0.4? Or use it with another OS...
View ArticleCan't get Single VM Iometer test to start
Hi I added my ESXi 5.1 host and a single windows 7 VM running on it to a workload config. For the iometer test, I selected the 128k_0read_0rand.icf workload. After I click run, the web GUI shows that...
View ArticleRe: Can't get Single VM Iometer test to start
ARRRRRRRRGGG! This is so frustrating. I cannot get the IOMeter window to open on the workers, including itself. ESXi 5.5Version 1.5.1All appliances are using DHCP. Have registered them in DNS. Please...
View ArticleRe: Can't get Single VM Iometer test to start
The worker VMs have to also be I/O Analyzer appliance VMs. If the I/O Analyzer appliance VM doesn't run Iometer after the test is started, it's mostly due to network issues. Please double check whether...
View ArticleRe: Use IoAnalyzer with another OS
At the moment there is no easy way of porting I/O Analyzer components to another base VM. We're now working on moving from Ubuntu 8.0.4 to SLES11 SP2, which will be the base VM for the next release....
View ArticleRe: Can't get Single VM Iometer test to start
I was planning to use windows 7 as a worker VM since my team is interested in profiling IO from a windows box. Looks like this is not possible with IO Analyzer. Correct? ~Harsh
View ArticleRe: Can't get Single VM Iometer test to start
No. Since Windows is proprietary, we are unable to release a Windows-based version of I/O Analyzer. However, you may download Iometer binary and manually run it on your Windows VM. In this case, I/O...
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