IO Analyzer 1.5.1 corrupts Update Manager 5.5.017.854 MSSQL DB
Hi, Each time I start an IO Analyzer Appliance, update manger starts tasks to download patch definition. After a while, the Update Manger service is stopped and i'm not able to restart it. I have to...
View ArticleRe: IO Analyzer 1.5.1 corrupts Update Manager 5.5.017.854 MSSQL DB
Hi, Most likely it's because update manager was having difficulties patching our old Ubuntu base VM. We've just released 1.6, which is based on SLES 11 SP2. Can you give it a try and see whether it...
View ArticleI/O Analyzer 1.6 has officially released
Dear Community, We've just released I/O Analyzer 1.6, which is now based on 64-bit SLES 11 OS. This release also includes several bug fixes and has upgraded library versions of many components (Apache,...
View Articlekernel/disk scheduler
Hi, Thanks for the update to 1.6. For Linux deployments I have set the kernel disk scheduler to noop. My thought is noop would just queue everything and send it to the array with no assumptions....
View ArticleIOAnalyzer 1.6 Static IP
For those of you like me that want to use a static IP on your worker VMs, cant find how to set that up in the documentation and are not all that familiar with SuSE here is how I did it. Log into the...
View ArticleVMware I/O Analyzer vs. IOMETER base
We have run vscsiStats to measure our current production workload and wanted to simulate that same work on a different IO configuration. We have noticed that it is not possible to distinguish between...
View ArticleAdding esxi hosts to io analyser 1.6
Just downloaded and trying to setup the I/O Analyser tool. Failng at the first hurdle 'Adding Hosts to the I/O Analyzer Host List' put in the IP and root password into the webpage and get no further...
View ArticleRe: kernel/disk scheduler
Hi Ian, Thanks for reporting this issue. We're now working on reconfiguring the kernel to set I/O scheduler to noop. We're expecting a minor update shortly. Thanks,Chien-Chia
View ArticleRe: VMware I/O Analyzer vs. IOMETER base
Hi, Due to limited resource, we provide supports only for functional issues of I/O Analyzer. For general performance evaluation and/or capacity planning questions, please contact VMware support. Having...
View ArticleRe: Adding esxi hosts to io analyser 1.6
The most common problem causing 'adding' button to be grayed out or hang is unreachable hosts. The backend Java library takes time to time out the validating request. Please give it some time if you...
View ArticleCompare physical server with a virtual one?
Any chance we could have the ability to add a non vm dynamo for comparison? It seems like everything is mostly in place to do this, we'd just need a few scripts added to select, control, parse, and...
View ArticleBug: Cancel a Test that has low Test Duration
Hi, I think this is a bug in IO Analyzer V1.6: When I configure a test with low test duration (<120sec) then I get the question "Recommended duration is at least 120 seconds. Would you like to...
View ArticleRe: Bug: Cancel a Test that has low Test Duration
Thanks for reporting the bug. We have confirmed this is a bug in our front-end code. We'll fix this bug in our coming minor update. Thanks,Chien-Chia
View ArticleNo guest stats collected
Hi all, i deployed the io-analyzer 1.6.0 as a controller without any workers in our vpshere 5.5u1-environment, but i am unable to collect any guest-stats. Iometer does not popup. The analyzers second...
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Re: No guest stats collected
The error was due to special characters in my VM name. Thanks a lot to the io-analyzer-team for their excellent work!!!
View ArticleDownload I/O Analyzer
Hi! I was downloaded the zip file, but I can not unzip, because the zip is corrupted.
View ArticleRe: Download I/O Analyzer
Please make sure your download is complete. The file size should be 2,932,608,512 bytes (2.73 GB). Thanks,Chien-Chia
View ArticleI/O Analyzer 1.6.1 has officially released
Dear I/O Analyzer Community, We've just released a minor update release for I/O Analyzer, v1.6.1. This minor update includes: * Changed guest I/O scheduler to NOOP and disable I/O coalescing at I/O...
View ArticleConfiguring trace replay tests with a large number of workers using...
Dear Community, In I/O Analyzer 1.6.1, we have included a script, traceReplayConfigGen.py, which generates a trace replay configuration file for a large number of worker VMs. This document describes...
View ArticleBeware I/O Analyser on DHCP Subnets in a Windows shop
I/O analyser is built on SUSE linux with an internal hostname of `localhost` - not the name you see in the vSphere client.When it self-registered `localhost` in the Windows DNS the second time it was...
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