Re: No Operating System - v1.6.2 uses 'Paravirtual' scsi hba
Hi Ron, You mentioned in another thread that you're deploying to an NFS datastore. Do you have a local disk that has enough space to test deployment? If so, it'd be helpful to see whether it succeeds...
View ArticleRe: No Operating System - v1.6.2 uses 'Paravirtual' scsi hba
Hi, I have tried both NFS and iSCSI storage. I do not have sufficient local storage to test with that. However I could try to import the ova to Workstation 10.. Ack, it failed on the first attempt with...
View ArticleRe: No Operating System - v1.6.2 uses 'Paravirtual' scsi hba
Hi Ron, Sorry for the confusion. The vmkfstools command should be performed against <VM_NAME>_1.vmdk not the flat vmdk. Can you try to check again .vmdk file and see if it still gives errors? The...
View ArticleRe: No Operating System - v1.6.2 uses 'Paravirtual' scsi hba
Hi, Okay - no problem. The check says the disks are error free. Cheers, Ron
View ArticleRe: No Operating System - v1.6.2 uses 'Paravirtual' scsi hba
Hi, So far I have not been able to deploy any of the ova's in the 1.6.x series. The v1.5.1 fling deploys and boots just fine. The error on the v1.6.x series is the same for all of them - when deploying...
View ArticleAdding Workload Problems
Hello, I am trying out IO Analyzer for the first time and I believe I have everything set up correctly but in the Web UI I cannot get a workload added. I when I deployed the workers I deleted the...
View ArticleTrace Files - Clarify Latency
Hi, just wanted to clarify something regarding the trace files. I am right to assume that the last field, latency, is ignore during playback or does it have a part to play? Thanks
View ArticleVscsi trace commands output parameter description?
Vscsistats -e trace output is like this,#Command Type,Serial Number,IO Data Length,Num SG Entries,LBN,Time Stamp (microseconds),Command Latency...
View ArticleRe: What do the fields in a trace file mean?
Hi Chien-Chia,Field Timestamp (in Microsecond) is as per epoch or 0 for first command ,0 + completion time of first command and so on.. Thanks,Ram
View ArticleRe: Odd I/O Analyzer Behavior
I am having the exact same issue. I tried the suggesting but it is still happening. Wes
View ArticleDid not find workers on iometer when install vmware-io-analyzer-1.6.2
I deployed "vmware-io-analyzer-1.6.2.ova" on two ESXi hosts say as ESX1 and ESX2. followed all instructions mentioned in user guide io-analyzer1 on ESX1 and io-analyzer2 on ESX2. Launched Io analyzer...
View ArticleOpensource / FIO instead of IOMeter / use community
Hello, I believe it would make sense to open the sources to the community. GO opensource please. Please get rid of the IOMeter Tool. Yes IOmeter is a great tool but the alternative fio provides more....
View ArticleWorkers Don't Execute - Empty run-resxtop.sh
I have freshly downloaded, and deployed the OVA. It's working just fine on the controller, but we do not get the guests to run their workloads. I've worked through the log files, and scripts, and think...
View Articlevmware-io-analyzer-1.6.2 is not loading in mozilla / chrome
Hello i just installed vmware-io-analyzer-1.6.2 it did not like my dhcp so i configured the static ip : "/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0"...
View ArticleBlog Post: Deploying the VMware I/O Analyzer Fling
Made a quick blog post on how to deploy and perform a workload job in its simplest form. Hope this helps people getting started! Deploying the VMware I/O Analyzer Fling - virtuallyBoring
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looks good. Any suggestions for my case it did not took dhcp ip default was localhost:~ # cat ifcfg-eth0BOOTPROTO='dhcp'BROADCAST=''ETHTOOL_OPTIONS=''IPADDR=''MTU=''NAME='82545EM Gigabit Ethernet...
View Articlemax write iops Workload - What is being written?
Is it all random? or is it a set of data over and over?
View ArticleIOmeter not shutting down properly
I'm having a problem where my worker VMs aren't all shutting down IOmeter properly and thus not launching it properly when I run the next test, and the VMs are not producing any workload. This happens...
View ArticleHow to get live scsi traces from Vscsistats?
0down vote favorite Here are things I already know, using vscsistat -t option I can get command traces for "VM/.vmdk" on ESxi. Steps to get scsi traces are:Start capturing traces, On Successful...
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