(Experimental) Scheduling Tests via HTTP Commands
IntroductionIn I/O Analyzer 1.5.1, we have introduced an experimental new feature, which allows users to schedule tests via HTTP commands. The idea of such an interface is to provide a mean of...
View ArticleUnable to add workload entry
Curious to know if you have any input on a problem in which we can successfully add the ESX hosts while in the “master” analyzer VM and the I/O Analyzer VMs are correctly listed from the ESX hosts...
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Just had a few mails with Mark and it looks like the problem is because of cloning IOAnalyzer VMs. Mark, please let us know if you think there's some improvement we can make on this issue....
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Thanks again for the quick reply on this one. Not sure I would spend much time trying to figure out why the clone operation seemed to possibly cause the problem as it was very easy to just deploy from...
View ArticleProblem: Trace characteristics display no charts
I had uploaded a remote trace file, the io analyzer notified me a successful result, but Trace characteristics display no charts:Workload Name : exchange_loaddfdfTrace duration is 0 SecondsTrace...
View ArticleWhat do the fields in a trace file mean?
The vscsiStats help says:"- trace contains NO customer sensitive data- only information recorded is: - serialnumber, IO block size, number of scatter-gather elements -...
View ArticleRe: How i get rid of of old test results
By IO analyzer 1.5.1, after the test result was archived, I can't find the archived report under /var/www/archives directory, but it was still under /var/www/expts directory, but using "." prior to...
View ArticleNFS Device Statistics
I'm currently working on validating a new vSphere 5.1 environment predicated on 10Gbit NFS. When I'm using resxtop I can see the device statistics for the NFS volumes (CMD/s, READS/s,WRITES/s,...
View ArticleRe: How i get rid of of old test results
When displaying results, the backend will skip all hidden folders. If you would like to restore the archived results, please rename the folder to remove the leading dot ('.'). If you would like to...
View ArticleRe: NFS Device Statistics
Our backend doesn't request NFS client stats so for the current version, there will be no NFS stats. We'll add this feature in the next release. Thanks,Chien-Chia
View ArticleRe: Problem: Trace characteristics display no charts
I just tried it and was unable to reproduce your problem. One thing I notice though is on p.20 of the IOAnalyzer User's Guide (Collecting a vSCSI Trace), the command in step#7 misses an output...
View ArticleRe: What do the fields in a trace file mean?
The definitions of each column can be found in the second line of your CSV output file:#Command Type,Serial Number,IO Data Length,Num SG Entries,LBN,Time Stamp (microseconds),Command Latency...
View ArticleRe: Problem: Trace characteristics display no charts
Dear Chien-Chia, you'r right , thank you very much. I didn't read the user's guide, but only refer to the vscsiStats help:- If successfully started, log channel id(s) will be printed out....
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Dear Chien-Chia,Your're right, thanks again.
View ArticleI/O Analyzer 1.5 - Tests Not Running
I just deployed the I/O Analyzer 1.5 appliance on a vSphere 4.0 host (ESX, not ESXi) version 4.0.0 build 208167 and created a configuration to test Max Throughput and had it run immediately. I tried...
View ArticleRe: I/O Analyzer 1.5 - Tests Not Running
Hi Brian, Could you please send /var/www/ioa.log and /var/log/daemon.log to io-analyzer-info@vmware.com? It looks like this is a problem related to VI SDK. Thanks,Chien-Chia
View ArticleRe: Add first host
Could you please send /var/www/ioa.log and /var/log/daemon.log to io-analyzer-info@vmware.com? Thanks.
View ArticleRe: Add first host
This sounds like the I/O Analyzer VM was unable to retrieve host information via VI SDK. Could you please double check from a terminal in VI client consolse, you are able to ping ESX? Thanks,Chien-Chia
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