VMware Datastore IOPS

VMware Datastore IOPS provides raw disk I/O operations per second (IOPS) for both hosts and guests (virtual machines). This report is helpful for diagnosing read and write efficiency and in some cases memory exhaustion.

1. Configure the following fields from the Device Properties view.
   • Name. Monitor instance name.
   • Description. Optional description.
   • Collection interval. Specify polling frequency (minutes).
2. Click OK to save the monitor settings for this device.
3. To view charts and table data this monitor makes possible, check either or both of these reports:
   • VMware Device Datastore IOPS Report (table data)
   • VMware Virtual Machines Datastore IOPS Report (table data, graphs, and charts)

See Also Performance Monitors Active Script (Performance) APC UPS (Performance) CPU Utilization (Performance) PowerShell Scripting Disk Utilization (Performance) Printer (Performance) Hyper-V Virtual Machine Disk Activity JMX (Performance) Memory Utilization (Performance) Ping Latency and Availability SNMP (Performance) SQL Query (Performance) SSH (Performance) Windows Performance Counter Configuring WMI Formatted Counter monitors WMI Performance Monitor Hyper-V Event Log Monitor (Built-in) Hyper-V Host Virtual Machines Monitor