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vscsiStats into the third dimension: Surface charts!

How could I ever have missed it… vscsiStats. A great tool within vSphere which enables you to see VM disk statistics. And not only latency and number of IOPs… But actually very cool stuff like blocksizes, seekdistances and so on! This information in not to be found in esxtop or vCenter performance graphs… So we have to rely on once more on the console…

UPDATE: Available now: vscsiStats in 3D part 2: VMs fighting over IOPS !
UPDATE2: Build your own 3D graphs! Check out vscsiStats 3D surface graph part 3: Build your own! Read the rest of this entry »

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