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  4. Virtualization Manager Reports
  5. Physical Disk Performance Summary

Physical Disk Performance Summary

Explore your data center using customizable report templates or by using parts of your IT infrastructure as entry points. Use Search to find reports, templates and dashboards across the portal.

Use the Reports tab to examine the catalog of templates, dashboards and reports - organized by products along with user-created, and system folders. This report is located here:

Virtualization Manager > Performance Reports > Physical Disk Performance Summary

List physical disks with I/O statistics, including read/write latency. Use the Show Chart option to graph the statistics.

Table: Physical Disk Performance Summary

Column name

Description

Physical Disk Name

Disk name links to the Physical Disk Detail.

VM Server

VM Server links to the VM Server Detail.

# Datastore

Number links to the Datastore Utilization Summary.

Disk I/O Data Xfer (KB/sec)

Disk I/O transfer rate.

Disk I/O Latency (ms)

Disk I/O wait time, which is the average for the report's Group By interval.

Disk I/O Max Queue Depth

Disk I/O maximum queue depth.

Disk Read Data Xfer (KB/sec)

Disk read transfer rate.

Disk Read # Reads

Sum of the number of disk reads for the report's Group By interval.

Disk Read Latency (ms)

Disk read wait time, which is the average for the report's Group By interval.

Disk Read Queue Latency (ms)

Average amount of time taken during the collection interval per SCSI read command in the VMKernel queue.

Disk Write Data Xfer (KB/sec)

Disk Write transfer rate.

Disk Write # Writes

Sum of the number of disk writes for the report's Group By interval

Disk Write Latency (ms)

Disk write wait time, which is the average for the report's Group By interval

Disk Write Queue Latency (ms)

Average amount time taken during the collection interval per SCSI write command in the VMKernel queue.

Show Chart

Check the boxes for which you want to generate charts. Use the Advanced option in the scope selector to set a Group by.

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