Need help creating a report/monitoring storage

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vFoglight V 6.1 So our storage has been really slow lately making some of our VM's crawl. Every time I talk to our storage team they talk to EMC and the answer is BUY new faster/drives or take VM's off the LUNs that are getting slammed. Well that's fine, but now I have some LUNs with over 300Gig free space because they can't/won't try and work with me to figure out a solution. I need to create a report and monitor my LUNs to show they that over the past year the 'slowness' has been getting worse. The template reports for storage just show 'space' stats unless I'm totally not seeing storage performance templates. Is there someone out here that can lead me in the right directions to creating some reports to show storage performance/issues? Are there some kind of pre canned reports I'm not seeing or a 'cartridge' I'm missing here? I would love any help here....THANKS

mcondy · Accepted Answer

Hi,
The reason you keep getting n/a is that the data does not exist. Queue length data is only available where we have OS monitoring agents deployed as VMware does not provide this in a meaningful manner (I am happy to investigate if you can show me otherwise). Disk latency information however should be available but only for ESX 4 hosts and vCenter 2.5 U4 and later as this was the point where it became exposed.
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I would also encourage you to take a look at vFoglight Storage if you want to get deeper into the storage fabric.
-Mike C

DELL-Brad A · Answer

Hello,
We are working on a product that will provide you with the type of storage performance information you are looking for. The product is vFoglight Storage and we are rolling out a beta program in mid-July. You can sign up for the program at: www.vizioncore.com/.../storage
I realize that this doesn't help you with getting answers for your immediate problem today but I believe vFoglight Storage will help you in the future.

heybuzzz · Answer

So there are NO built in features of vFoglight that will look at storage performance? If there are where should I look? Thnaks

mcondy · Answer

What version of ESX are the particular servers running and what version of vCenter do you have?
I ask because it is only in more recent versions of VMware that the necessary data became available via vCenter. We capture latency and other performance metrics for these systems. Otherwise ther are other ways of looking at what you need. let me know and we can take it from there.

heybuzzz · Answer

I'm running ESX 3.5.5 and VC 2.5. I really need to figure out if my LUNs are getting hammered and if so what LUNs. EMC will tell me LUNs 5 and 6 are getting hammered so move some VM's off. I want to see what's going on myself.... Thanks

wilson4 · Answer

Did you ever have any luck getting this report? I have a need to get Queue lengths and storage in a dashboard but it seems everything I try just gets me a 'n/a' in the column.

heybuzzz · Answer

Chris.... I've tried a few time, but get the same errors. Error
[One or more cartridges installed could not be enabled, Error with cartridge vBundle-1-1.7.0 : com.quest.nitro.service.cartridge.api.CartridgeException: Could not enable an unlicensed cartridge vBundle-1]
I can install the cartidge without enabling on install and then get....
Could not execute the requested operation
[Error had occurred and could not activate the selected cartridges.]
Any suggestions? Thanks

DELL-Chris W · Answer

Load my vBundle-1 Cartridge on your vFoglight and look at the docs. There are many views that enhance vFoglight. You can get the docs and cartridge from my ftp site: ftp://vbundle:vBundleA1@ftp.vmmonitor.com/

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