VMware Performance and Capacity Management - Second Edition

Storage counters at the ESXi level

The storage counters at the ESXi level are similar to those at the VM level. They provide the same set of information (latency, throughput, and IOPS).

Naturally, each of the metric groups gives insight from the vantage point of the object. For example, the ESXi adapter metric group provides the data from each adapter (vmhba).

The following two screenshots show the sets of counters available for each ESXi adapter and their associated storage paths:

ESXi Adapter counters

Notice in the screenshot that there is no total throughput counter, so you need to add write and read manually. vRealize Operations provides the total ...