Hi,

I'm curious to know more about the built-in Vmware sensors in PRTG. Specially the Datastore Total ReadLatency & Datastore Total WriteLatency.

What do these sensors actually mean? and how do they compare with the data we see in ESXTOP?

Thanks, David.

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Hi David,

The sensor is retrieving its data from the SOAP-API. The data regarding Datastore latencies can't be compared to ESXTOP directly.

You can see the data in vSphereClient -> Performance-Tab -> Advanced -> Switch to: Datastore.

At the moment PRTG shows a rolled up average for all available datastores for the host or vm. We are currently rewriting the VMWare-Sensors to get more performance as well as new features. One new sensor-type will be a dedicated datastore-sensor that supports more detailed informations about latencies.

Kind regards
Dieter


Sep, 2013 - Permalink

Thanks Dieter, any ETA on the new VMware sensors? Is there a beta release?

Regards, David.


Sep, 2013 - Permalink

Most of the improvements are already done and the updated sensor is already part of our Preview-Channel.

Kind regards

Dieter


Sep, 2013 - Permalink