You can use the Virtual SAN host performance charts to monitor the workload on your hosts and determine the root cause of problems. You can view Virtual SAN performance charts for hosts, disk groups, and individual storage devices.

When the performance service is turned on, the host summary displays performance statistics for each host and its attached disks. At the host level, you can view detailed statistical charts for virtual machine consumption and the Virtual SAN back end, including IOPS, throughput, latency, and congestion. Additional charts are available to view the local client cache read IOPS and hit rate. At the disk group level, you can view statistics for the disk group. At the disk level, you can view statistics for an individual storage device.

Prerequisites

The Virtual SAN performance service must be turned on before you can view performance charts.

To view the following performance charts, hosts in the Virtual SAN cluster must be running ESXi 6.6 or later: Physical Adapters, VMkernal Adapters, VMkernal Adapters Aggregation, iSCSI, vSAN - Backend resync I/Os, resync IOPS, resync throughput, Disk Group resync latency.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the Virtual SAN cluster in the vSphere Web Client Navigator, and select a host.
  2. Click the Monitor tab and click Performance.
  3. Select vSAN - Virtual Machine Consumption. Select a time range for your query.
    Virtual SAN displays performance charts for clients running on the host, including IOPS, throughput, latency, congestions, and outstanding I/Os.
  4. Select vSAN - Backend. Select a time range for your query.
    Virtual SAN displays performance charts for the host back-end operations, including IOPS, throughput, latency, congestions, outstanding I/Os, and resync I/Os.
  5. Select vSAN - Disk Group, and select a disk group. Select a time range for your query.
    Virtual SAN displays performance charts for the disk group, including front end (Guest) IOPS, throughput, and latency, as well as overhead IOPS and latency. It also displays the read-cached hit rate, evictions, write-buffer free percentage, capacity and usage, cache disk destage rate, congestions, outstanding I/O, outstanding I/O size, delayed I/O percentage, delayed I/O average latency, internal queue IOPS, internal queue throughput, resync IOPS, resync throughput, and resync latency.
  6. Select vSAN - Disk, and select a disk. Select a time range for your query.
    Virtual SAN displays performance charts for the disk, including a physical/firmware layer IOPS, throughput, and latency.
  7. Select vSAN - Physical Adapters, and select a NIC. Select a time range for your query.
    Virtual SAN displays performance charts for the physical NIC (pNIC), including throughput, packets per second, and packets loss rate.
  8. Select vSAN - VMkernel Adapters, and select a VMkernel adapter, such as vmk1. Select a time range for your query.
    Virtual SAN displays performance charts for the VMkernel adapter, including throughput, packets per second, and packets loss rate.
  9. Select vSAN - VMkernel Adapters Aggregation. Select a time range for your query.
    Virtual SAN displays performance charts for all network I/Os processed in the network adapters used by Virtual SAN, including throughput, packets per second, and packets loss rate.
  10. Select vSAN - iSCSI. Select a time range for your query.
    Virtual SAN displays performance charts for all the iSCSI services on the host, including IOPS, bandwidth, latency, and outstanding I/Os.