Monitor Performance of vSAN File Service

You can monitor the performance of NFS and SMB file shares.

Prerequisites

Ensure that vSAN Performance Service is enabled. If you are using the vSAN Performance Service for the first time, you see a message alerting you to enable it. For more information about vSAN Performance Service, see the vSAN Monitoring and Troubleshooting Guide.

Procedure

1. Navigate to the vSAN cluster and then click Monitor > vSAN > Performance.
2. Click the FILE SHARE tab.
3. Select one of the following options:

   Option	Action
   Time Range	Select Last to select the number of hours for which you want to view the performance report. Select CUSTOM to select the date and time for which you want to view the performance report. Select SAVE to add the current setting as an option to the Time Range list.
   File share	Select the file share for which you want to generate and view the performance report.

4. Click SHOW RESULTS.

Results

The throughput, IOPS, and latency metrics of the vSAN file service for the selected period are displayed.

For more information on vSAN Performance Graphs, see the VMware knowledge base article at https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2144493.