This chart displays the number of I/O operations per one second on the datastore, aggregated across all hosts, and virtual machines accessing this datastore. The chart displays zero values when Storage I/O Control is deactivated.

This chart is located in the Performance view of the datastore or the datastore cluster Performance tab. The counter can be displayed for datastore and datastore cluster charts.

Table 1. Data Counters
Chart Label Description
Storage I/O Control Aggregate IOPs Number of I/O operations per second on the datastore, aggregated across all hosts, and virtual machines accessing the datastore.
  • Counter: datastoreIops
  • Stats Type: Absolute
  • Unit: Number
  • Rollup Type: Average
  • Collection Level: 3