VMware IOInsight is a tool that was developed by the VMware Performance Group to help customers understand their storage I/O behavior. You can use this information to tune your storage. IOInsight is a virtual appliance that captures I/O traces from ESXi and displays the results in a web-based interface. In this recipe, we will download, install, and run an analysis using VMware IOInsight.
To step through this recipe, you will need at least one ESXi Server, an instance of installed vCenter Server, and vSphere Web Client. You will also need an IP address for the IOInsight appliance. No other prerequisites are required.
The first step is to download the IOInsight software:
- Go to .
- From the main page, read the license, then download the ZIP file. Unzip the file.
- Log in to vSphere Web Client and go to the
Hosts and Clusters
view. - Right-click on your cluster and select
Deploy OVF Template...
. - In the
Deploy OVF Template
wizard, select the.ova
file you downloaded...