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Hi Ian,

ONTAP 9.3 added file and LUN level performance counters that we are using in VSC for VVols. They track IOPS, latency, throughput and logical space usage, and are shown in the VASA Provider dashboard for the top VMs within vCenter (in conjunction with API-Services).

You can see a screenshot of the dashboard on page 9 of the VVol TR-4400: https://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-4400.pdf

---Karl



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I think I know the answer to this already (which is NO) but maybe I'm missing something not so obvious.

Is there a way to insert into vSphere some storage statistics from NFS datastores on a per-VM basis? Eg, I want to see that VM prod-xyz is using 3924 IOPS and has 18ms write latency, and I want to see it through the single pane of glass that is vCenter Server in the VM specific statistics. I'm going to guess that the answer is no, not without some sort of plugin to vCenter that talks to an ONTAP API and tracks operations on a file level, keying from the VMDK path(s) in the VMX file. I'd also love to see those stats extended to per-VM physical and logical disk space utilization. I have no idea if those sort of stats are even available, and if they were, I would hope that someone on the NetApp side of the equation would have done this already as part of VSC. It would make reporting to management a lot easier.

Just throwing it out there..


Ian Ehrenwald
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Hi Karl
Thanks for the reply. I will check out the TR, however I am pretty sure we cannot switch to VVols from traditional datastores just to get these metrics.

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From: Konnerth, Karl <Karl.Konnerth@netapp.com>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 1:25:01 PM
To: Ian Ehrenwald; Toasters
Subject: RE: VMware datastore stats integration

Hi Ian,

ONTAP 9.3 added file and LUN level performance counters that we are using in VSC for VVols. They track IOPS, latency, throughput and logical space usage, and are shown in the VASA Provider dashboard for the top VMs within vCenter (in conjunction with API-Services).

You can see a screenshot of the dashboard on page 9 of the VVol TR-4400: https://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-4400.pdf<https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/njNcC2kq1kfVvBWlSBeMZW?domain=netapp.com>

---Karl



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Subject: VMware datastore stats integration

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I think I know the answer to this already (which is NO) but maybe I'm missing something not so obvious.

Is there a way to insert into vSphere some storage statistics from NFS datastores on a per-VM basis? Eg, I want to see that VM prod-xyz is using 3924 IOPS and has 18ms write latency, and I want to see it through the single pane of glass that is vCenter Server in the VM specific statistics. I'm going to guess that the answer is no, not without some sort of plugin to vCenter that talks to an ONTAP API and tracks operations on a file level, keying from the VMDK path(s) in the VMX file. I'd also love to see those stats extended to per-VM physical and logical disk space utilization. I have no idea if those sort of stats are even available, and if they were, I would hope that someone on the NetApp side of the equation would have done this already as part of VSC. It would make reporting to management a lot easier.

Just throwing it out there..


Ian Ehrenwald
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Hachette Book Group, Inc.
1.617.263.1948 / ian.ehrenwald@hbgusa.com

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