We were deploying vmware monitoring at a clients the other day, and found that if the datastore is accessed over NFS, the VMware host does not track the disk operations of the virtual machines.
What’s up with that?
It means that the nice automatic overview graphs we’ve come to expect:
dont exist for NFS datastores.
We can get the same things from the individual VM’s, and creating a dashboard graph that displays the same data, but it seems this is something ESX should support.
(I know, an NFS call is not the same as a disk operation, but I’m just ranting.)