The VMware Virtual SAN Observer is designed to capture performance statistics for a VMware Virtual SAN Cluster and provide access via a web browser and capture the statistics for customer use or for VMware Technical Support.
For any vSphere, Virtual SAN, and storage administrator wanting to dig deeper and analyze performance issues, the virtual SAN observer is a valuable tool.
It provides an in-depth snapshot of IOPS, latencies at different layers of Virtual SAN, read cache hits and misses, outstanding I/Os, congestion, etc. This information is provided at different layers in the Virtual SAN stack to help troubleshoot storage performance.
The Virtual SAN Observer is packaged with vSphere 5.5U1 vCenter Server. The Virtual SAN observer is part of the Ruby vSphere Console (RVC), an interactive command line shell for vSphere management that is part of both Windows and Linux vCenter Server in vSphere 5.5U1.
Initially Virtual SAN engineering team exclusively used the Virtual SAN Observer for early internal Virtual SAN troubleshooting, but the utility is now available to all VMware customers using the new vSphere 5.5U1.
Monitoring VMware Virtual SAN with Virtual SAN Observer
Monitoring VMware Virtual SAN with Virtual SAN Observer
