Storage Monitoring

IOPS are used to help characterize the performance requirements of the system. However, once the system is up, additional performance monitoring can be utilized to determine if the disk subsystem is slowing the system down.

Table D7. Performance Monitor Counters for Disk Performance

Object Counter Instance
Physical Disk % Idle Time <All Instances>
Physical Disk Disk Transfers/sec <All Instances>
Physical Disk Avg. Disk secs/Transfers <All Instances>
Physical Disk Split IO/sec <All Instances>

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