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I dont believe IOStat does it on any operating system.<br />
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Answer is complete - NO, not this time, not ever.
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I dont believe IOStat does it on any operating system.

Answer is complete - NO, not this time, not ever.

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MY be I do not have the correct name of the tool but can any &quot;command-line&quot; command in vmware do this?<br />
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Thank you for the help.
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MY be I do not have the correct name of the tool but can any "command-line" command in vmware do this?

Thank you for the help.

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This newbie thanks you for your patience.... :o)
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This newbie thanks you for your patience.... :o)

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I believe IOStat can tell you if a VM access storage in a serial or random fashion but is there a why to see this from he datastore level. I am trying to see if a datastore has for example 75% random with 30% reads or 80%b serial with 90% writes
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I believe IOStat can tell you if a VM access storage in a serial or random fashion but is there a why to see this from he datastore level. I am trying to see if a datastore has for example 75% random with 30% reads or 80%b serial with 90% writes

Review Datastore workload for serial or random access

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