Performance Monitor counters for IOPS

6 June 2012 by

I usually refer to this excellent TechNet post when using PerfMon: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.08.pulse.aspx

However, for measuring IOPS, these counters are better:

  • Current Disk Queue Length
  • Disk Reads/sec
  • Disk Transfers/sec
  • Disk Writes/sec

These counters were recommended from this video on VDI and IOPS: http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/videos/archive/2012/03/19/windows-iops-deep-dive-what-iops-means-to-you-and-why-you-can-t-do-vdi-without-knowing-about-them_2C00_-a-video-from-BriForum-2011.aspx

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