Disk io monitor vista

Click on "Create Manually Advanced " 6. Click "Next" 7. Click Finish The data set i. Task Set should now appear in the right hand pane. Double click on the data set ie Task Set 2. Double click on the "DataCollector01" 3. In the "Performance Counters" tab click Add. You will see something like the following in the Added Counters window: 5. To scheule the Perfmon.

By default, iostat monitors all the storage devices of your computer. But, you can monitor specific storage devices such as sda, sdb etc or specific partitions such as sda1, sda2, sdb4 etc with iostat as well. For example, to monitor the storage devices sda and sdb , run iostat as follows:.

As you can see, only the partitions sda1 and sda2 are monitored. One tool that offers an all in one view of critical System components is the Reliability and Performance Resource View.

In this guide we'll look at Disk usage and how you can identify disk activity and possible bottlenecks. In order to access Resource View, you must be a member of the local Administrator group or launch the tool using 'Run As".

To start Resource View:. Reliability and Performance Monitor will start with the Resource View display. Once opened, click on Disk to expand the view for all Disk activity. Seven columns are displayed, and the definitions of each column follows:. The first thing I like to do, is sort the Response Time column from highest to lowest time, then expand the File column so I can see the actual files that are causing disk activity to occur.

To expand, use your mouse to grab the column and drag it to the right. By stopping the monitor you can then identify which application or file is causing the most disk activity to occur either by reading or writing from the disk. Next within the 'Instances of selected object' section, select the physical disk s you want to monitor by selecting the volume letter.

G o back to the 'Available Counters' list and expand the 'PhysicalDisk' node. Highlight the following counters by holding the CTRL key on the keyboard and selecting each counter:. How to start capturing using the new Data Collector Set:. Online Services.