Datastore queue depth, are you out there?

We do not report on the queue depth property but the good news is we do collect the property (if configured) and we can gather the info with some manipulation.

If all your ESX hosts have queue depth set within VMware you can select each host in VMAN and select XML view.  Under the LUN property, you can view queue depth

If you are trying to identify which servers have queue depth set a custom alert can be created using xpath to identify which servers have this property populated.  If you need this let me know and I'll post the query details.

Interesting.  I just dug into some of my hosts and I do not have queueDepth listed.  Checked a bunch of hosts in the same cluster.  Hosts are running 5.1.

Any ideas?

Interesting.  I just dug into some of my hosts and I do not have queueDepth listed.  Checked a bunch of hosts in the same cluster.  Hosts are running 5.1.

Any ideas?

The system that has the property set in my environment is 5.5 so I will confirm that this is true for 5.1 as well.  Another idea is to confirm if the HBA queue depth was set on the ESXi hosts (or if they were left to default).  I used the following link to determine which HBA was installed on my ESXi servers and settings.

VMware KB: Changing the queue depth for QLogic, Emulex and Brocade HBAs

Any luck on confirming if this value is available via 5.1 chrispaap?  I don't have access to the hosts myself and I'm trying to track down a VMware resource to help.  You might be quicker though

It looks like the customers that have this setting visible are on ESXi 5.5.  Our lab setup only has data listed for the 5.5 hosts as well.

One more reason to get the virtualization team moving to 5.5.  Thanks for the confirmation Chris.  If you could post the xpath query into your answer above that would close the loop on this question.