How to track a single Xen VM’s I/O utilization

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What is a good way to monitor I/O individually for Xen Virtual Machines (not Dom0)?

Best Answer

You can use:

1) xentop (and drill down on I/O)

2) monitoring tools like xenmon (http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2005/HPL-2005-187.html)

3) Standard I/O monitoring tools that you would normally use should give a good indication of the I/O usage of the guest as well.