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title: "vDisks View"
slug: "vdisks-view"
updated: 2025-07-02T15:35:35Z
published: 2025-07-02T15:35:35Z
canonical: "support.controlup.com/vdisks-view"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# vDisks View

## How to Exclude a Virtual Disk from the View

There may be virtual disks under your hypervisor for which you don't need monitoring and which may add unnecessary data to your view.

To exclude any virtual disks from monitoring:

 1. In the organization tree, right-click the hypervisor whose virtual disks you want to exclude from this view's data and select **Properties.**
 2. In the **Excluded Virtual Disks**	  field, specify the virtual disks that you want excluded from monitoring. Separate multiple values with a comma. You can also use an asterisk * as a wildcard value.
:::(Info) (Note)
This field appears only for those hypervisors that have virtual disks.
:::
 3. Reconnect to the hypervisor for the changes to take effect.


## Column Descriptions for VDisks View

<table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Attached to</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The name and number of the storage controller connector to which the virtual disk is connected</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Controller Label</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The name of the storage controller on the virtual machine to which the virtual disk is attached</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Controller Summary</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The type of storage controller to which the virtual disk is attached</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Datastore Name</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The name of the datastore on which the virtual disk is located</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Disk Capacity</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The total storage capacity of the virtual disk</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Disk Mode</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The disk persistence mode</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Disk Type</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The interface type of the virtual disk</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Host Name</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The name of the host which hosts VMs that are served by this vDisk</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Large Seeks</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Number of seeks during the interval that were greater than 8192 LBNs apart</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Medium Seeks</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Number of seeks during the interval that were between 64 and 8192 LBNs apart</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Outstanding Requests<br></strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Total number of pending read and write request to the virtual disk during the the collection interval<br></span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Outstanding Read Requests</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Average number of outstanding read requests to the virtual disk during the collection interval</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Outstanding Write Requests</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Average number of outstanding write requests to the virtual disk during the collection interval</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Read IOPS</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Average number of read commands issued per second to the virtual disk during the collection interval</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Read Latency</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The average time a read from the virtual disk takes</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Read Load Metric</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Storage DRS virtual disk metric for the read workload model</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Read Rate</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rate of reading data from the virtual disk</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Read Request Size</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Average read request size in bytes</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Small Seeks</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Number of seeks during the interval that were less than 64 LBNs apart</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Thin Provisioned</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Indicates whether thin provisioning is enabled for the virtual disk</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>vDisk File Name</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The name of the virtual disk file on the datastore</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>VM Name</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The name of the virtual machine connected to the virtual disk</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>VM Power State</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The current power state of the virtual machine using this vDisk</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Write IOPS</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Average number of write commands issued per second to the virtual disk during the collection interval</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Write Latency</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The average time a write to the virtual disk takes</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Write Load Metric</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Storage DRS virtual disk metric for the write workload model</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Write Rate</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rate of writing data from the virtual disk</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Write Request Size</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Average write request size in bytes</span></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Write Through</strong></p></td><td><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Indicates whether or not cache write-through is enabled for the virtual disk</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>