IOMETER not showing all disks or physical drives

Jan 18

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So I went to do a benchmark of a new system and I noticed that IOMETER was only showing the C drive and not the physical disk or the shared cluster disks.

Googled this with no luck and then I did what I do with every problem I now run in to with win2k8 and I ran IOMETER as administrator which did the trick

not sure why the DAS drives were different from the C drive, but this fixed it.

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I am the Solutions Architect for Apex Learning in Seattle WA. I've been working with computers since I was 13. Started programming when I was 14. Had my first IT job as tech support at an ISP at the age of 15 and became a network admin at the age of 17. Since then I've worked at a variety of small to mid size companies supporting, maintaining and developing all aspects of IT. Mostly working with Windows based networks but have recently been working with Solaris system as well. I created this blog mostly as a place for me to take my own notes, but also share things that I had a hard time finding the info for.

Posted on January 18, 2011, in Performance, Windows Server and tagged . Bookmark the permalink. 12 Comments.

  1. avandewerdt | June 2, 2011 at 10:04 pm

    This fixed my problem! Found you by a google search… thanks for posting this…

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  2. DJRyan920 | November 2, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    Thanks! That helped me out! I put a link to this article on my little blog a doodle do too. Hope you dont mind.

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  3. Quake3Guy | November 15, 2011 at 8:14 pm

    Thank you! This was very helpful, as IOMETER does not show all disks (several missing!) when I use a normal user account.

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  4. Rickard Boman | January 20, 2012 at 9:37 am

    Had the same problem. I couldn’t see more than the system drive even though I just added a new disk to my virtual Windows Server 2008 R2 server in vSphere Client 5.0. Found this blogg post by Googeling. Starting IOmeter as Administrator solved my problem to. Thank you for posting! Saved me some swearing :-)

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  5. Akos | March 21, 2012 at 9:46 am

    Most excellent! Thanks for sharing this. Ran into the same issue just now, and you saved me a headache ;-)

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  6. gayle noble | January 25, 2013 at 7:31 pm

    This fixed the problem I installed this as an administrator but not the Administrator account. Weird – Thanks so much!!!

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  7. San | September 2, 2013 at 5:27 pm

    That fixed my problem too.. Googled it … first hit has got the helpful soultion.. thanks

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  8. Sameer | October 30, 2013 at 2:33 am

    It worked for me as well on windows 7. Thanks!

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    • Sameer | October 30, 2013 at 4:54 am

      However in my case I had to make sure that I delete the volume from Disk management GUI as well (as I saw in another post related to this topic) to make sure that it shows up in IOMeter.

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  9. ciyo.ma | January 14, 2015 at 12:15 pm

    BTW, on linux, run dynamo as root.

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