title: VMware ESX Host Systems: Datastore Throughput
agents: vsphere
catalog: os/storage
license: GPLv2
distribution: check_mk
description:
 This check measures the number of read and writes bytes and the
 latency for each datastore on an ESX host system.
 You can configure levels for the read, write and latency values.

item:
 Name of the instance

discovery:
 Either one summary service is created for all datastores
 if the configuration is set to {"Summary"} or
 one service is created for each datastore if the configuration
 is set to {"Single"}.
