Metrics to estimate (or measure) IOPs cost of types of VM

Hi,
I am involved in a project to reorganise storage for our VMs so that virtual disks are stored on the most appropriate RAID groups as we are seeing latency on some LUNs at present.
I would like to be able to estimate what the IOPs cost of a particular type of VM would be for future planning purposes. For example if we need to deploy a new Exchange server it would good to know the rough IOPs cost of that type of server before actually comissioning it so that we can start create its virtuals disks on the most suitable RAID groups. Obviously this would vary according to how much the server is being used but it would be good to know how an email server compares to a database server or compares to a file server. Does anyone know of any practical metric by which this can be measured.
Is there any information availble through vCenter? Does vCenter give you information on real time IOPs per VM?

I assume you are Anuj since this question is identical to the e-mail we got :-)
General answer for everybody:
Yes, we have an estimation tool that is used as part of the Forms2ADF assessment. While the tool is integrated with JHeadstart design-time clases, there is currently no option to run it through a JDeveloper wizard, or through the command line.
The estimation tool counts various types of forms elements, and applies estimating weighting factors to each form element. These estimating factors are different for each customer, and for each application!
We always migrate a set of selected forms (simple, average, complex) and based on the time spent on these forms and the characteristics of these forms, we set the estimating factors and extrapolate to a total migration effort by generating a spreadsheet using this estimating tool.
Steven Davelaar,
JHeadstart team.

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