Questions tagged [iometer]

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VMFleet Diskspd script shows zeros in output.

Speaking shortly, I decided to stress-test my brand new 4-node S2D cluster. I started with IOMeter and got the initial results (max IOPS/Throughput on different patterns). Then I thought it would be a good idea to find IOmeter configs that would…
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IOMeter - What values should I test with?

In some ways I guess this is a piece of string question, however even if there is a "this fits most situations" answer I have no idea what it is, so... I have a SAN on evaluation, an HP P4000. I'd like to use IOMeter to do some benchmarking to see…
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Parsing iometer results

How do your visualise your iometer results?
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IOMeter showing hardly any data

I ran IOmeter on a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 server for 18 hours and when I clicked on "Stop current Test and Save Results" it stopped the worker processes (I only had 1). When looking at the results in the csv file it hardly shows anything...it…
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iometer - cpu utilization not being returned

everything I want gets picked up from the dynamo process. Although for some reason the CPU Utilization isn't being presented and recorded. Any ideas? Thank you EDIT: SYSTEM - Linux x86_64, Virtual Machine, running atop ESX4.0 on an IBM HS21 Blade
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IOmeter: Avoid caching and Raw Devices

When testing IOmeter I know always need to be avoid hitting the cache if the logical drive with the OS is testing, some I have some question about it: Do I need to avoid the memory on the controller or the machine? Let's say I have a controller…
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Measuring IOPs and comparing with IOmeter

So I've got to somehow generate IOPs using some prehistoric metrics used in IOmeter (which can't run in a 64bit ubuntu environment) The settings used in IOmeter are: 16K block size, 75% read to 25% write ratio, with 80% random distribution. How…
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why is iometer performance slower after first run?

I'm doing some benchmarking with IOMeter, and I'm seeing a consistent and susbtantial drop-off in performance after running the first test in my VMWare environments. These drop-offs are about the same on the three VMs I've tested on, which makes me…
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