Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
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Category Archives: Benchmarking
New Storage Benchmarking Tool from VMware Labs
Posted by on January 10, 2011
To quote the site.. IOBlazer is a multi-platform storage stack micro-benchmark. IOBlazer runs on Linux, Windows and OSX and it is capable of generating a highly customizable workload. Parameters like IO size and pattern, burstiness (number of outstanding IOs), burst interarrival time, read vs. write mix, buffered vs. direct IO, etc., can be configured [...]
Comparing the I/O Performance of 2 or more Virtual Machines SSD, SATA & IOmeter
Posted by on November 19, 2009
I’m currently doing some work on SSD storage and virtual machines so I need an easy way of comparing I/O performance between a couple of virtual machines, each backed onto different types of storage. I normally use IOmeter for this kind of work but generally only in a standalone manner – i.e I can [...]
