VMware Cloud Community
khairulnizam
Contributor
Contributor

SAN IO Benchmarking.

Hi,

Is there any simplest way we can perform an IO benchmarking of a datastore (SAN) on a ESX3.5U5?

thanks in advance.

0 Kudos
5 Replies
AndreTheGiant
Immortal
Immortal

You can use iometer on your guest VMs.

http://www.iometer.org/

Andre

Andrew | http://about.me/amauro | http://vinfrastructure.it/ | @Andrea_Mauro
0 Kudos
khairulnizam
Contributor
Contributor

I need to run the benchmark on the ESX layer not VM and looking for a very straight forward tools.

0 Kudos
AndreTheGiant
Immortal
Immortal

Have a look at:

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/wwc_performance.pdf

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/248926

Andre

Andrew | http://about.me/amauro | http://vinfrastructure.it/ | @Andrea_Mauro
khairulnizam
Contributor
Contributor

Thanks Andre .... Smiley Happy

0 Kudos
AnatolyVilchins

Agree with Giant.

iomoeter will show you more reliable results, then benchmark.

It's better to download it from sourceforge, then form official site.

iSCSI Software Support Department

Kind Regards, Anatoly Vilchinsky
0 Kudos