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Appendix a: obtaining additional performance tools – Dell PowerVault MD3000i User Manual

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Dell™ PowerVault MD3000 and MD3000i Array Tuning Best Practices

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Appendix A: Obtaining Additional Performance Tools

Table 3

shows a number of widely available tools, benchmarks, and utilities.

Some of these tools are produced by non-profit organizations and are free.

Table 3: Performance Tools

Name

Description

Platform

Available From

IOBench

I/O data rate and

fixed workload

benchmark

Unix/Linux

http://www.acnc.com/benchmarks.html

Iometer

I/O subsystem

measurement and

characterization

tool

Windows,

Unix/Linux

http://www.iometer.org

IOZone

File system

benchmark tool

Windows,

Unix/Linux

http://ww.iozone.org

Xdd

Tool for

measuring and

characterizing

drive subsystem

I/O

Windows,

Unix/Linux

http://www.ioperformance.com

FIO

Unix/Linux

benchmarking and

I/O tool

Unix/Linux

http://freshmeat.net/projects/fio/

Bonnie++

Unix/Linux

Filesystem I/O

benchmark suite

Unix/Linux

http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/