Appendix A: Obtaining Additional Performance Tools - Dell PowerVault MD3000i Tuning Manual

Dell™ PowerVault MD3000 and MD3000i Array Tuning Best Practices

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.
Name Description
I/O data rate and
IOBench fixed workload
benchmark
I/O subsystem
measurement and
Iometer
characterization
tool
File system
IOZone
benchmark tool
Tool for
measuring and
Xdd characterizing
drive subsystem
Unix/Linux
FIO benchmarking and
I/O tool
Unix/Linux
Bonnie++ Filesystem I/O
benchmark suite
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Table 3: Performance Tools
Platform
Unix/Linux
Windows,
Unix/Linux
Windows,
Unix/Linux
Windows,
Unix/Linux
I/O
Unix/Linux
Unix/Linux
Available From
http://www.acnc.com/benchmarks.html
http://www.iometer.org
http://ww.iozone.org
http://www.ioperformance.com
http://freshmeat.net/projects/fio/
http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/
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