March 2017
Beginner to intermediate
925 pages
18h 11m
English
There are tools such as Iozone (http://www.iozone.org/), smallfile (https://github.com/bengland2/smallfile), and Flexible IO (https://github.com/axboe/fio) available to benchmark disk performance. For this recipe, we will use FIO. For that, we need to write a job file, which mimics the workload you want to run. Using this job file, we can simulate the workload on the target. For this recipe, let's take the FIO example from the benchmark results, which IBM has published (https://github.com/thewmf/kvm-docker-comparison/tree/master/fio).
In the bare metal / VM / Docker container, install FIO and mount the disk containing a filesystem for each test under /ferrari or anything which is mentioned in the FIO job ...
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