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Re: [Xen-users] HDD benchmarking

To: Andrew Kilham <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] HDD benchmarking
From: Michael Schmidt <michael.schmidt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 16:35:47 +0200
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Hi Andrew,

did you use LVM to provide diskspace to the DomUs, oder file-based-images?
With iostat (mostly included in package named sysstat) you can monitor the IOs and IO utilisation for each block device and partition. If you need a benchmark to simulate random IOs, i can suggest you the tool sysbench (http://sysbench.sourceforge.net/).

Best Regards

Michael Schmidt

Am 11.05.10 16:07, schrieb Andrew Kilham:
Hi,

I currently have a server with two 15,000rpm SAS drives in RAID 1. I am about to purchase a near identical server as I have run out of RAM and HDD space in my first server, and I am interested in finding out whether I can go for slower HDD's - ie I want to see if the HDD's in my current server are maxed out.

Is there any tool that I can use to benchmark/view the I/O stats of the HDD's, not for a particular domain, but rather for the entire physical server - ie I want to monitoring the physical HDD's instead of a VM's HDD's. Can I do this through dom0? Can anyone tell me the name of a program that can do this (CentOS 64bit)? And finally, is there a way that I can tell the actual max throughput of my HDD's so I can see how close to the limit they currently are?

Cheers,

Andrew

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