Re: [Iometer-user] IOmeter Bench-marking Analysis

[Robert R. <rob...@gm...>]

I believe that all of the applications you mention will be using a file on
the file system as a data store.  They will not be using an RDBMS or
similar database server.  If that is the case and I can assume that you
will be using NTFS as your file system that will narrow the parameters a
bit.  Please let me know if my assumptions are correct and if so I can
offer some advice on what to test.  Be sure to run your tests from the
guest OS.

Best regards,
Robert


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Rizul khanna <riz...@gm...> wrote:

>
> Hello Robert,
>
> Thanks a lot for sharing interest.
>
> We will be hosting financial applications like Quickbooks, Sage, ATX,
> Peachtree, Drake and many others on these Windows based VMs. These machines
> will be used for Remote Desktop Connections via VPN/ Secured Public IP
> access.
>
> As per our observation based on I/O consumption patterns, these Windows
> 2008 R2 Datacenter based Guest machines are expected to do more than 60% of
> Read most of the times.
>
> Please let me know if you would need some more inputs from my side.
>
>
>
> *Warm Regards,*
>
> *Rizul Khanna*
>
> System Administrator
>
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>
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Robert Randall <
> rob...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> You write "Max stress".  That is a very difficult thing to understand.
>>  What applications will you be running on your HyperV guest machines?  If I
>> new that I might be able to suggest how to stress the machine.  Will the
>> guests be file servers, email servers, web servers, database servers,
>> remote desktop servers, etc?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Rizul khanna <riz...@gm...>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> Greetings.
>>>
>>> I have one concern. How to decide on the duration of the benchmark test
>>> while using IOmeter ?
>>>
>>> I am working on a New HyperV 2012 R2 Host configured with 6 Disks(4 SATA
>>> + 2 SSD) with Auto-tiering enabled between the two disk types and the
>>> volume derived out of this pool is configured with RAID 1. Thus, no
>>> striping is involved. I have been assigned to check for the Max. stress
>>> this physical host can handle.
>>>
>>> Can you please brief on what is the best possible roadmap for this, the
>>> host has 192 GB of RAM and 2*6 CPUs ? Our applications are Read-intensive,
>>> but no idea about the random/ sequential nature of the I/O and also, I have
>>> no idea about the I/O Size. What can be the duration of any such test ?
>>>
>>> Please let me know if more details would be required ? Please advise.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Warm Regards,*
>>>
>>> *Rizul Khanna*
>>>
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