Dell PowerVault MD3000 - Manual (Page 27)

Dell™ PowerVault MD3000 and MD3000i Array Tuning Best Practices
December 2008 – Revision A01 Page 27
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++/