I'd recommend a quick read through this post:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/disk-benchmarking-with-dd-dont">http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/disk-benchmarking-with-dd-dont</a><br><br></div>
<div>And then browse through the docs for these tools and pick the one that suites your needs best:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.iozone.org/">http://www.iozone.org/</a></div><div><a href="http://sysbench.sourceforge.net/">http://sysbench.sourceforge.net/</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/">http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-ryan</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Alan McKay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan.mckay@gmail.com">alan.mckay@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hey folks,<br>
<br>
We've got some new hardware and are trying to figure out what best to<br>
do with it. Either run CentOS right on the bare metal, or<br>
virtualize, or several combination options. Mainly looking at :<br>
<br>
- CentOS on bare metal<br>
- CentOS on ESXi 4.0 with local disk<br>
- CentOS on ESXi with 1 VM running Openfiler to serve disk to other VMs<br>
<br>
And want to benchmark these 3 scenarios<br>
<br>
So far all we have is a dd-based disk IO benchmark.<br>
<br>
What else can you all recommend.<br>
<br>
BTW, we also ideally want to try each of the above with a Postgres DB<br>
as well (and once without)<br>
<br>
thanks,<br>
-Alan<br>
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