I'd recommend a quick read through this post: http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/disk-benchmarking-with-dd-dont And then browse through the docs for these tools and pick the one that suites your needs best: http://www.iozone.org/ http://sysbench.sourceforge.net/ http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ -ryan On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay at gmail.com> wrote: > Hey folks, > > We've got some new hardware and are trying to figure out what best to > do with it. Either run CentOS right on the bare metal, or > virtualize, or several combination options. Mainly looking at : > > - CentOS on bare metal > - CentOS on ESXi 4.0 with local disk > - CentOS on ESXi with 1 VM running Openfiler to serve disk to other VMs > > And want to benchmark these 3 scenarios > > So far all we have is a dd-based disk IO benchmark. > > What else can you all recommend. > > BTW, we also ideally want to try each of the above with a Postgres DB > as well (and once without) > > thanks, > -Alan > > -- > “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” > - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091103/f2f33d6e/attachment-0005.html>