On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 09:22:57AM -0400, Alan McKay 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) If you want to test IO performance I recommend vdbench: http://przemol.blogspot.com/2008/06/vdbench-disk-io-workload-generator.html Regards Przemyslaw Bak (przemol) -- http://przemol.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Strrraszny konkurs z Scooby-Doo! Wez udzial >> http://link.interia.pl/f2412