When testing a storage system, the standard practice has long been to use an industry-standard benchmark tool such as Iometer or Vdbench to find
Benchmarking IOPS and throughput of a disk on a running instance. If you want to measure IOPS and throughput for a realistic workload on an active disk on a running instance without losing the contents of your disk, benchmark against a new directory on the existing file system.
Common SSD benchmarks measure the following: IOPS. This acronym stands for input/output operations per second. The metric measures how many reads and writes an SSD can handle per second.
iops is an IO benchmark tool that performs random reads on block devices. If an exact block size is not specified using -b, the the size starts with the physical sector size (defaulting to 4k) and doubles every iteration of the loop. You can switch the read pattern using -p toggle.
To test and benchmark FC throughput and IOPS, you need to use a performance testing tool that can generate and measure FC traffic. There are many tools available, both commercial and open source, that can perform FC performance testing. Some examples are Iometer, FIO, Vdbench, Diskspd, and SANBlaze.
Input/output performance measurement
Input/output operations per second is an input/output performance measurement used to characterize computer storage devices like hard disk drives (HDD), solid state drives (SSD), and storage area networks (SAN).
Like benchmarks, IOPS numbers published by storage device manufacturers do not directly relate to real-world application performance.
Input/output performance measurement
Input/output operations per second is an input/output performance measurement used to characterize computer storage devices like hard disk drives (HDD), solid state drives (SSD), and storage area networks (SAN).
Like benchmarks, IOPS numbers published by storage device manufacturers do not directly relate to real-world application performance.