Re: [Hampshire] Testing iSCSI performance

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Author: Brian Chivers
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Testing iSCSI performance
Simon Capstick wrote:
> Brian Chivers wrote:
>> I have setup a little test network with two machines connected together with iSCSI on gigabit
>> ethernet. I'd like to test the filesystem performance, the iSCSI target is an OpenFiler box & the
>> client / initiator is a Centos 5.3 machine with the iSCSI mounted as ext3.
>>
>> Has anyone got any recommendation for testing software or has anyone played around with this sort of
>> setup?
>>
>> I've looked at Iozone and it looks very good but a little too complicated for me at the moment at
>> this early stage.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Brian
>>
>
> Bonnie++ ?
>
> Simon
>


Thanks for the pointer.

I've run the tests just got to try & understand the results now :-)

Have you ever run bonnie ? any pointers as to how to interpret the results ??

Brian

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