RE: [Xen-users] Xen SAN Questions

["Tait Clarridge" <Tait.Clarridge@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

True, so would running IOZONE tests be better? Because I have done a lot of 
that on these setups as well.


-----Original Message-----
From: John Madden [mailto:jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 9:45 AM
To: Tait Clarridge
Cc: Fajar A. Nugraha; xen-users list
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Xen SAN Questions

> Once I actually get the arrays setup and connected I will try a DD  
> (I am testing on two servers that are older and much slower than the  
> ones we are going to put into production as our xen hosts) and let  
> you know if the final average speed.

Keep in mind that dd is fine for testing raw sequential i/o but that  
almost nothing in the real world works this way.  (How often do you  
say to yourself "well, I need to go ahead and create an empty 16GB  
file?")

John





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John Madden
Sr. UNIX Systems Engineer
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
jmadden@xxxxxxxxxxx




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