That sounds like a decent idea.  SQLIO is another Microsoft tool that can do I/o benchmarking.  I usually try and use a combination of multiple tools. 

From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] on behalf of Basil [basilberntsen@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 9:55 AM
To: Rhodes, Richard L.
Cc: toasters@teaparty.net
Subject: Re: tool to generate cifs I/O load

Robocopy is what I use. Just pick a large directory with lots of small files and robocopy it. It has the side effect of being pretty representative of the worst kind of CIFS IO- relentless with tons of small files.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Rhodes, Richard L. <rrhodes@firstenergycorp.com> wrote:

I’m looking for a tool to generate a load onto a CIFS share from a Windows server.  I see lots of comments out on the internet with folks using IOMETER to do this, but when I downloaded it I found that it doesn’t support network shares.

 

Any suggestions for a Windows tool to generate I/O onto a share?

 

Thanks!

 

Rick

 

 

 

 

 

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