Quick and dirty –

To simply create a LARGE file as fast as a client can; look at the linux command ‘DD’.  There are a few free/shareware windows versions floating around over the years Goggle “Windows DD”.  I’ve used it in the past a few times to quickly generate load on a CIFS or NFS share to test I/O.   Take < 5 minutes to download and have it running - load it up on a lot of workstations at once and watch your network team call asking why you are generation so much traffic ;)

--ted

From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Rhodes, Richard L.
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 9:30 AM
To: toasters@teaparty.net
Subject: tool to generate cifs I/O load

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