At 05:55 PM 9/25/2001 -0700, Mark Bentley wrote:
I'm evaluating a NetApp F840C and an EMC Celerra. I'm using a benchmark program called Iozone (http://www.iozone.org/) to test NFS throughput. Are there any other benchmark programs out there anyone would suggest I try?
Depends on the type of load you're trying to simulate. There are a number of benchmarks out there that try to simulate different things. For example, postmark tries to simulate creating lots of small, short-lived files like you'd see on an e-mail server. Plain ole 'dd' is pretty good at simulating sequential I/O. You'll find a bunch of stuff at:
http://www.acnc.com/benchmarks.html
In general, however, it's best if you can benchmark the actual application you'd be using the filer with. It's quite difficult to create a simulation that accurately predicts real world performance.