Verifying IO Accelerator performance on Windows operating systems
Using Iometer to verify IO Accelerator performance on Windows operating systems
To set up an IO Accelerator to work with Iometer:
1.Ensure that you have the latest driver and firmware for the target IO Accelerator. For best results, be sure you are using a capable
2.Load Iometer and add at least eight threads and 64 outstanding I/O’s per target.
3.Select the drive to test for each thread.
4.Click the Access Specifications tab, and then select the test you want to run.
5.Modify the test configuration according to the test criteria. In this case, the configuration is set measure 4 KiB sequential throughput.
NOTE: Make sure to match the Transfer Request Size values with the Align I/Os on values in the dialog box. Do not align the I/Os on Sector Boundaries, or the performance figures might be drastically lower.
6.Select the Access Specification for each worker thread.
7.Adjust the slider bar to set the Update Frequency to one second.
8.Click the Save button, and save the test configuration file.
9.Run the configured test to fill the drive with data and get results.
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