Freenas 9.3 VMware and Testing

[bmac6996]

Hi.

So VMware freenas 9.3. PCI passthrough my four 5TB Hard drives for a Z2 raid. Using a M1505 card. Looks like it's all working.. Copied some files back and forth and seems to work.

Is there a good way to stress test the VM of a Freenas itself to make sure it's stable and doesn't crash thus crashing the pool? I know of ways of stress testing the hard drives itself within FreeNas to make sure they are all good which I have, but more curious about the VM of FreeNas.

I haven't green lit the VM to production so I haven't move important data to it, but since I'm new to the idea of VM'ing FreeNas wondering what I can do to make sure it's legit?

Thanks in advance.

 

[depasseg]

I would suggest trying to test the expected workload that you anticipate. Large and multiple simultaneous file transfers? Serving iscsi shares to a VM Host? And let it run in that capacity for a week.

There isn't a specific load test that I can think of.

But you can try this if you are hosting VM's: https://labs.vmware.com/flings/io-analyzer