First, I don't want any discussion on how to make NFS with VMware perform better. No ZILs, no SLOGs, no SSDs, no BBU controllers. That stuff has been beaten to death.
Question:
I would like to perform some synthetic tests of NFS to get a picture of how it MIGHT work if I were to use it for VMware. I'm hoping it would help me (others more at this point) before they even hook up VMware.
With the limited information I've been able to find (i.e.-almost none), in theory (logically), just mounting with the 'sync' option should work.
[pre]mount -t nfs -o rw,sync storage:/mnt/DATA/vmware /path/to/mountpoint[/pre]
And then run iozone or dd.
Except I tested the theory, and I get 2-3x faster speeds than from inside of an ESXi hosted VM.
Does anyone have a better synthetic test?
Question:
I would like to perform some synthetic tests of NFS to get a picture of how it MIGHT work if I were to use it for VMware. I'm hoping it would help me (others more at this point) before they even hook up VMware.
With the limited information I've been able to find (i.e.-almost none), in theory (logically), just mounting with the 'sync' option should work.
[pre]mount -t nfs -o rw,sync storage:/mnt/DATA/vmware /path/to/mountpoint[/pre]
And then run iozone or dd.
Except I tested the theory, and I get 2-3x faster speeds than from inside of an ESXi hosted VM.
Does anyone have a better synthetic test?