topic Load Generators / Benchmarking performance for NFS/CIFS configurations in Network and Storage Protocols https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Load-Generators-Benchmarking-performance-for-NFS-CIFS-configurations/m-p/27719#M2454 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>There are many options out there for performance benchmarking (ex. IOzone, fio, etc.) but mostly on the UNIX side and only helpful for testing block or NFS.&nbsp; On the CIFS side, it seems the choices are slim, and even slimmer when looking at something which would drive a consisten benchmark between CIFS and NFS for a given filer configuration vs. some variance (ex. PAM vs. no-PAM).</P><P></P><P>What is everyone using?&nbsp; Anyone using something like spec.org's SPEC-SFS2008 benchmark or SPC or...?&nbsp; What about hardware appliance workload generators?&nbsp; Anyone actually using SIO from NetApp (the code seems to be somewhat flawed from what I'm seeing).</P><P></P><P>Thanks!</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:15:05 GMT ggallagher 2025-06-05T07:15:05Z Load Generators / Benchmarking performance for NFS/CIFS configurations https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Load-Generators-Benchmarking-performance-for-NFS-CIFS-configurations/m-p/27719#M2454 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>There are many options out there for performance benchmarking (ex. IOzone, fio, etc.) but mostly on the UNIX side and only helpful for testing block or NFS.&nbsp; On the CIFS side, it seems the choices are slim, and even slimmer when looking at something which would drive a consisten benchmark between CIFS and NFS for a given filer configuration vs. some variance (ex. PAM vs. no-PAM).</P><P></P><P>What is everyone using?&nbsp; Anyone using something like spec.org's SPEC-SFS2008 benchmark or SPC or...?&nbsp; What about hardware appliance workload generators?&nbsp; Anyone actually using SIO from NetApp (the code seems to be somewhat flawed from what I'm seeing).</P><P></P><P>Thanks!</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:15:05 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Load-Generators-Benchmarking-performance-for-NFS-CIFS-configurations/m-p/27719#M2454 ggallagher 2025-06-05T07:15:05Z Re: Load Generators / Benchmarking performance for NFS/CIFS configurations https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Load-Generators-Benchmarking-performance-for-NFS-CIFS-configurations/m-p/27723#M2455 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>If you have a look at the notes in the powerponts slides, it says what I have done in the past.</P><P></P><P><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://communities.netapp.com/people/BrendonHiggins/blog/2009/10/21/sept-nug-meeting" target="_blank">http://communities.netapp.com/people/BrendonHiggins/blog/2009/10/21/sept-nug-meeting</A></P><P></P><P>Hope it helps</P><P>Bren</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:49:04 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Load-Generators-Benchmarking-performance-for-NFS-CIFS-configurations/m-p/27723#M2455 BrendonHiggins 2010-04-23T13:49:04Z Re: Load Generators / Benchmarking performance for NFS/CIFS configurations https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Load-Generators-Benchmarking-performance-for-NFS-CIFS-configurations/m-p/27728#M2456 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I used IOmeter to simulate CIFS.&nbsp;&nbsp; -Wei </P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 25 Apr 2010 05:14:48 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Load-Generators-Benchmarking-performance-for-NFS-CIFS-configurations/m-p/27728#M2456 lwei 2010-04-25T05:14:48Z