using Microsoft diskspd

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Jason Melton · Aug 10, 2018

Hi,

Has anyone got any experience of using the Microsoft diskspd utility to test the storage infrastructure in Healthshare/Ensemble environment.

I am interested in getting some figures to highlight any issues with different approaches to provisioning the disks on our new environment.

I am at a loss as to what parameters I should use to give a reasonable synthetic load that will give me any indication of potential issues. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

Kind Regards,

Jason

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Mark Bolinsky · Aug 15, 2018

Hi Jason,

Thank you for your post. We provide a storage performance utility called RANREAD. This will actually use HealthShare/Ensemble (also Caché and InterSystems IRIS) to generate the workload rather than relying on an external tool to trying to simulate what HealthShare/Ensemble might be. You can find the details here in this community article here.

Kind regards,

Mark B-

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score 0 · Answer 1 · 2018-08-15T06:26:57-04:00

Hi Mark,

Ev pointed me at RANREAD via WRC. It is proving to be very useful. Is there a write equivalent? Or a mixed workload.

Cheers,

Jason

score 0 · Answer 2 · 2018-08-15T06:29:46-04:00

Hi Jason,

We are working on a similar utility for writes now to support either a solely write or a mixed read/write workload. I hope to have it posted to the community in the next few weeks.

Kind regards,

Mark B-