[NBLUG/talk] NFS Stress Test Question

[Mark Street]

http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Testing_tools

We use NFS storage repositories with our Xenserver clusters for backup 
on a regular basis for this sort of thing.  It depends on your network 
and your hardware as well.

What mount options are you using to mount these NFS shares?

Have Fun

On 2/4/2013 3:19 PM, Mike Cohen wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Long time/First time for this mailing list.
>
> I've setup an NFS server for some testing at work, and I'm looking to 
> get an idea of I/O for the NFS shares.
>
> I'm aware of iostat, and nfsstat, are there any tools that would be 
> analogous to the windows perforamce monitor type stuff, where I can 
> look at pretty graphs without too much effort?
>
> I'm trying to get a rough idea of the max iops for this setip.
>
> We'd like to use it  as a backup datastore for our VMware hosts, but 
> want to make sure that in case of massive disaster they can handle the 
> load we'd need to place on them.
>
> I've got CentOS 6 hooked up to a couple raid 10 DAS boxes. Its all 
> hardware thats out of warranty and so we cannot use it in production, 
> but its great for dr and testing.
>
> Any suggestions for NFS server performance monitoring for dummies, 
> particularly as a VMware datastore?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:52 PM, <gandalf at sonic.net 
> <mailto:gandalf at sonic.net>> wrote:
>
>     Today I went to go hook up an external modem to one of our
>     servers. It's running an older version of debian. I had forgot
>     that I have a temperature and humidity sensing system hooked up to
>     the com port. It's pretty sweet, monitors the temp on the room and
>     each individual machine and I have it hooked up to email me about
>     anything unusual and text my phone with anything really serious.
>     In the old building leaving the sever room door open was enough
>     for it to start emailing me.
>
>     Anyway, it only has one serial port and several USB ports. So two
>     solutions come to mind. One is a Serial to USB adapter, and the
>     other is getting a card with a couple of serial ports on it. I
>     wonder which course of action has the least headache involved and
>     is such hardware available locally?
>
>
>     (imagine a cute or dirty tagline here)
>
>
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