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A Generalized workload generator for storage IO
With help from the Nutanix X-Ray team I have created an IO “benchmark” which simulates a “General Server Virtualization” workload.…
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Advanced X-Ray: reducing runtime by re-using VMs.
How to speed up your X-ray benchmark development cycle by re-using/re-cycling benchmark VMs and more importantly data-sets.
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How to performance test Nutanix on AWS with X-ray
End to End Creation of a Nutanix Cluster on AWS and Running X-Ray
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Nutanix X-Ray video Series
A series of videos showing how to install, run, modify and analyze HCI clusters with the Nutanix X-ray tool
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How to run vdbench benchmark on any HCI with X-Ray
Many storage performance testers are familiar with vdbench, and wish to use it to test Hyper-Converged (HCI) performance. To accurately…
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Measuring CPU performance with X-Ray and pgbench.
An X-ray workload for measuring application density
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Working with fio “distribution /pereto” parameter
The fio Pareto parameter allows us to create a workload, which references a very large dataset, but specify a hotspot…
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X-Ray scenario to demonstrate Nutanix ILM behavior.
Specifically a customer wanted to see how performance changes (and how quickly) as data moves from HDD to SSD automatically…
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HCI Performance testing made easy (Part 4)
What happens when power is lost to all nodes of a HCI Cluster? Ever wondered what happens when all power…
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HCI Performance testing made easy (Part 3)
Creating a HCI benchmark to simulate multi-tennent workloads HCI deployments are typically multi-tennant and often different nodes will…
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HCI Performance testing made easy (Part 2)
A simple benchmark for Random Reads, Random Writes, Sequential Reads, Sequential Writes.
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HCI Performance testing made easy (Part 1)
How to create a customized performance test using X-ray.