Download pre-compiled fio binary for Windows
This will create a 1GB file called fiofile on the F:\ Drive in Windows then read the file. Notice that the specification is “Driveletter” “Backslash” “Colon” “Filename”
In fio terms we are “escaping” the : which fio traditionally uses as a file separator.
[global]
bs=1024k
size=1G
time_based
runtime=30
rw=read
direct=1
iodepth=8
[job1]
filename=F\:fiofile A Nutanix cluster can persist a replicated write across two nodes in around 250 uSec which is critical for single-threaded DB write workloads. The performance compares very well with hosted cloud database instances using the same class of processor (db.r5.4xlarge in the figure below). The metrics below are for SQL insert transactions not the underlying IO.
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