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How to benchmark performance on an Element cluster with fio

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Applies to

  • NetApp Element software
  • NetApp SolidFire storage nodes
  • NetApp HCI storage nodes

Description

This article explains how to run performance tests on Element clusters with fio.

There are many alternative tools available but not all allow running the benchmark against multiple volumes. This is required for creating a realistic workload on multi tenant storage.

 

 

 

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