Network Drive Benchmarking?

[totalanni]

What software can I use to test networked drives on windows, speedwise?

 

[ripken204]

what are you trying to test?
throughput, latency, iops?

 

[totalanni]

throughput and iops

 

[ripken204]

what OS is the server and what OS is the client?

 

[MrGuvernment]

run local test first to see if the local HD are faster then your network link?

hdtach
hdtune

 

[totalanni]

OS is FreeNAS, on my ESXi host.
Three 2tb 5200 hd's...
This is without passthru of my new m1015, and each disk is a datastore assigned to freenas for software raiding...:confused2:

Here within the next 2 weeks i plan on ditching that raid, and passing the card through esxi to freenas and letting it go from there...

Just trying to get benchmarks...
Local hard drive is a m4 128gb!

 

[ripken204]

vSphere has plenty of ways to graph performance, take a look at those charts