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jOwLeY

2004-08-03, 8:45 pm

All,

I am looking for a way to replicate i/o to a disk array that simulates a
current symmetrix dmx in our environment.

The aim of this is to enable me to take a look at the way that SRDF/A would
behave if I gave it a "real" workload, of differing i/o read and write sizes
(spread accross 2k, 4k, 8k, 16k and different application profiles also

Has anyone got a test plan / tool set that they use for this type of
investifation?

The end hame is to have async replication between a production and DR site
of around 500km.

Many thanks in advance,

Jo.


--voni--

2004-08-03, 8:45 pm

Try IOmeter
an the attached conf file
test with and without SRDF/A option enabled

IOmeter is at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/iometer/

if you plan to test only the link, you can make a ramdisk on the target
site.

iometer.icf
put this in an file:

'Version 1998.10.08
'Access specifications
'Access specification name,default assignment
2K OLTP,1
'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
2048,100,67,100,0,1,0,0
'Access specification name,default assignment
4K OLTP,1
'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
4096,100,67,100,0,1,0,0
'Access specification name,default assignment
8K OLTP,1
'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
8192,100,67,100,0,1,0,0
'Access specification name,default assignment
32 Byte Data Streaming Read,3
'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
32,100,100,0,0,1,0,0
'Access specification name,default assignment
32 Byte Data Streaming Write,3
'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
32,100,0,0,0,1,0,0
'Access specification name,default assignment
512 Byte Data Streaming Read,2
'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
512,100,100,0,0,1,0,0
'Access specification name,default assignment
512 Byte Data Streaming Write,2
'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
512,100,0,0,0,1,0,0
'Access specification name,default assignment
8K Data Streaming Read,3
'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
8192,100,100,0,0,1,0,0
'Access specification name,default assignment
8K Data Streaming Write,3
'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
8192,100,0,0,0,1,0,0
'Access specification name,default assignment
64K Data Streaming Read,1
'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
65536,100,100,0,0,1,0,0
'Access specification name,default assignment
64K Data Streaming Write,1
'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
65536,100,0,0,0,1,0,0
'Access specification name,default assignment
TCP/IP Proxy Transfer,3
'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
350,100,100,100,0,1,0,11264
'Access specification name,default assignment
File Server,2
'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
512,10,80,100,0,1,0,0
1024,5,80,100,0,1,0,0
2048,5,80,100,0,1,0,0
4096,60,80,100,0,1,0,0
8192,2,80,100,0,1,0,0
16384,4,80,100,0,1,0,0
32768,4,80,100,0,1,0,0
65536,10,80,100,0,1,0,0
'Access specification name,default assignment
Web Server,2
'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
512,22,100,100,0,1,0,0
1024,15,100,100,0,1,0,0
2048,8,100,100,0,1,0,0
4096,23,100,100,0,1,0,0
8192,15,100,100,0,1,0,0
16384,2,100,100,0,1,0,0
32768,6,100,100,0,1,0,0
65536,7,100,100,0,1,0,0
131072,1,100,100,0,1,0,0
524288,1,100,100,0,1,0,0
'End access specifications
'Version 1998.10.08



"jOwLeY" <jowley@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:rDUPc.40904$a8.30359@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> All,
>
> I am looking for a way to replicate i/o to a disk array that simulates a
> current symmetrix dmx in our environment.
>
> The aim of this is to enable me to take a look at the way that SRDF/A

would
> behave if I gave it a "real" workload, of differing i/o read and write

sizes
> (spread accross 2k, 4k, 8k, 16k and different application profiles also
>
> Has anyone got a test plan / tool set that they use for this type of
> investifation?
>
> The end hame is to have async replication between a production and DR

site
> of around 500km.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Jo.
>
>




jOwLeY

2004-08-04, 2:45 am

Many thanks for this Voni - problem is that this can only be run on a single
machine at a single time - I am really looking to simulate multi-node
interaction with the symmetrix, ie 50 odd computers submitting i/o to
varying FA's at the same time.

Any thoughts around this, or am I purely looking at setting up a whole heap
of machines to do this?

Many thanks,

Jo

"--voni--" <Stefan.Vonbrunn@t-online.de> wrote in message
news:cep5v9$ehn$00$1@news.t-online.com...
> Try IOmeter
> an the attached conf file
> test with and without SRDF/A option enabled
>
> IOmeter is at:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/iometer/
>
> if you plan to test only the link, you can make a ramdisk on the target
> site.
>
> iometer.icf
> put this in an file:
>
> 'Version 1998.10.08
> 'Access specifications
> 'Access specification name,default assignment
> 2K OLTP,1
> 'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
> 2048,100,67,100,0,1,0,0
> 'Access specification name,default assignment
> 4K OLTP,1
> 'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
> 4096,100,67,100,0,1,0,0
> 'Access specification name,default assignment
> 8K OLTP,1
> 'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
> 8192,100,67,100,0,1,0,0
> 'Access specification name,default assignment
> 32 Byte Data Streaming Read,3
> 'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
> 32,100,100,0,0,1,0,0
> 'Access specification name,default assignment
> 32 Byte Data Streaming Write,3
> 'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
> 32,100,0,0,0,1,0,0
> 'Access specification name,default assignment
> 512 Byte Data Streaming Read,2
> 'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
> 512,100,100,0,0,1,0,0
> 'Access specification name,default assignment
> 512 Byte Data Streaming Write,2
> 'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
> 512,100,0,0,0,1,0,0
> 'Access specification name,default assignment
> 8K Data Streaming Read,3
> 'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
> 8192,100,100,0,0,1,0,0
> 'Access specification name,default assignment
> 8K Data Streaming Write,3
> 'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
> 8192,100,0,0,0,1,0,0
> 'Access specification name,default assignment
> 64K Data Streaming Read,1
> 'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
> 65536,100,100,0,0,1,0,0
> 'Access specification name,default assignment
> 64K Data Streaming Write,1
> 'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
> 65536,100,0,0,0,1,0,0
> 'Access specification name,default assignment
> TCP/IP Proxy Transfer,3
> 'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
> 350,100,100,100,0,1,0,11264
> 'Access specification name,default assignment
> File Server,2
> 'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
> 512,10,80,100,0,1,0,0
> 1024,5,80,100,0,1,0,0
> 2048,5,80,100,0,1,0,0
> 4096,60,80,100,0,1,0,0
> 8192,2,80,100,0,1,0,0
> 16384,4,80,100,0,1,0,0
> 32768,4,80,100,0,1,0,0
> 65536,10,80,100,0,1,0,0
> 'Access specification name,default assignment
> Web Server,2
> 'size,% of size,% reads,% random,delay,burst,align,reply
> 512,22,100,100,0,1,0,0
> 1024,15,100,100,0,1,0,0
> 2048,8,100,100,0,1,0,0
> 4096,23,100,100,0,1,0,0
> 8192,15,100,100,0,1,0,0
> 16384,2,100,100,0,1,0,0
> 32768,6,100,100,0,1,0,0
> 65536,7,100,100,0,1,0,0
> 131072,1,100,100,0,1,0,0
> 524288,1,100,100,0,1,0,0
> 'End access specifications
> 'Version 1998.10.08
>
>
>
> "jOwLeY" <jowley@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:rDUPc.40904$a8.30359@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> would
> sizes
> site
>
>
>



--voni--

2004-08-06, 8:45 pm

Hi jOwLeY

Please read the manual:

http://www.iometer.org/

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs....er.pdf?rev=HEAD

You can have multiple Managers on multiple Host across multiple Platforms at
the same time or step by step

Only the GUI is Windows based.


"jOwLeY" <jowley@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:sr%Pc.44391$a8.24831@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Many thanks for this Voni - problem is that this can only be run on a

single
> machine at a single time - I am really looking to simulate multi-node
> interaction with the symmetrix, ie 50 odd computers submitting i/o to
> varying FA's at the same time.
>
> Any thoughts around this, or am I purely looking at setting up a whole

heap
> of machines to do this?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Jo
>
> "--voni--" <Stefan.Vonbrunn@t-online.de> wrote in message
> news:cep5v9$ehn$00$1@news.t-online.com...
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>
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