We at the Ethernet Storage Forum heard you loud and clear. You need more info on storage performance benchmarking. Our first Webcast, “Storage Performance Benchmarking: Introduction and Fundamentals” was tremendously popular – reaching over 2x the average audience, while hundreds more have read our Q&A blog on the same topic. So, back by popular demand Mark Rogov, Advisory Systems Engineer at EMC, Ken Cantrell, Performance Engineering Manager at NetApp, and I will move past the basics to the second Webcast in this series Storage Performance Benchmarking Part 2. With a focus on System Under Test (SUT), we’ll cover:
- Commonalities and differences between basic Block and File terminology
- Basic file components and the meaning of data workloads
- Main characteristics of various workloads and their respective dependencies, assumptions and environmental components
- The complexity of the technology benchmark interpretations
- The importance to System Under Test:
- What are the elements of a SUT?
- Why are caches so important to understanding performance of a SUT?
- Bottlenecks and threads and why they matter
I hope you’ll join us on October 21st at 9:00 a.m. PT. to learn why file performance benchmarking truly is an art. My colleagues and I plan to deliver another informative and interactive hour. Please register today and bring your questions. I hope to see you there.
Update: This webcast is part of a series on storage performance benchmarking. Check out the others:
- Storage Performance Benchmarking: Introduction and Fundamentals (Download webcast slides)
- Storage Performance Benchmarking: Part 2 – Solution under Test (Download webcast slides)
- Storage Performance Benchmarking: Block Components (Download webcast slides)
- Storage Performance Benchmarking: File Components (Download webcast slides)