Benchmarking Virtualized Mass Storage Systems
Benchmarking answers seemingly simple questions often asked by management: How long will a task take? With physical, dedicated hardware the answer was often relatively straightforward: Run a test. In a virtualized, often non-dedicated environment, e.g., clouds and shared storage, reliable benchmarks can be a challenge. Even with dedicated hardware, enterprise storage arrays with multilevel caches can complicate the process.
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