Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Vdbench notes

Two types of supported testings.  Following table shows the configuration groups for these testings.

Storage device testing File system testing
General - optional General - optional
Host Definition(HD) - optional Host Definition (HD) - optional
Storage Definition(SD) File System Definition (FSD)
Workload Definition(WD) File System Workload Definition(FSWD)
Run Definition (RD) Run Definition (RD)

Different configuration groups may be specified in one single file or multiple files (use multiple -f options to specify all of them).

Comments: a line starting with '/', '#', or '*' is a comment.
Continuation: end a line with a comma plus a whitespace.

Output file
-o dirname+   # if dirname has existed, use dirname001.
-o dirname.tod    # the directory name will be dirname.yymmdd.hhmmss

General parameters

Vdbench_global_param

Host definition

Vdbench_host_def_param

Storage definition

Vdbench_storage_def_param

Workload definition

Vdbench_workload_def

Run definition

Vdbench_run_def_param

File System Definition

Vdbench_filesystem_def_param

File System Workload Definition

Vdbench_filesystem_workload_def_param

Run definition for file system testing

Vdbench_run_def_fs_param

Resources:
Official doc: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/vdbench/vdbench502.pdf?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fvdbench%2Ffiles%2F&ts=1315925901&use_mirror=superb-sea2