Comments on: Asigra offers free I/O benchmarking tool for disk-based backup http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/asigra-offers-free-io-benchmarking-tool-for-disk-based-backup/ A SearchStorage.com blog. Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:59:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Craig Morgan http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/asigra-offers-free-io-benchmarking-tool-for-disk-based-backup/#comment-7327 Craig Morgan Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:22:57 +0000 http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/11/18/asigra-offers-free-io-benchmarking-tool-for-disk-based-backup/#comment-7327 Why not use Filebench (http://opensolaris.org/os/community/performance/filebench/), its open source, produces the results instantly and freely available. Along the same lines, if its raw volumes you want to test then vdbench is also available (http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdbench/). Both tools have a good track record and follow a similar pattern, enabling simple replaying of workload sets for consistent evaluation and benchmark/testing. I think the days of the "free tool" being that much of a differentiator are limited, unless this truely is the commiting of code as open source ... Asigra need to pony up more than a sales gimmick to compete ... Why not use Filebench  <a href="http://opensolaris.org/os/community/performance/filebench/" title="http://opensolaris.org/os/community/performance/filebench/" target="_blank">http://opensolaris.org/os/community/perf…</a>), its open source, produces the results instantly and freely available.

Along the same lines, if its raw volumes you want to test then vdbench is also available  <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdbench/" title="http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdbench/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdbench/</a>).

Both tools have a good track record and follow a similar pattern, enabling simple replaying of workload sets for consistent evaluation and benchmark/testing. I think the days of the “free tool” being that much of a differentiator are limited, unless this truely is the commiting of code as open source … Asigra need to pony up more than a sales gimmick to compete …

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