The following document describes the methodology used at MFJ Associates for running a disk I/O benchmark. This document assumes that the IOMETER software has been downloaded from www.iometer.org . IOMETER runs on Microsoft Windows as well as various flavors of Unix and Linux(referred to as *nix in this blog). It is made up of two components: iometer.exe a GUI program that only runs on Windows (which means you have to have at least 1 Windows desktop or server to run the GUI part) dynamo.exe or dynamo (on *nix) called the manager. In order to run a benchmark the Windows computer running iometer.exe must have TCP connectivity with the computer(s) where the benchmark will be performed. Both must be able to connect to one another. How to run a benchmark Here is a high level view of running a benchmark. A detailed explanation will follow. You need to start the iometer.exe program on the Windows computer. This will start the dynamo.exe program on that same compu...
