Patrick Spinler
Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:34:54 -0800
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Oh, thanks. I'll be looking into this. - -- Pat David Boyes wrote: > On 2/5/10 7:04 PM, "Patrick Spinler" <spinler.patr...@mayo.edu> wrote: > > >> I'm doing some comparison studies on dasd / disk I/O for different >> configurations of storage and storage on different virtualization >> platforms (trying to convince management that oracle on Z is an okay >> thing). I'd really really appreciate any advice regarding how to >> structure and go about doing this testing. > > Check this link out: > > http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/orion/index.html > > Orion is a tool that Oracle wrote to allow you to test and compare > filesystem and storage subsystem configurations with a synthetic > "Oracle-like" workload without having to install the whole Oracle suite and > find a big honking database to muck about with. I've used it a couple of > times, and while it's not perfect (you still need to look at your VM > performance data), at least it's a known, comparable test workload that > you're comparing as close to apples-to-apples as you can probably get. > > I suspect that your Oracle-doubters might be more convinced if the test is > one coming from an actual Oracle-distributed tool. It's available on a bunch > of different platforms, including Linux on Z. > > Orion simulates several different kinds of common database workload > patterns, including OLTP and business intelligence/data mining applications. > If you use it, make sure you run it for at least 45-60 minutes to let all > the various levels of caching and I/O magic reordering, etc stabilize. There > are a LOT of different ones, and you want a steady-state measure as part of > the suite of measurements. > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAktwSwsACgkQNObCqA8uBsy1TwCfXl0V2sWGSdERztSKDHkpgRTx BN4AnjA/6ZZkojvrXsMxqBBnCKrbBPNs =+pUA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390