Enterprise Storage Synthetic Benchmarking Guide and Best Practices. Part 3. Practical Illustration based on Benchmarking VMware vSAN Case.
Well, let's go through the points outlined in Part 1 and Part 2 and look at an example of how testing might look end-to-end.
Enterprise Storage Synthetic Benchmarking Guide and Best Practices. Part 2. Success Criteria and Benchmarking Parameters.
As I mentioned in the first part of the guide, defining the goals and success criteria is a mandatory step for a successful POC. Of course, success criteria will vary, but they all have something in common — they should follow the S.M.A.R.T. rules:
Enterprise Storage Synthetic Benchmarking Guide and Best Practices. Part 1. General Theory, Methods, and Approaches.
For more than ten years in the IT industry, I have conducted a lot of tests and proof-of-concepts (POC) of various storage systems. While it was a completely different type of storage — traditional FC-connected SAN storage, NAS, SDS (Software Defined Storage), and HCI (Hyper Converged Infrastructure) platforms, the challenges were nearly the same. And quite often I faced a situation where tests were not anyhow aligned with the business needs and even were technically incorrect which led to the impossibility to deliver any meaningful results.