Tutorial: How to Use FIO to Benchmark Cloud Servers?

Cloud service providers frequently identify host third parties by allocated resources, but variations in hardware, design, and performance can result in differing capabilities, even between similar configurations. Hence, We will need to use FIO to test the performance.

A significant part of the cloud server's overall performance comes from the read and write speed storage system. Fio, which is an I/O benchmarking and stress testing tool available on a multitude of platforms, is an excellent choice to use for this purpose. Install a file using the commands that refer to your device below.

First, install FIO

Take the operating system CentOS that comes with XRCLOUD Platform as an example:
Enter in the shell's command-line interface: yum install fio to install Fio. It can also be compiled and installed:

wget http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/fio-2.0.7.tar.gz
yum install libaio-devel
make
make install

Second, use the FIO to test the performance

Test example 1: FIO Random Read
Type the following commands in the CentOS command-line interface:

fio -filename=/dev/sdb1 -direct=1 -iodepth 1 -thread -rw=randread -ioengine=psync -bs=4k -size=32G -numjobs=32 -runtime=10 -group_reporting -name=mytest

The following are the ioengine types listed below. You can choose according to your preference:

Parameter Description:

filename=/dev/sdb test file name, usually select the data directory of the disk to be tested. Please note that it can only be a partition, not a directory. Otherwise, it will destroy the data.

direct=1 The test process bypasses the buffer provided by the machine. It makes the test results more realistic.

iodepth 1 Queue depth, which is meaningful only when using libaio. This is a parameter that can affect IOPS, usually 1.

rw=randwrite test random write I/O

rw=randrw test random write and read I/O

ioengine=psync io engine uses pync method

bs=512 The block file size of a single io is 512b

bsrange=512-2048 Same as above, specify the size range of the data block

size=32G The test file size this time is 32g, and the test is performed with 512b io each time. This size cannot exceed the size of the filename. Otherwise, an error will be reported.

numjobs=128 This test thread is 128

runtime=1000 The test time is 1000 seconds. If you do not write, you will keep dividing the 5g file into 4k until you finish writing each time.

rwmixwrite=30 In the mixed read-write mode, write accounts for 30%

group_reporting summarizes the information of each process about the displayed results.

Parameter Description:

lockmem=1g means to use 1g of memory for testing.

zero_buffers means to initialize the system buffer with 0.

nrfiles=8 indicates the number of files generated by each process.

read sequential read

write sequential write

rw, read-write sequential mixed read and write

randwrite random write

randread random read

randrw random mixed read and write

Test example 2: FIO Sequential Reading
fio -filename=/dev/sdb -direct=1 -iodepth 32 -thread -rw=read -ioengine=psync -bs=512 -size=32G -numjobs=128 -runtime=10 -group_reporting -name=mytest

Test example 3: FIO Random Write
fio -filename=/dev/sdb -direct=1 -iodepth 32 -thread -rw=randwrite -ioengine=psync -bs=512 -size=32G -numjobs=128 -runtime=10 -group_reporting -name=mytest

Test example 4: FIO Sequential Write
fio -filename=/dev/sdb -direct=1 -iodepth 32 -thread -rw=write -ioengine=psync -bs=512 -size=32G -numjobs=128 -runtime=10 -group_reporting -name=mytest

Test example 5: Mixed Random Read and Write:
fio -filename=/dev/sdb -direct=1 -iodepth 32 -thread -rw=randrw -rwmixread=70 -ioengine=psync -bs=512 -size=32G -numjobs=128 -runtime=10 -group_reporting -name=mytest -ioscheduler=noop

The following are the performance test results of XRCLOUD Server :

The tested IOPS of XRCLOUD Server can reach 210122 level, which resulted in a high performance, much higher than the other cloud service provider's performance.

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