IOPS Testing and a View Environment
IOPS – Input/Output Operations Per Second – is a key factor when designing a View solution (more important than storage space even, given the various tools that deal with storage consolidation). That’s old news. What I’ve been having fun doing recently is trying to determine just what kind of IO I can expect from the various LUNs that have been carved from my SAN. I’m using pretty standard techniques here that would work for any server analysis, however I’m applying them to my virtual desktops in order to ensure that my storage can support the number of desktops that I plan to load up. We’ve probably all seen tables that reveal per disk information in a table like this (taken from Wikipedia): Device Type IOPS Interface Notes 7,200 rpm SATA drives HDD ~75-100 IOPS [2] SATA 3 Gb/s 10,000 rpm SATA drives HDD ~125-150 IOPS [2] SATA 3 Gb/s ...