SQL Server Benchmark Testing - Urgent

  • Is SQLIOsim an older tool? Is SQLIOStress a newer tool? I want to stress test a SQL 2012 environment which is a VM environment.

    Also, other than HammerDB, is there another TPC-C tool which is a freeware?

    Any other ideas/tools for SQL Server bench mark testing?

    I am trying to test one of our environment which is pre-production and is a clustered environment and hooked up to SAN which is RAID-DP.

    The following are the statements I am trying to run and it errors out saying there is not enough space on the drive even though it has about a TB free.

    This is what I have in params.txt

    L:\sqlIO\testfile.dat 2 0x0 100

    This is what I have in the batch file which contains the sqlio command

    sqlio -kW -t16 -s180 -dl -o8 -frandom -b16 -BH -LS Testfile.dat

    Error is:

    do_ovlp_io: WriteFileEx: There is not enough space on disk.

    file offset high: 0x00000493 low: 0x3a54c000

    As you can see even though I say 100MB file, it creates a test file for 3.5 GB or something and finally fails saying there is not enough disk space when the L drive contains about 935GB free.

    Any ideas?

  • SQLIO (and IOMeter) just test the raw capabilities of the IO subsystem

    SQLIOSim tests SQL Server IO patterns and requirements

    For benchmarking, try this: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/technobabble-by-klee-from-kleegeek/2013/07/29/benchmark-your-sql-server-instance-with-dvdstore/. I also think Joe Chang has some benchmarking stuff you can download on http://www.qdpma.com/

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

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