Tuesday Tech Tip: Benchmarking ZFS Workloads 📊

Each Tuesday, we will be releasing a tech tip video that will give users information on various topics relating to our Storinator storage servers.

Chapters:

0:00 Introduction
4:00 Table of Contents
10:40 ZFS ZIL/SLOG Explanation
14:23 ZFS Sync Write Benchmark with and without SLOG
21:25 Example Workloads
21:55 Read Caching
28:42 Best Configurations to Maximize Performance
34:28 ARC/L2ARC SLOG Sizing

This week, Mitch is back to talk about demystifying storage benchmarking for your workload on ZFS. He talks about why benchmarking storage seems pretty simple from the outside, but once you start digging into it, things can get pretty complex. Therefore, Mitch put together a demo to help users learn to benchmark for your specific workload, and not to get the biggest, most impressive numbers possible.

Check out Tom Lawrence's video from Lawrence Systems - he does a great intro into FIO and how it works, plus talks about IOPS vs throughput while giving different ways to benchmark your storage. His video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TASYaWTkg0U

As well, check Lawrence Systems' channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHkYOD-3fZbuGhwsADBd9ZQ

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