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SQL Server IO - How well is the Disk I/O performing?

Microsoft has released a free tool - SQLIO (Download at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20163)

Intel initially has developed IOMeter which is now open source can be download at http://www.iometer.org/doc/downloads.html

Both tools are pretty easy to use. Of course, SQLIO provide more advance testing scenario by choosing the right parameter, such as number to threads, file size, read/write, random/sequential, block size, buffer cache, etc...

I've seen 2 good sites that explain pretty well with SQLIO command... pls see...
http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2127/benchmarking-sql-server-io-with-sqlio/
http://www.sqlteam.com/article/benchmarking-disk-io-performance-size-matters

However, I still no no idea what's the actual number we should be look at...

I created the batch file as shown below.

@echo off
cls
:start
echo Testing IO...
SQLIO.exe -kW -s60 -frandom -o8 -b8 -LS -Fparam.txt timeout /T 60
SQLIO.exe -kW -s60 -frandom -o8 -b256 -LS -Fparam.txt timeout /T 60
SQLIO.exe -kR -s60 -frandom -o8 -b8 -LS -Fparam.txt timeout /T 60
SQLIO.exe -kR -s60 -frandom -o8 -b256 -LS -Fparam.txt timeout /T 60
timeout 1
goto start

==END==

param.txt file content -> change the last number to indicate file size

c:\testfile.dat 2 0x0 8000
#d:\testfile.dat 2 0x0 100

Result


read read read read write write write write
8k MB/s 256k MB/s 8k MB/s 256k MB/s
1GB file 2659 20 701 175 918 7.17 337 84
Chg to 8GB file 1410 11 527 131 931 7 182 45


When you indicate different file size to test, the IOPS and throughput come back differently. However, different read/write with different block size give different number as well. If we refer to the IOPS provided by disk (according to Wikipedia.org), SAS 15k RPM should provide 175-210 IOPS. I'm using 4 SAS disk with RAID 5, and running this test with just one VM.

Now, 4x200 IOPS, 800 IOPS... Where does this 800 IOPS fit in?




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