Specifying Drive letters with fio for Windows.

fio on Windows

Download pre-compiled fio binary for Windows

Example fio windows file, single drive

This will create a 1GB file called fiofile on the F:\ Drive in Windows then read the file.  Notice that the specification is “Driveletter” “Backslash” “Colon” “Filename”

In fio terms we are “escaping” the : which fio traditionally uses as a file separator.

[global]
bs=1024k
size=1G
time_based
runtime=30
rw=read
direct=1
iodepth=8

[job1]
filename=F\:fiofile 
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Single threaded DB performance on Nutanix HCI

tl;dr

A Nutanix cluster can persist a replicated write across two nodes in around 250 uSec which is critical for single-threaded DB write workloads. The performance compares very well with hosted cloud database instances using the same class of processor (db.r5.4xlarge in the figure below). The metrics below are for SQL insert transactions not the underlying IO.

Single threaded commit heavy insert rates. Latency as seen from SQL insert statement.
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