by David | May 5, 2015 | Performance, SQL Server, Storage, Technology
My recent post on using the new DiskSpd utility to help you benchmark your storage is a great primer on how to use DiskSpd. But… what if you want to run multiple tests? For example, what if you want to run both read and write tests with a varying degree of...
by David | Apr 1, 2015 | Performance, SQL Server, Storage, Technology
As I mentioned in my storage benchmarking post, storage performance is one of the critical infrastructure components underneath a mission-critical SQL Server. My defacto storage benchmarking utility has been recently updated. Last October, Microsoft released a great...
by David | Dec 15, 2014 | SQL Server, Storage, Technology
You should benchmark your storage immediately. If you are a database administrator, you should benchmark it yesterday. And today. And next week. Well, that’s exaggerating things a bit… but storage performance should be at the core of your ongoing...
