Tag: performance testing

First experiments with Nutanix AHV Turbo.

One of  the improvements that came along with Nutanix  AOS 5.5 was IO path optimization feature called “AHV Turbo”.

While the marketing department at Nutanix might have fallen asleep and woken up in 1990s with god-awful name like this, it is actually a GOOD feature.  Every time I hear word “Turbo” in IT related matters, it just reminds me of my first ever PC, a 286 with a “Turbo” button, which supposedly boosted performance by increasing  frequency from 8 Mhz to 12 Mhz, but did actually do diddly-squat 🙂

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How to create unrealistic hero numbers while showcasing storage performance

This is follow up to my previous post, which can be found here.

Disclaimer: following tests are done just to show how easy it is to do bogus performance testing or showcase false performance numbers and demonstrate Nutanix analytics capabilities to catch these unrealistic results. This does not represent in any shape or form normal performance of Nutanix . Nor does it imply that Nutanix is using these techniques while publishing performance numbers. This is NOT a true or realistic benchmark or should NOT be interpreted as one.

Once again I am withholding some key information about the configuration and workload characteristics. I’ve chosen to do this to comply with Nutanix EULA. This is also done to prevent anyone copying the tests and then running them on a competing product and then claiming that my box is faster than yours. Since this a bogus test, doing that would be silly, but you never know, there are plenty of crazy people to go around 🙂 Continue reading “How to create unrealistic hero numbers while showcasing storage performance” →