Ceph Benchmark Tools, Part III

In this article, we will take a look at another benchmark utility, fio (Flexible I/O Tester). It is not provided by Ceph, but it can be used on more general environments including Ceph environments. In the second part of the article, we will give benchmark results with fio benchmark utility on various setup: on local disk, Ceph RBD mount, and CephFS mount to show how this utility can be used for each setup.

fio utility

On Ubuntu 22.04, you can obtain the fio tool using apt install.

sudo apt install -y fio