{"id":19,"date":"2015-05-04T15:08:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T21:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterod.azurewebsites.net\/?p=19"},"modified":"2015-05-04T15:08:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T21:08:49","slug":"run-iometer-on-an-azure-linux-vm-with-azure-premium-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.perktime.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/04\/run-iometer-on-an-azure-linux-vm-with-azure-premium-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Run IOMeter on an Azure Linux VM with Azure Premium Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had to do some IO testing for a customer with Azure Premium Storage. I was able to get some numbers using this command:
\ndd if=\/dev\/zero of=test.dat bs=1M count=10000;rm \u2013f test.dat
\nHowever, wouldn\u2019t it be cool if we could use the same IOmeter as Windows users in Linux? Well, it turns out this is actually possible!
\nI first created a 4 disk RAID 0 array on my DS3 size VM using these instructions: http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/documentation\/articles\/virtual-machines-linux-configure-raid\/<\/a>
\nOnce I had my RAID array, I then followed the instructions to add GNOME to my Linux VM: http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/cloud_solution_architect\/archive\/2015\/05\/02\/remote-desktop-to-your-linux-azure-virtual-machine.aspx<\/a>
\nI used CentOS 7.1 from the Azure VM Gallery. Unfortunately, it turns out that you can\u2019t just sudo yum install wine to get Windows application support in Linux because IOMeter is a 32-bit Win32 application and CentOS 7.1 only supports 64-bit Windows apps out of the box.
\nThis Wiki article talks about how to install IOMeter on Linux: http:\/\/www.linuxintro.org\/wiki\/Iometer<\/a>. However, there are a few issues with it. Here\u2019s what I did:
\nwget http:\/\/downloads.sourceforge.net\/project\/iometer\/iometer-stable\/2006-07-27\/iometer-2006_07_27.linux.i386-bin.tgz<\/a>
\ntar xvzf iometer-2006_07_27.linux.i386-bin.tgz
\ncd iometer-2006_07_27.linux.i386-bin
\ncd src
\nchmod +x dynamo
\nsudo yum install ld-linux.so.2
\nsudo yum install libstdc++.so.6
\nsudo .\/dynamo
\nThis guide talks about how to install Wine on CentOS 6 (also works on 7.1): http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/20971960\/the-right-way-to-install-wine-on-centos-6-64bit<\/a>. Here\u2019s what I did:
\n1) Open another terminal window
\n2) Type this in the command window to download the Wine source:
\nwget http:\/\/downloads.sourceforge.net\/project\/wine\/Source\/wine-1.7.42.tar.bz2<\/a>
\n3) Type these commands in the terminal window:
\n# sudo yum -y groupinstall 'Development Tools' <\/code>
\n# sudo yum -y install libX11-devel freetype-devel <\/code>
\n# sudo yum install alsa-lib-devel.i686 libsndfile-devel.i686 readline-devel.i686 glib2.i686 glibc-devel.i686 libgcc.i686 libstdc++-devel.i686 pulseaudio-libs-devel.i686 cmake portaudio-devel.i686 openal-soft-devel.i686 audiofile-devel.i686 freeglut-devel.i686 lcms-devel.i686 libieee1284-devel.i686 openldap-devel.i686 unixODBC-devel.i686 sane-backends-devel.i686 fontforge libgphoto2-devel.i686 isdn4k-utils-devel.i686 mesa-libGL-devel.i686 mesa-libGLU-devel.i686 libXxf86dga-devel.i686 libXxf86vm-devel.i686 giflib-devel.i686 cups-devel.i686 gsm-devel.i686 libv4l-devel.i686 fontpackages-devel ImageMagick-devel.i686 openal-soft-devel.i686 libX11-devel.i686 docbook-utils-pdf libtextcat tex-cm-lgc <\/code>
\n# sudo yum install alsa-lib-devel audiofile-devel.i686 audiofile-devel cups-devel.i686 cups-devel dbus-devel.i686 dbus-devel fontconfig-devel.i686 fontconfig-devel freetype.i686 freetype-devel.i686 freetype-devel giflib-devel.i686 giflib-devel lcms-devel.i686 lcms-devel libICE-devel.i686 libICE-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel.i686 libjpeg-turbo-devel libpng-devel.i686 libpng-devel libSM-devel.i686 libSM-devel libusb-devel.i686 libusb-devel libX11-devel.i686 libX11-devel libXau-devel.i686 libXau-devel libXcomposite-devel.i686 libXcomposite-devel libXcursor-devel.i686 libXcursor-devel libXext-devel.i686 libXext-devel libXi-devel.i686 libXi-devel libXinerama-devel.i686 libXinerama-devel libxml2-devel.i686 libxml2-devel libXrandr-devel.i686 libXrandr-devel libXrender-devel.i686 libXrender-devel libxslt-devel.i686 libxslt-devel libXt-devel.i686 libXt-devel libXv-devel.i686 libXv-devel libXxf86vm-devel.i686 libXxf86vm-devel mesa-libGL-devel.i686 mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel.i686 mesa-libGLU-devel ncurses-devel.i686 ncurses-devel openldap-devel.i686 openldap-devel openssl-devel.i686 openssl-devel zlib-devel.i686 pkgconfig sane-backends-devel.i686 sane-backends-devel xorg-x11-proto-devel glibc-devel.i686 prelink fontforge flex bison libstdc++-devel.i686 pulseaudio-libs-devel.i686 gnutls-devel.i686 libgphoto2-devel.i686 openal-soft-devel openal-soft-devel.i686 isdn4k-utils-devel.i686 gsm-devel.i686 samba-winbind libv4l-devel.i686 cups-devel.i686 libtiff-devel.i686 gstreamer-devel.i686 gstreamer-plugins-base-devel.i686 gettext-devel.i686 libmpg123-devel.i686<\/code>
\n$mkdir wine64
\n$ cd wine64
\n$ ..\/wine-1.7.42\/configure –enable-win64
\n$ make
\n$ cd ..
\n$ mkdir wine32
\n$ cd wine32
\n$ ..\/wine-1.7.42\/configure –with-wine64=..\/wine64
\n$ make
\n# sudo make install
\n# cd ..\/wine64
\n# sudo make install
\n$cd wine32
\n$wget http:\/\/downloads.sourceforge.net\/project\/iometer\/iometer-stable\/2006-07-27\/iometer-2006.07.27.win32.i386-setup.exe<\/a>
\n$wine iometer-2006.07.27.win32.i386-setup.exe
\n$ cd \u201c.wine\/drive_c\/Program Files (x86)\/Iometer.org\/Iometer 2006.07.27″
\n$sudo Iometer.exe
\nOnce IOMeter launched, I selected my RAID disk for each of the workers:
\n\"image\"<\/a>
\nWith a 4K Read Access Specification for each worker thread: (Note: <\/strong>Host cache for each data disk was set to none; these are not official benchmarks and are specific to my environment)
\n\"image\"<\/a>
\nThis is actually a littler better than the DS3 VM Specification:
\n\"image\"<\/a>
\nThe same test on a scaled up DS 13 with the same 4 disk RAID 0 array:
\n\"image\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had to do some IO testing for a customer with Azure Premium Storage. I was able to get some numbers using this command: dd if=\/dev\/zero of=test.dat bs=1M count=10000;rm \u2013f test.dat However, wouldn\u2019t it be cool if we could use the same IOmeter as Windows users in Linux? Well, it turns out this is actually … <\/p>\n

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