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Where is the vSAN storage performance proactive test in vSphere 6.5 U1 patch 02?

Duncan Epping · Jan 16, 2018 ·

I had some customers asking where the storage performance proactive test and the multicast proactive test was in the latest release of vSAN. In the past this is what the UI looked like when they would go to the Proactive Test section:

proactive test disappeared

But now it looks like this:

proactive test disappeared

What happened? Well, two tests have been removed. I guess most people will understand why the Multicast test has been removed, with the disappearance of Multicast in vSAN the test was not needed any longer. To be clear, if you are running vSAN in unicast mode the test will not show, if you are running in multicast mode however then of course the test will still be shown. But what about the Storage Performance Test?

We have noticed that most customers were using HCI Bench when doing benchmarks or using their own tooling (please don’t use legacy tools). Those who were using the proactive test often drew incorrect conclusions as it does not provide the flexibility a solution like HCI Bench offers. VMware felt that HCI Bench was a more suitable solution for doing benchmarks and this is definitely VMware’s recommended solution, as such the decision was made to focus on HCI Bench from a development perspective and deprecate the perf benchmark feature in the Proactive Tests section.

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Server, Software Defined, Storage, vSAN benchmark, performance, proactive test, virtual san, vsan

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  1. John B says

    21 January, 2018 at 03:44

    Are the performance test still at least available via RVC. This change is a worse experience for us since we used the the test as a burn-in/sanity check that everything was performing as usual for new clusters. Easy to do in a couple clicks with the old test but HCIBench looks significantly more complicated/something else to maintain.

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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