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It looks interesting. &nbsp;Does it actually spit out a result of what load it can handle?
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It looks interesting.  Does it actually spit out a result of what load it can handle?

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Thanks guys for the two options. &nbsp;I think JetStress is really what I'm after but I might also have a play with loadgen.
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Thanks guys for the two options.  I think JetStress is really what I'm after but I might also have a play with loadgen.

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I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a good benchmarking program for testing the performance of a system - with an Exchange focus. &nbsp;I.e. something that will replicate the transactions of a large exchange system to determine (and show my client) what hardware works best, and the effect of running inside a VM.
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I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a good benchmarking program for testing the performance of a system - with an Exchange focus.  I.e. something that will replicate the transactions of a large exchange system to determine (and show my client) what hardware works best, and the effect of running inside a VM.

Exchange hardware benchmarking

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.

Exchange

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.