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A provider has ran some IOPS test on our VM (without notice) via a script in toad!?  
Is this a known application that is adequate for testing iops over VM's using local storage?

Are there alternatives?

Thanks
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ok, thanks.

Is there or can you recommend one for single host?
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ok, crystal sisk mark running, what should i be looking at?
also i assume this won't really help with esxi hosts, but standalone servers?
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ok, 3 servers, same spec all with local or DAS.

Top esxtop is running an install of oracle as i type.

the other 2 are sat there, serving!

Thoughts on the stats?
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Not really, only responding to our supplier who said we should be getting 4000 iops on our server..
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Was a leftover snapshot on the host causing the iops issue.  Was 90, with snapshot deleted ran at 4000.