README.md

Flexibe I/O Tester (FIO)

Installs and configures the FIO benchmark.

Supported Platforms

• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 bit (manually tested)

Dependencies

• apt: used to update the package list which is required (on some systems) to install build-essential
• build-essential: gcc compiler is required for building the benchmark from source

Attributes

See attributes/default.rb

Usage

Cloud WorkBench

• Create a ratio-scale metric called seq. write which reports the sequential write speed in KB/s over time
• Create a nominal-scale metric called cpu which reports the model name

FIO Reference

• Freecode: http://freecode.com/projects/fio
• Official website (repo only): http://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=summary
• Github: https://github.com/axboe/fio
• 3rd party Wiki: http://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Fio.

fio::default

Vagrant example:

config.vm.provision "chef_client" do |chef|
  chef.add_recipe '[email protected]'  # Version number is optional
  chef.json = {
    'fio' => {
      'version' => '2.1.10',
      'config' => {
        'size' => '100m',
        'refill_buffers' => '1'
      }
    }
  }
  ...
end

License and Authors

Authors: Joel Scheuner