DiskSpdAuto: Automating IO performance tests and result collection using DiskSpd and PowerShell 3

DiskSpdAuto: Automating IO performance tests and result collection using DiskSpd and PowerShell
If you have followed my previous article titled IO Performance Benchmarking 101, you know that I am a big fan of using CrystalDiskMark for measuring disk IO throughput. CrystalDiskMark is a wonderful tool, but being a GUI application it is unsuitable for using in an automated environment or when you need to test several disks ...

Quirks of ZFS interoperability 3

Quirks of ZFS interoperability
My main tech project in the last few month has been an all-in-one home lab. The lab is a high-end PC running a hypervisor, which hosts VMs and provides a flexible infrastructure for experiments. One of the main components of such a setup is a storage VM that provides storage to other VMs, while giving ...