Ya, sorry I could not be of more help.
I doubt that FIO could be compiled on raw ESXi as there is no compiler available on that from what I can tell. A statically linked one should work, but I really don’t know enough to be able to say why it could not start a job.
I do know that ESXi can pass a full device (raw disk) to a VM and that VM takes full ownership of it. So you could load a VM with CentOS or something and have FIO profile the raw device, but that is probably not going to be useful. Chances are you are looking to something a little more advanced like profile vSAN or some other form of software defined storage?
Regards,
Mark
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SW System Sr Principal Developer
Dell EMC | Cloud & Communication Service Provider Solution
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Thanks for the quick response Mark.
Yes, I was looking for documentation or guide on if fio can be compiled or installed on esxi servers.
From your response it looks like (compile or precompiled) neither works.
Thank you.
Eliezer
> On Oct 10, 2018, at 2:05 PM, Beierl, Mark <Mark.Beierl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Are you asking if FIO can be built or run on the hypervisor itself, like via ssh?
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> I have tried a test before where I statically compiled FIO and copied it to an ESXi server, but I was never able to get any jobs to start. Not sure if the kernel supports the fork() or whatever call FIO uses to spawn the job processes. So, I’m not sure it can be done. ESXi is not a general purpose OS, so it lacks some features.
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> Regards,
> Mark
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> Is fio supported on vmware esxi 5 and 6 servers? Does anyone have any
> helpful guides as to how to install it on vmware? I've searched google but
> could not find any. The only reference to fio+vmware is Disable libaio for
> ESXi build - bug#80
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> Thank you in advance.
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> Regards,
> Eliezer
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