Can you clarify – did you need to rebuild FIO or were you just able to run it with posixaio from the Dockerfile example?
Regards,
Mark
Mark Beierl
SW System Sr Principal Developer
Dell EMC | Cloud & Communication Service Provider Solution
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posixaio engine worked!
Thank you very much Sitsofe and Mark im good to go!
> On Oct 24, 2018, at 12:05 AM, Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> lHi,
>
> If you don't need asynchrony pvsync2 tends to be good. If you do I
> think the only choice from the engines listed is posixaio...
>
> Regarding libaio, see my earlier reply to Mark...
>
> PS: VMware is spelt with a lowercase w - http://thelowercasew.com/about .
>
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 05:27, Eliezer Nebab
> <eliezer@integritech.solutions> wrote:
>>
>> Mark,
>>
>>
>> Finally had a chance to try this out this weekend.
>>
>>
>> VMWare version:
>>
>> # vmware -v
>> VMware ESXi 6.5.0 build-8294253
>>
>>
>> I built the docker file per your procedure, but I excluded the line that Sitsofe mentioned ("RUN git config --global http.sslVerify false") and started docker exactly the way you described.
>>
>> I then copied the ID:
>>
>> # docker cp 997cd757e1f1d350e353bd6b4a252c5b16497e49d0b4ed46e32273dc 6a82aa56:/fio/fio .
>> # ls -l
>> total 5832
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 341 Oct 23 22:39 Dockerfile
>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 5951600 Oct 23 22:46 fio
>>
>>
>> I scp'd the "fio" file to my esxi server.
>>
>> To my excitement, tried to run "fio" with the libaio which did not work. The only engines available out of that fio build are as follows:
>>
>> /tmp/fio --enghelp
>>
>>
>> Available IO engines:
>> cpuio
>> mmap
>> sync
>> psync
>> vsync
>> pvsync
>> pvsync2
>> null
>> net
>> netsplice
>> ftruncate
>> filecreate
>> posixaio
>> falloc
>> e4defrag
>> splice
>> mtd
>> sg
>>
>> Otherwise, fio is working just as you described. Thank you very much Mark!!!
>>
>> So, out of the engines listed above, which ioengine would be suitable to use for VMWare testing?
>
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