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March 2007 - Posts

Jetstress: You may receive ESE event ID 215.
This is a known issue in Jetstress. This is so benign that it never affects your testing in terms of correctness, performance, and security. Please, train yourself to ignore this benign error until I can make the fix available in a later web release: Read More...
Jetstress: Unevenly distributing users across storage groups.
Question: I have uneven distribution of users across storage groups. Storage group 1 has 700 GB with 739 users and storage group 2 has 350 GB with 261 users. Can I run multiple instances of JetstressWin.exe or JetstressCmd.exe (one instance per storage Read More...
Q&A: What do capacity percentage and throughput percentage do?
--- Excerpted from Jetstress CHM help documentation --- There are options to size the test databases using the percentage of the maximum storage capacity, and target I/O throughput (IOPS) by the percentage of the maximum throughput capacity of the disk Read More...
Use AdPlus to troubleshoot process hangs
AdPlus hang-mode creates a directory in the current directory (or the output directory if specified) called Hang_Mode__Date_mm-dd-yyyy__Time_HH-MM-SS. This means you can continue to run the same ADPlus command line repeatedly without losing your data. Read More...
How to pester Error Reporting immediately
1. Jetstress or Load Generator would send ‘offline’ Watson reports to the admin queue --- which is located at “ %SystemRoot%\PCHEALTH\ERRORREP\QSignoff ”--- you can send them through a file transfer service on your own. 2. The customer uses eventvwr.msc Read More...
Exchange Server Jetstress (08.01.0075)
Exchange Server Jetstress (08.01.0075) March 7, 2007. Verify the performance and stability of the disk subsystem before putting the Exchange server into a production environment. • 64-bit download • 32-bit download Here is a list of issues that are all Read More...
Jetstress: How to include your counters in performance log.
Months ago, I got a storage vender's feedback that his job will become a lot easier if he can define additional performance counters for his storage hardware to the performance log. I decided to provide him with a convenient way to add new performance Read More...
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