Performance / stress test tool for corporate environment
Before I go and build a custom solution, I was wondering if there were commercial apps available that will do performance testing for a corporate environment. I'm looking to test CPU, disk, network performance, along with boot up times and file encryption.
It seems like everything I have found online is geared towards testing gaming performance and overclocking the CPU. I need something that can test deltas after we add applications to our standard Windows 10 image.
Does anything like that exist? I did find SiSoftware Sandra which does appear to have the requirements I am looking for, but I have issues with the way the results are presented. It gives overall scores and compares them to other laptop models.
Posted Feb 1, 2017, 8:46 PM UTC
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iPerf
Sandra is of limited usefulness.
Sysbench
IOMeter
StorageMark isn't bad.
But before you run down this rabbit hole...
What are you trying to prove or diagnose?
A proper benchmark exercise could represent several full days of effort.
Thats a significant expense.
We are trying to discover any performance issues when adding new software into our standard image. We are trying to determine if a particular application will necessarily slow down any of the metrics we are capturing. So things like boot up time, time to encrypt a file, time to copy a file, etc...
Why?
Adding a permanent agent to a PC always slows it down, at least a tiny bit.
Adding one more thing to startup always slows down the user's interpretation of the boot time.
The question is, why is this important?
If you are deploying current generation hardware (Core i5, 8GB+, 256GB SSD) are should be talking about single-digit seconds of increase in load times, which are essentially meaningless unless these are critical, life-saving devices. if they are, they shouldn't be running Windows.