Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Verify disk performance for SharePoint 2013 server

Storage disk performance is a critical factor for SharePoint to deliver a healthy service. Storage disk performance is measured by Input/output operations per second (IOPS). Following are some recommendation for various databases

DB

Recommended IOPS

SharePoint content database

200-4000

SharePoint configuration database

100 min

Central Administration database

100 min

Search Crawl database

3500-7000

Let’s see how to check the performance of our storage disk. Following resources can be found in this article

1. Download and extract this package

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2. Execute the PowerShell script

.\DiskPerformance.ps1 -TestFileName test.dat –TestFileSizeInGB 1 -TestFilepath C:\Test -TestMode Get-LargeIO -FastMode True -RemoveTestFile True -OutputFormat Out-GridView

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(You can perform some  IO operation on the drive while doing the operation)