How do I install Fio to measure disk I/O performance?

[Saradhi.Potharaju]

AppDynamics recommends using fio, a free tool for measuring disk I/O performance. Fio is meant to be used both for benchmark and stress/hardware verification. Fedora maintains builds of fio in their Extra Packages on Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repositories.

Related Links:

• AppDynamics Controller System Requirements

• How to Enable EPEL Repository for RHEL/CentOS 7.x/6.x/5.x

• Benchmarking using fio

How to add EPEL repository to a server:

Note: Run the following as root user from the command line.

RHEL6 example:

1. Install EPEL repository.

   • wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm

     rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

2. Install fio using yum

   • yum install fio

 

RHEL7 example: 

1. Install EPEL repository.

   • wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm

   • rpm -ivh epel-release-7-9.noarch.rpm

2. Install fio using yum

   • yum install fio

 EPEL Reference https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

Published on ‎06-02-2017.

[John.Aronson]

These 2 "Related Links" are broken 

• Fio RHEL/CentOS 6 download
• Fio RHEL/CentOS 7 download

[Erin]

Thanks, John!