How to Use Nutanix Xray for Performance Benchmarking

Nutanix provides all clients with an easy to use benchmarking toolset called Nutanix Xray. Nutanix Xray allows you to run scenarios such as VDI bootstorms, node failures, or full blown IOPS testing. In this video we walk through the entire process of getting Xray downloaded, installed, how to run scenarios, and how to compare results. In new clusters I prefer to get a baseline and sanity check by running the Four Corners performance benchmark - which is shown in this video. 0:00 - Introduction 0:26 - Download 1:43 - Upload Image 2:15 - Prepare a network 3:23 - Create the Xray VM 5:16 - Access Xray Interface 7:11 - Create cluster connection 9:06 - Start a scenario 12:39 - View Results 13:28 - Export Results 14:04 - Compare two test results 15:26 - Protip #1 16:05 - Protip #2 16:51 - Protip #3 17:24 - Protip #4 Check out my other videos and articles: ewams.net/ Follow me on twitter for content updates: twitter.com/ewams Free Nutanix training videos at NutanixIn2MinutesOrLess.com/ This video is my own, is unofficial and does not represent anyone but myself.

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