Harmonic ELECTRA VS - Nodebench; Overview; Operation; Launching VOS Flex Nodebench on New Hardware Resource

Chapter 7 ’Tools’ — NodeBench
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NodeBench
Overview
Deploying Electra VS on off-the-shelf servers or on a virtualized
infrastructure offers a lot of flexibility: the number of potential hardware
configurations expands dramatically, with a direct impact on solution
performances.
Before deploying Electra VS solution (virtualized or not) on a customer’s
hardware platform, a benchmark is required to assess the level of
performances which can be expected from the target servers. This is the
purpose of the VOS Flex
NodeBench.
VOS Flex
NodeBench gathers information on the hardware resources
and measures the performances of the target servers. This performance
measurement must be performed for every different hardware targets.
Operation
This section explain:
 How to launch VOS Flex NodeBench in a platform not integrated in a
Electra VS.
 How to use VOS Flex NodeBench.
Launching VOS Flex NodeBench on New Hardware Resource
1. Creating the bootable USB Flash drive
Refer to
Chapter 2 ’Installation and Startup’ , section ’Creating the
Bootable USB Flash drive’
on page 58.
2. Starting Electra VS for evaluation
a. Launch VOS Flex NodeBench from the USB flash drive
- Power down the server
- Plug the USB Flash drive in your server
- Power up the server
- At restart select the BOOT menu (F11 for HP platform)
- Boot from the key
RUN VS7000 Electra VS (for evaluation using NodeBench tool)
Install VS7000 Electra VS on Local host