Calculate hdisk READ / WRITE throughput (sequential IO) from AIX systems

Do you know the throughput of your disks? This time we’re going to calculate read / write throughput of hdisks from an AIX system.

• Let’s create a file for this test.

• Let’s make a sequential WRITE test.

• Now divide 2014 / “real” number to get MB/s throughput.
  In this example:

WRITE throghput is 345 MB/s

• Let’s make a sequential READ test.

• Now divide 2014 / “real” number to get MB/s throughput.
  In this example:

READ throghput is 345 MB/s