>Recently, we have used SQLIO to test IOPS on various shared drives. I was wondering if there could be some kind of related utility to test the CPU performance of various servers so we can compare the metrics between them.
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>There are certainly a bunch out there but I am interested in which one you are using that I can be assured to use a good one right at first without having to analyze about 10 of them until I find a good one.
There are test suites but production servers are pretty much impossible to test because there are lots of processes running all the time. Your best bet is to look at results from benchmarking sites, which do their best to test under controlled conditions. You can Google [relative cpu performance].
Regards. Al
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