Webinar Overview
Benchmarking ZFS performance is more than just running a few I/O tests—without the right methodology, results can be misleading or even completely inaccurate. Many traditional benchmarking tools and approaches fail to capture how ZFS actually works, leading to flawed comparisons and incorrect conclusions.
Join us as we cut through the noise and show you how to properly measure ZFS performance, with insights from industry experts like Allan Jude and the FreeBSD/ZFS community. Whether you’re tuning ZFS for production, evaluating hardware choices, or just curious about performance, this session will help you separate real insights from misleading metrics.
Your takeaways after the webinar:
- Common mistakes in ZFS benchmarking (e.g., not accounting for the ZFS ARC, improper dataset configurations, using inappropriate tools).
- How to design benchmarks that reflect real-world performance, including database workloads, virtualization, and high-throughput applications.
- Why ZFS caching, compression, and copy-on-write impact benchmarks, and how to interpret results correctly.
- Recommended tools and methodologies for meaningful performance analysis.
Date: April 30th, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM EST
Duration: 45 minutes.
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Meet the Hosts
Principal Solutions Architect and co-Founder of Klara Inc., Allan Jude has been on the team since the beginning. Shepherding an amazing team of developers and sysadmins, he is the technical heart of our team. A community go-to person for ZFS and open source through and through, Allan enjoys spending his time improving on ZFS, FreeBSD and making open source code better.
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JT Pennington is a ZFS Solutions Engineer at Klara Inc, an avid hardware geek, photographer, and podcast producer. JT is involved in many open source projects including the Lumina desktop environment and Fedora.
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