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This is finally good news to those of you who want to give a try on SWAT and VDBENCH. Now Sun has made them available for public. Thanks to SPBG (Storage Performance Benchmarking Group (SPBG), especially to Henk who listen to the feedback from internal Sun and public. Awesome!!.

Please note that  “Swat and Vdbench are tools delivered and supported by the Sun Microsystems, Inc. Strategic Application Engineering (SAE) – Storage Performance Benchmarking Group (SPBG). It is the responsibility of SPBG to maintain, support, and enhance these tools, not the official Sun Service department. Additionally, the tools are supported for internal Sun use and Sun partners only – not the end users.”

This is the official statement of support and its purpose is to make clear to the end user that Sun does not support these tools in its typical product fashion. However, if the tools are used in cooperation with Sun and/or one of its partners, for example in a sale situation, or when the tools are used to resolve a customer performance, then the tools will be supported by SPBG via the Sun field representative.

How to Start?

To make it easy for you to start, later my blog will start to share you how we can use these tools to solve storage performance related. I have done several exercises to use them the past. Stay tune for next blog.

URL

Swat 3.00:

https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?ProductRef=SWAT-3.00-OTH-G-F@CDS-CDS_SMI

Vdbench 4.07:

https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?ProductRef=VDB-4.07-OTH-G-F@CDS-CDS_SMI