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BOULDER, Colorado — November 27, 2007 — hyperI/O LLC, the file I/O performance monitoring expert, announced today that its industry-leading hIOmon™ File I/O Performance Monitor now enables users to display and export both file and device I/O operation metrics that have been collected by the hIOmon software during the boot startup of the Windows operating system. These metrics can be captured by hIOmon upon an individual file and device basis, with support for both “partitions/volumes” and “entire disks” at the physical device level within the operating system. Moreover, hIOmon can collect an “I/O Operation Trace” and/or summarized (i.e., aggregated) I/O operation performance metrics for user-selected files as well as devices concurrently during system boot startup. "The
boot startup process performed by Windows operating systems can impose
tremendous demands upon disk devices, as often shown by lengthy system boot
times experienced by computer users," said Tom West, President of hyperI/O
LLC. "With Version 3.6, hIOmon users can now quickly and easily capture an extensive set of I/O operation
information and performance metrics that accurately reflect the particular
demands actually placed upon their disk devices during the boot startup
process. In turn, these metrics collected by hIOmon can be used, for example, to help evaluate various
strategies and approaches, such as new disk drive types and technologies, which
are meant to reduce system boot times."
In
particular, the "summarized" file and device I/O operation performance metrics
that are uniquely collected, displayed, and exported by hIOmon can provide
significant insights into the exact nature of the I/O operation activity
performed during the system boot startup process. These metrics include
"maximum read and write I/O operation
response times", "maximum read and write I/O operation queue
depths", a variety
of "random/sequential access" statistics, "Physical Device Extended
Metrics", "System File Cache" metrics, and much more
"With
its extensive array of innovative features, hIOmon is "A Speedometer and
Odometer for your Files"™ — and for your disk devices as well," added West. hIOmon Benefits hIOmon
is a software package that provides a variety of important benefits, including
the ability to better diagnose and understand disk storage access performance
problems, to verify and ensure that the required levels of performance
(Quality-of-Service) are being met at the specific file/application level, to evaluate emerging storage technologies
(e.g., iSCSI, SATA, etc.) and proposed improvements to the performance of computer systems, and to help
reduce storage management costs.
Especially with its included support for Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI), end-users, integrators and Independent
Software Vendors alike find it easy to interface with hIOmon.
"Out-of-the-box" features also include a Java™-based GUI, an Internet
Explorer GUI in addition to CLI
support, alert capabilities with System Event Log support, both I/O trace and
summary/aggregate metrics upon an individual, specific file and device basis together with both real-time and replay
display modes, along with support for both the Windows Performance and System
Monitors and several CSV-file export capabilities.
Users/applications
armed with the
extensive set of file and device I/O performance metrics that only hIOmon provides can validate and
continually verify that those steps taken to maximize disk storage utilization
and performance are indeed of benefit. Such steps
include identifying "hot files" and moving files around the storage
hierarchy, SAN, NAS, etc. to improve performance by making the best use of newly
purchased hardware or without spending IT dollars on new hardware. Use
hIOmon to help identify those files best suited for SSD, RAM disk and other
higher performance disk solutions. Substantiate the benefits in terms of
actual performance metrics specific to key files and the associated
applications. With
its many features and capabilities (along with an extremely efficient
architecture), hIOmon answers the question: “How
fast are your files?”™ in terms of a variety of metrics, including
response time, I/O count, I/O rate, data transfer rate, system file cache
"hit"
and "miss" counts/percentages, queue depth and idle
time, random/sequential access detection plus real-time, metric-based
file/device/process "Top Ten" list sorts and more.
hIOmon
Availability and Pricing The
hIOmon File I/O Performance Monitor (a Licensed Software package available
only from hyperI/O LLC) currently
supports Microsoft® Windows® 2000, Windows XP, Windows
Server 2003, and Windows Vista™. Introductory
pricing for hIOmon starts at under $100 (USD), with volume discounts and
technical support packages available. A free 30-day, full-function evaluation copy of hIOmon
can be downloaded at the hyperI/O LLC web site (www.hyperIO.com),
along with full documentation, overview presentation, screen shots and white paper.
About hyperI/O LLC A
privately held Limited Liability Company founded in 1999 and located in Boulder,
Colorado, hyperI/O LLC offers product and service solutions that are targeted to
help address the fundamental performance gap between computer systems and
storage I/O. hyperI/O LLC has
developed and currently offers a
premier, unique software solution called hIOmon, the File I/O
Performance Monitor. Contact
Tom
West hyperI/Osm,
hIOmon™, “How fast are your files?”™, and “A
Speedometer and Odometer for your Files”™
are trademarks of hyperI/O LLC. All
other referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies.
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