​Network Performance Benchmarks

Before beginning any tuning exercise, it is important to have a good baseline measurement of your network performance. In addition to an initial assessment of your specific application/workload performance, it is a good idea to also use standard network performance micro-benchmarks to verify that the network device is in a good state.

To benchmark interface speeds of 25 Gbps and higher, it is common to require that multiple traffic threads utilize the connection. The following subsections provide examples of common micro-benchmarks that are known to work well.