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The following section describes the performance validation tests. The tests were performed in a Linux environment; however, it is expected that similar performance can be achieved on a SQL Server on Windows environment.
The HammerDB benchmarking and load testing tool generates an OLTP workload to an increasing number of SQL Server databases while monitoring key performance indicators. The key performance indicators include transaction rate (Transactions per Minute, or TPM) that HammerDB provides, host metrics such as CPU utilization, I/O rate and queue size, and storage metrics such as IOPS, latencies, read compared to write rate, components use, and more.