File Protocol Workloads Details

File protocol workloads emulate the process of accessing one or more files across a file system on a pool of Network Attached Storage (NAS). The behavior is dependent on the metadata operations, block sizes, and other aspects negotiated by the client and NAS server. There are a number of common elements in a file workload, such as access pattern, file system, and writes and reads. Only the command or metadata differ across file protocol workloads.

For a list of unique commands for each protocol, see the section of this user guide for that particular type of workload.

WorkloadWisdom provides out of the box models for:

You can only create temporal workloads using the Workload Data Importer, or by importing a temporal workload file.