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Performance
Performance Measurement Tools
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KBench: Used to benchmark cluster storage performance 
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Local Path Provisioner: Used to measure the baseline performance of the data disk 
Equinix (m3.small.x86)
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Machine: Japan/m3.small.x86 
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CPU: Intel® Xeon® E-2378G CPU @ 2.80GHz 
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RAM: 64 GiB 
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Kubernetes: v1.23.6+rke2r2 
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Nodes: 3 (each node is a master and also a worker) 
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OS: Ubuntu 22.04 / 5.15.0-33-generic 
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Storage: 1 SSD (Micron_5300_MTFD) 
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Network throughput between nodes (tested by iperf over 60 seconds): 15.0 Gbits/sec 
AWS EC2 (c5d.xlarge)
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Machine: Tokyo/c5d.xlarge 
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CPU: Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8124M CPU @ 3.00GHz 
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RAM: 8 GiB 
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Kubernetes: v1.25.10+rke2r1 
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Nodes: 3 (each node is a master and also a worker) 
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OS: Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS / 5.19.0-1025-aws 
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Storage: 1 SSD (Amazon EC2 NVMe Instance Storage/Local NVMe Storage) 
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Network throughput between nodes (tested by iperf over 60 seconds): 7.9 Gbits/sec