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NVMe IO Test (LOGO)

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This test verifies the device’s IO capability by running below scenarios:

  • Block size variations

    • 512 bytes

    • 4 KB

    • 8 KB

    • 12 KB

    • 512 KB

    • 2 MB

  • SQ, CQ, Queue Size variations

  • I/O on random number of processors followed by all processors

Test details

Associated requirements

Device.Storage.ControllerDrive.NVMe.BasicFunction

See the device hardware requirements.

Platforms

Windows 8.1 x64 Windows 8.1 x86 Windows Server 2012 R2

Expected run time

~240 minutes

Categories

Certification

Type

Automated

 

Running the test

Before you run the test, complete the test setup as described in the test requirements: Hard Disk Drive Testing Prerequisites.

Troubleshooting

For troubleshooting information, see Troubleshooting Device.Storage Testing.

If the test fails to find the drive letter of the device, try to restart the machine with device attached, format and mount NTFS volume and assign drive letter, reboot machine to confirm drive letter and drive number of device are recognizable in diskmgmt.msc and then schedule the test.

More information

Command syntax

Command Description

/DriveLetter

The drive letter of the device. You can get help by running nvmeshim /DriveLetter /?

Example: D:

/DriveNumber

The drive number of the device. You can get help by running nvmeshim /DriveNumber /?

Example: 1

/Duration

I/O duration in seconds. You can get help by running nvmeshim.exe /Duration /?

/Operation QueueManagement

Run QueueManagement scenarios.

/Verbosity

The level of logging verbosity. Larger values cause more verbose output.

/Scenario All

Run all scenarios in the specified operation.

 

File list

File Location

nvmeshim.exe

<testbinroot>\NTTEST\driverstest\storage\wdk\nvme\

Enable.cmd

<testbinroot>\NTTEST\driverstest\storage\wdk\nvme\

stornvme.sys

<testbinroot>\NTTEST\driverstest\storage\wdk\nvme\

Stornvmeshim.cat

<testbinroot>\NTTEST\driverstest\storage\wdk\nvme\

Stornvmeshim.man

<testbinroot>\NTTEST\driverstest\storage\wdk\nvme\

Stornvmeshim.inf

<testbinroot>\NTTEST\driverstest\storage\wdk\nvme\

Stornvmeshim.sys

<testbinroot>\NTTEST\driverstest\storage\wdk\nvme\

 

 

 

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