HP Data Protector Software Performance White Paper

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HPCreateData
The HPCreateData PAT utility is a file system generator for measuring restore performance. It is
useful in assessing the rate at which your disk subsystem can write data, which is ultimately
what will limit the restore performance. To write more than one stream, initiate multiple
instances of HPCreateData.
HPCreateData version 1.2.3 was used for testing. Figure 10 shows an example for creating
Windows test data.
Figure 10. HPCreateData for Windows example