What benchmark would test how well my hardware rates, for my ASP.NET, SQL Server, IIS product?

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What benchmark would test how well my hardware rates, for my ASP.NET, SQL Server, IIS product?

I have two servers, one runs my code much faster than the other and I believe their configurations are close to equivalent and therefore I want to benchmark the two.

I do not want this question to become one about the hardware.

This question is asking how I would test how good my hardware rates, for my software.

In other words, a 3D benchmark doesn't accurately rate my system for an ASP.NET/SQL Server app.

Answer 1

I would say the single best solution I've found for this problem is Visual Studio Team Test Edition. You can write your stress tests in whatever .NET language you like and its learnable and discoverable. The metrics you get back from it are very informative.

There is a 90-day trial you may be able to get away with to see what I am talking about. I had such a good experience at my previous company using it we just bought it outright at my present company and another developer who had never worked with it before had stress tests up and running within a few hours.

Answer 2

I too have heard good things about VS test edition. However for testing of web apps, Jmeter is a great free tool, and quicker to get running.

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/