Cisco HxBench is a storage performance testing tool that can be used to measure the storage infrastructure performance using defined test scenarios and workloads. HxBench uses the industry standard Vdbench storage performance benchmarking tool. HxBench is provided as a virtual appliance to deploy and run tests. HxBench simplifies performance benchmarking for virtualized environments.

This document describes the process of configuring a host, deploying and configuring an HxBench virtual application, setting up the HxBench virtual application on Hyper-V, configuring a virtual machine, and using the HxBench application.