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Accessing shared storage

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Next, flexVDI Agent must be aware of these disks. It periodically rescans the system to discover newly plugged disks or unplugged ones. Furthermore, it will detect multipath disks, if you configured them, and use them instead of one of their components. By default, it will discover new disk devices every 10 seconds. If you want to change this period, edit /etc/flexvdi/flexvdi-agent.conf, e.g. if you want to set a period of 30 seconds:

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Install fio on the flexVDI host

Fio is a versatile IO workload generator, also able to report the performance of the generated workload, that we will use to stress test our system.

The simplest way to install fio is with yum. Fio is included in the EPEL repository. On CentOS 7, just install the epel-release package:

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