I've been tasked with collecting benchmarks from our clients servers so as to gain a measure as to how our software will perform on their systems.
We make BI software based on the MS SQL Server stack and it will use all the resources you can throw at it (Disk, CPU and Ram). The clients Server OS is Windows 2k8 R2
The first stage to get consistent bench mark of H/w performance and then later to collect stats based on the usage (which is client specific and we'll write our own tests for these).
I've found lots of comercial applications out there 3dMark, Passmark, Sandra (and we're happy to pay for them as needed) and a number of freebies such as IOMeter, IoZone, HDTune, Cerberus etc. But I'm not so sure if 'home pc utilities' are what I need - for example graphics on the servers is minimal to say the least :-)
I'd feel more comfortable if I had some recommendations from others who may have done this already please.