Longhorn Vs Portworx Enterprise Performance Comparison

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Starting with DigitalOcean and a clean install of RKE2.
Once Longhorn and Portworx Enterprise is deployed this are the two PVC and PODs to test with FIO.

# longhorn
kubectl apply -f - << EOF
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: fio-test-pvc
spec:
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  storageClassName: longhorn  # <-- change per CSI driver under test
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 2Gi
EOF

kubectl apply -f - << EOF
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: fio-test
  labels:
    app: fio-test
spec:
  restartPolicy: Never
  containers:
    - name: fio
      image: registry.hub.docker.com/xridge/fio:latest   # or any image with fio installed
      command: ["sleep", "1000000000"]
      volumeMounts:
        - name: test-vol
          mountPath: /data
      resources:
        requests:
          cpu: "1"
          memory: 512Mi
  volumes:
    - name: test-vol
      persistentVolumeClaim:
        claimName: fio-test-pvc
EOF

# pxe
kubectl apply -f - << EOF 
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
  name: fio-test-pvc2
spec:
  accessModes:
    - ReadWriteOnce
  storageClassName: px-csi-db
  resources:
    requests:
      storage: 2Gi
EOF

kubectl apply -f - << EOF 
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: fio-test2
  labels:
    app: fio-test2
spec:
  restartPolicy: Never
  containers:
    - name: fio
      image: registry.hub.docker.com/xridge/fio:latest   # or any image with fio installed
      command: ["sleep", "1000000000"]
      volumeMounts:
        - name: test-vol2
          mountPath: /data
      resources:
        requests:
          cpu: "1"
          memory: 512Mi
  volumes:
    - name: test-vol2
      persistentVolumeClaim:
        claimName: fio-test-pvc2
EOF

# exec into the pod
kubectl exec -it fio-test -- sh

#run FIO
fio --name=seqwrite --directory=/data --rw=write --bs=1M --size=1G --numjobs=1 --iodepth=16 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --runtime=60 --time_based --group_reporting

# exec into the pod
kubectl exec -it fio-test2 -- sh

#run FIO
fio --name=seqwrite --directory=/data --rw=write --bs=1M --size=1G --numjobs=1 --iodepth=16 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --runtime=60 --time_based --group_reporting