This is a simple command line utility that will upload and optionally download randomly generated files of a specified size to an Azure Blob Storage account. Blobs are automatically deleted once the test has been performed.

Upload and download times will be printed to the console in a CSV format for consumption in Microsoft Excel.

Example (in powershell, printing to console and file):

AzureBlobStoreTester.exe --count=10 --accountName=(blob store account name) --accessKey=(blob store access key) --fileSize=5242880B --verify=true --delay=1000 | Tee-Object (output_file.csv)

This will upload a randonly generated 5 megabyte file 10 times, with a 1 second delay between uploads. It will also verify that the file has been successfully uploaded by downloading the file and comparing the contents using a SHA265 hash sum.

--accountName=(string) : The name of the blob storage account to use (mandatory)

--accessKey=(string) : The access key for the blob storage account to use (mandatory)

--fileSize=(n)[G|M|K|B]: The size of the random file to generate. Must end with a G (Gigabyte), M (Megabyte), K (Kilobyte) or B (Byte). (shortcut for setting --fileSizeMax and --fileSizeMin to the same value.)

--fileSizeMax=(n)[G|M|K|B]: The maximum size of the random file to generate. Must end with a G (Gigabyte), M (Megabyte), K (Kilobyte) or B (Byte) (optional, defaults to 1024 bytes)

--fileSizeMin=(n)[G|M|K|B]: The minimum size of the random file to generate. Must end with a G (Gigabyte), M (Megabyte), K (Kilobyte) or B (Byte) (optional, defaults to 1024 bytes)

--count=(n): The number of times to perform the test (optional, defaults to 1)

--delay=(n): The time to wait between runs of the test in milliseconds (optional, defaults to 30,000)

--containerName=(string) : The name of the container to store the blobs in (optional, defaults to "blobtest")

--useHttps=(true|false) : Whether to use HTTPS for transfers (optional, defaults to true)

--verify=(true | false) : Whether to download the file and verify it against the uploaded data. (optional, defaults to true)

With --verify=true --fileSize=1048576B --delay=1000 and --useHttps=true

With --verify=false --fileSize=1048576B and --useHttps=true