There have been several papers and blogs from Quest on the issues of benchmarking successfully, however the condition persists where people experience trying issues with Benchmark Factory and obtaining satisfactory benchmark results. I still maintain that it’s primarily attributable to a lack of proper and complete precursory work. But people generally seem to need more than a notice to prepare more, so I’ve constructed the checklist below. While you may lack the privileges to define some of these, you better be able to answer or address all the questions/issues. Otherwise you’re simply increasing the likelihood of getting suboptimal benchmark results.