diff --git a/build/Dockerfile b/build/Dockerfile
index 5fc2fc45..18345f74 100644
--- a/build/Dockerfile
+++ b/build/Dockerfile
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ RUN cd inference-perf; \
 
 ARG VLLM_BENCHMARK_REPO=https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm.git
 ARG VLLM_BENCHMARK_BRANCH=main
-ARG VLLM_BENCHMARK_COMMIT=e675dda67be278d21c4ec177b2baa8b7a0550920
+ARG VLLM_BENCHMARK_COMMIT=f176443446f659dbab5315e056e605d8984fd976
 RUN git clone --branch ${VLLM_BENCHMARK_BRANCH} ${VLLM_BENCHMARK_REPO}
 RUN cd vllm; git checkout ${VLLM_BENCHMARK_COMMIT}
 # Patch the pyproject.toml to allow "pip install -e ."
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ RUN cd vllm; VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=empty pip install -e . --no-build-isolation
 # GuideLLM also requires torch, installed above
 ARG GUIDELLM_REPO=https://github.com/vllm-project/guidellm.git
 ARG GUIDELLM_BRANCH=main
-ARG GUIDELLM_COMMIT=adfa108ab1df6f2a1452d1037a71817a493303a8
+ARG GUIDELLM_COMMIT=f9f1e3181274b7fecb615158f7bde48b9d20001d
 RUN git clone --branch ${GUIDELLM_BRANCH} ${GUIDELLM_REPO}
 RUN cd guidellm; \
     git checkout ${GUIDELLM_COMMIT}; \
diff --git a/existing_stack/run_only.sh b/existing_stack/run_only.sh
index e94ab216..92549957 100755
--- a/existing_stack/run_only.sh
+++ b/existing_stack/run_only.sh
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 if uname -s | grep -qi darwin; then
-  alias sed=gsed  
+  alias sed=gsed
 fi
 
 # Constants
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ function announce {
             ;;
         *)
             echo -e "==> $(date) - ${0} - $message" >> ${logfile}
-            ;;  
+            ;;
     esac
 
 }
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ function results_dir_name {
   local workload_name="${4:+_$4}"
 
   sanitize_dir_name "${RESULTS_DIR_PREFIX}/${harness_name}_${experiment_id}${workload_name}_${stack_name}"
-} 
+}
 
 # Retrieve list of available harnesses
 function get_harness_list {
@@ -292,12 +292,15 @@ else
   if [[ "${_output_destination}" == *"://"* ]]; then
     _storage_type="cloud"
     _scheme=$(echo "${_output_destination}" | cut -d: -f1)
+    _bucket=$(echo "${_output_destination}" | cut -d ':' -f 2 | sed -e 's^//^^g' -e 's:/*$::')
     case "${_scheme}" in
       gs)
         announce "ℹ️ Verifying GCS output destination..."
         if ! command -v gcloud &> /dev/null; then
           announce "❌ 'gcloud' command not found, but is required for 'gs://' output."
           exit 1
+        else
+          is_bucket=$(gcloud storage buckets list | grep ${_bucket} || true)
         fi
         ;;
       s3)
@@ -305,6 +308,8 @@ else
         if ! command -v aws &> /dev/null; then
           announce "❌ 'aws' command not found, but is required for 's3://' output."
           exit 1
+        else
+          is_bucket=$(aws s3 ls | grep ${_bucket} || true)
         fi
         ;;
       *)
@@ -312,6 +317,14 @@ else
         exit 1
         ;;
     esac
+
+    if [[ -z $is_bucket ]]; then
+      announce "❌ ERROR: Bucket \"${_bucket}\" ('${_output_destination}') not found."
+      exit1 1
+    else
+      announce "✅ Output destination checked\""
+    fi
+
   else
     _storage_type="local"
     announce "ℹ️ Verifying local output destination '${_output_destination}'"
@@ -327,9 +340,9 @@ fi
 if [[ "$harness_parallelism" != "1" ]]; then
     announce "❌ ERROR: harness_parallelism is set to '$harness_parallelism'. Only parallelism=1 is supported."
     exit 1
-fi  
+fi
 #@TODO harness_parallelism=1 only is supported for now!!!
-#@TODO: The 'upload_results' function currently handles only one pod. 
+#@TODO: The 'upload_results' function currently handles only one pod.
 #       To support parallelism, it must collect results from all harness pods.
 
 _harness_pod_name=$(sanitize_pod_name "${HARNESS_POD_LABEL}")
@@ -345,9 +358,9 @@ _control_dir=$(realpath $(pwd)/)
 # Verify HF token secret exists
 # ========================================================
 announce "🔧 Verifying HF token secret ${endpoint_hf_token_secret} in namespace ${endpoint_namespace}"
-if $control_kubectl --namespace "$endpoint_namespace" get secret "$endpoint_hf_token_secret" 2>&1 > /dev/null; then 
+if $control_kubectl --namespace "$endpoint_namespace" get secret "$endpoint_hf_token_secret" 2>&1 > /dev/null; then
   announce "ℹ️ Using HF token secret $endpoint_hf_token_secret"
-else    
+else
   announce "❌ ERROR: could not fetch HF token secret $endpoint_hf_token_secret"
   exit 1
 fi
@@ -388,7 +401,7 @@ announce "ℹ️ ConfigMap '${harness_name}-profiles' created"
 
 
 # Create harness pod
-# ========================================================  
+# ========================================================
 _pod_name="${_harness_pod_name}"    # place holder for parallelism support
 announce "ℹ️ Creating harness pod ${_pod_name}"
 
@@ -403,7 +416,7 @@ announce "ℹ️
   Running benchmark with Experiment ID ${_uid}.
   Results will be stored in PVC ${harness_results_pvc}.
 
-  Note: 
+  Note:
     Benchmark will continue to run even on time-out or connection failure.
     Can follow progress by checking the logs (${control_kubectl} logs -f ${_pod_name} -n ${harness_namespace}).
 "
@@ -452,8 +465,8 @@ case "${_storage_type}" in
     ;;
 esac
 
-announce "✅ 
+announce "✅
   Experiment ID is ${_uid}.
-  All workloads completed. 
+  All workloads completed.
   Results should be available in ${final_msg}
-"
\ No newline at end of file
+"
diff --git a/setup/env.sh b/setup/env.sh
index c99b8ba6..5e4e118a 100644
--- a/setup/env.sh
+++ b/setup/env.sh
@@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ export LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_CPU_MEM=${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_CPU_MEM:-32Gi}
 export LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_NAMESPACE=${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_NAMESPACE:-llmdbench}
 export LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_PVC_NAME="${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_PVC_NAME:-"workload-pvc"}"
 export LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_PVC_SIZE="${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_PVC_SIZE:-20Gi}"
+export LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_OUTPUT=${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_OUTPUT:-"local"}
 export LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_SKIP_RUN=${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_SKIP_RUN:-}
 export LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_ENVVARS_TO_YAML=${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_ENVVARS_TO_YAML:-LLMDBENCH_RUN_EXPERIMENT}
 export LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_LOAD_PARALLELISM=${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_LOAD_PARALLELISM:-1}
diff --git a/setup/functions.sh b/setup/functions.sh
index c3a1e481..6e0ed139 100755
--- a/setup/functions.sh
+++ b/setup/functions.sh
@@ -243,65 +243,6 @@ function render_string {
 }
 export -f render_string
 
-function render_template {
-  local template_file_path=$1
-  local output_file_path=${2:-"none"}
-  local additional_replace_commands=${3:-"none"}
-  local cmdline_mode=${4:-0}
-  local env_var_mode=${5:-0}
-
-  rm -f $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
-  touch $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
-
-  if [[ $additional_replace_commands != "none" ]]; then
-    cat $additional_replace_commands >> $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
-  fi
-
-  for entry in $(cat ${template_file_path} | grep -v ^# | $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_SCMD -e 's^-^\n^g' -e 's^:^\n^g' -e 's^ ^\n^g' -e 's^ ^^g' -e 's^\.^\n^g' -e 's^\/^\n^g' | grep -E "REPLACE_ENV" | uniq); do
-    render_string $entry &>/dev/null
-  done
-
-  echo "s^#.*^^g" >> $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
-  if [[ $cmdline_mode -eq 1 ]]; then
-    if [[ $LLMDBENCH_CURRENT_STEP == "06" ]]; then
-      echo "  - |"
-      local spacec=$(printf '%*s' 12 '')
-    fi
-
-    if [[ $LLMDBENCH_CURRENT_STEP == "09" ]]; then
-      echo "- |"
-      local spacec=$(printf '%*s' 8 '')
-    fi
-    echo "s^REPLACE_SPACESC^$spacec^g" >> $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
-    echo "s^ --^\\n$spacec--^g" >> $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
-    echo "s^\\n^ \\\\\n^g" >> $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
-    echo "s^REPLACE_COMMA^,^g" >> $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
-  fi
-
-  if [[ $env_var_mode -eq 1 ]]; then
-    if [[ $LLMDBENCH_CURRENT_STEP == "06" ]]; then
-      local spacec=$(printf '%*s' 8 '')
-    fi
-    if [[ $LLMDBENCH_CURRENT_STEP == "09" ]]; then
-      local spacec=$(printf '%*s' 6 '')
-    fi
-    echo "s^REPLACE_SPACESC^$spacec^g" >> $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
-  fi
-
-  if [[ $output_file_path != "none" ]]; then
-    cat ${template_file_path} | $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_SCMD -f $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands > $output_file_path
-  fi
-
-  if [[ $cmdline_mode -eq 1 ]]; then
-    echo "REPLACE_SPACESC$(cat ${template_file_path})" | $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_SCMD -f $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
-  fi
-
-  if [[ $env_var_mode -eq 1 ]]; then
-    echo "$(cat ${template_file_path} | $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_SCMD -e 's^\^^REPLACE_SPACESC^g')" | $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_SCMD -e '1s^REPLACE_SPACESC^^' | $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_SCMD -f $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
-  fi
-}
-export -f render_template
-
 function not_valid_ip {
 
     local  ip=$1
@@ -483,7 +424,7 @@ function deploy_harness_config {
         fi
         announce "✅ All benchmark pods completed"
 
-        announce "🏗️ Collecting results for pods with label \"app=${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_POD_LABEL}\"..."
+        announce "🏗️  Collecting results for pods with label \"app=${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_POD_LABEL}\"..."
         for i in $(seq 1 "$LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_LOAD_PARALLELISM"); do
             # Per-pod directories
             pod_results_dir="${local_results_dir}_${i}"
@@ -504,6 +445,8 @@ function deploy_harness_config {
             if [[ -d ${pod_results_dir}/analysis && $LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_DEBUG -eq 0 && ${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_WAIT_TIMEOUT} -ne 0 ]]; then
                 llmdbench_execute_cmd "$copy_analysis_cmd" ${LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_DRY_RUN} ${LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_VERBOSE}
             fi
+
+            upload_results ${pod_results_dir}
         done
         announce "✅ Collected results for pods with label \"app=${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_POD_LABEL}\" at: \"${LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR}/results/\""
         announce "✅ Collected analysis for pods with label \"app=${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_POD_LABEL}\" at: \"${LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR}/analysis/\""
@@ -537,13 +480,14 @@ function capture_pod_logs {
       pod_results_dir="${local_results_dir}_${i}"
       pod_analysis_dir="${local_analysis_dir}_${i}"
 
-      announce "ℹ️ Capturing the current status of all pods in namespace \"$LLMDBENCH_VLLM_COMMON_NAMESPACE\" to ${pod_results_dir}/pod_status.txt ..."
+      announce "🏗️ Capturing the current status of all pods in namespace \"$LLMDBENCH_VLLM_COMMON_NAMESPACE\" to ${pod_results_dir}/pod_status.txt ..."
       llmdbench_execute_cmd "${LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_KCMD} --namespace $LLMDBENCH_VLLM_COMMON_NAMESPACE get pods -o wide > ${pod_results_dir}/pod_status.txt" \
       ${LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_DRY_RUN} \
       ${LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_VERBOSE}
-      announce "✅ Pod status captured."
+      announce "✅ Pod status captured to \"${pod_results_dir}/pod_status.txt\""
+
+      announce "🏗️ Capturing logs for all pods in namespace \"$LLMDBENCH_VLLM_COMMON_NAMESPACE\" to ${pod_results_dir}/logs/ ..."
 
-      announce "ℹ️ Capturing logs for all pods in namespace \"$LLMDBENCH_VLLM_COMMON_NAMESPACE\" to ${pod_results_dir}/logs/ ..."
       mkdir -p ${pod_results_dir}/logs/
       llmdbench_execute_cmd "${LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_KCMD} --namespace $LLMDBENCH_VLLM_COMMON_NAMESPACE logs --tail=-1 --prefix=true -l llm-d.ai/model=\"$modelid_label\" > ${pod_results_dir}/logs/modelserving_pods.log"  \
       ${LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_DRY_RUN} \
@@ -556,6 +500,7 @@ function capture_pod_logs {
       llmdbench_execute_cmd "${LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_KCMD} --namespace $LLMDBENCH_VLLM_COMMON_NAMESPACE logs --tail=-1 --prefix=true -l \"app.kubernetes.io/component=inference-gateway\" > ${pod_results_dir}/logs/igw_pods.log"  \
       ${LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_DRY_RUN} \
       ${LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_VERBOSE}
+      announce "✅ Pod logs captured to \"${pod_results_dir}/logs/\""
     done
 }
 export -f capture_pod_logs
@@ -956,3 +901,136 @@ function user_has_hf_model_access {
     case "$http_code" in 200) return 0 ;; 401|403) return 1 ;; *) return 2 ;; esac
 }
 export -f user_has_hf_model_access
+
+function verify_output_destination {
+  local _output_destination=$1
+  if [[ ${_output_destination} == "local" ]]; then
+    export LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_OUTPUT_STORAGE_TYPE=local
+    return 0
+  else
+    if [[ "${_output_destination}" == *"://"* ]]; then
+      _storage_type="cloud"
+      _scheme=$(echo "${_output_destination}" | cut -d: -f1)
+      _bucket=$(echo "${_output_destination}" | cut -d ':' -f 2 | $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_SCMD -e 's^//^^g' -e 's:/*$::')
+      case "${_scheme}" in
+        gs)
+          export LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_OUTPUT_STORAGE_TYPE=gs
+          announce "ℹ️  Verifying GCS output destination..."
+          if ! command -v gcloud &> /dev/null; then
+            announce "❌ 'gcloud' command not found, but is required for 'gs://' output."
+            exit 1
+          else
+            is_bucket=$(gcloud storage buckets list | grep ${_bucket} || true)
+          fi
+          ;;
+        s3)
+          export LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_OUTPUT_STORAGE_TYPE=s3
+          announce "ℹ️  Verifying S3 output destination..."
+          if ! command -v aws &> /dev/null; then
+            announce "❌ 'aws' command not found, but is required for 's3://' output."
+            exit 1
+          else
+            is_bucket=$(aws s3 ls | grep ${_bucket} || true)
+          fi
+          ;;
+        *)
+          announce "❌ ERROR: Unsupported cloud provider scheme '${_scheme}' for destination '${_output_destination}'."
+          exit 1
+          ;;
+      esac
+
+      if [[ -z $is_bucket ]]; then
+        announce "❌ ERROR: Bucket \"${_bucket}\" ('${_output_destination}') not found."
+        exit1 1
+      else
+        announce "✅ Output destination verified\""
+      fi
+    fi
+  fi
+}
+export -f verify_output_destination
+
+function upload_results {
+  local local_results_dir=$1
+  local remote_results_dir=$(echo $local_results_dir | $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_SCMD -e "s^$LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/results/^^g")
+
+  if [[ "${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_OUTPUT_STORAGE_TYPE}" == "local" ]]; then
+    return 0
+  fi
+  case ${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_OUTPUT_STORAGE_TYPE} in
+    gs)
+      announce "☁️  Uploading results to GCS bucket ${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_OUTPUT}"
+      gcloud storage cp --recursive "${local_results_dir}/" "${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_OUTPUT}/${remote_results_dir}/"
+      ;;
+    s3)
+      announce "☁️  Uploading results to S3 bucket ${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_OUTPUT}"
+      aws s3 cp --recursive "${local_results_dir}/" "${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_OUTPUT}/${remote_results_dir}/"
+      ;;
+    local)
+      announce "ℹ️ Results saved to local folder."
+      ;;
+    *)
+      announce "❌ ERROR: unknown or unsupported storage provider \"${LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_OUTPUT_STORAGE_TYPE}\"."
+      exit 1
+      ;;
+  esac
+}
+
+function render_template {
+  local template_file_path=$1
+  local output_file_path=${2:-"none"}
+  local additional_replace_commands=${3:-"none"}
+  local cmdline_mode=${4:-0}
+  local env_var_mode=${5:-0}
+
+  rm -f $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
+  touch $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
+
+  if [[ $additional_replace_commands != "none" ]]; then
+    cat $additional_replace_commands >> $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
+  fi
+
+  for entry in $(cat ${template_file_path} | grep -v ^# | $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_SCMD -e 's^-^\n^g' -e 's^:^\n^g' -e 's^ ^\n^g' -e 's^ ^^g' -e 's^\.^\n^g' -e 's^\/^\n^g' | grep -E "REPLACE_ENV" | uniq); do
+    render_string $entry &>/dev/null
+  done
+
+  echo "s^#.*^^g" >> $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
+  if [[ $cmdline_mode -eq 1 ]]; then
+    if [[ $LLMDBENCH_CURRENT_STEP == "06" ]]; then
+      echo "  - |"
+      local spacec=$(printf '%*s' 12 '')
+    fi
+
+    if [[ $LLMDBENCH_CURRENT_STEP == "09" ]]; then
+      echo "- |"
+      local spacec=$(printf '%*s' 8 '')
+    fi
+    echo "s^REPLACE_SPACESC^$spacec^g" >> $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
+    echo "s^ --^\\n$spacec--^g" >> $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
+    echo "s^\\n^ \\\\\n^g" >> $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
+    echo "s^REPLACE_COMMA^,^g" >> $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
+  fi
+
+  if [[ $env_var_mode -eq 1 ]]; then
+    if [[ $LLMDBENCH_CURRENT_STEP == "06" ]]; then
+      local spacec=$(printf '%*s' 8 '')
+    fi
+    if [[ $LLMDBENCH_CURRENT_STEP == "09" ]]; then
+      local spacec=$(printf '%*s' 6 '')
+    fi
+    echo "s^REPLACE_SPACESC^$spacec^g" >> $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
+  fi
+
+  if [[ $output_file_path != "none" ]]; then
+    cat ${template_file_path} | $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_SCMD -f $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands > $output_file_path
+  fi
+
+  if [[ $cmdline_mode -eq 1 ]]; then
+    echo "REPLACE_SPACESC$(cat ${template_file_path})" | $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_SCMD -f $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
+  fi
+
+  if [[ $env_var_mode -eq 1 ]]; then
+    echo "$(cat ${template_file_path} | $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_SCMD -e 's^\^^REPLACE_SPACESC^g')" | $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_SCMD -e '1s^REPLACE_SPACESC^^' | $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_SCMD -f $LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_WORK_DIR/setup/sed-commands
+  fi
+}
+export -f render_template
diff --git a/setup/run.sh b/setup/run.sh
index d1ba573a..b6739a6d 100755
--- a/setup/run.sh
+++ b/setup/run.sh
@@ -52,12 +52,13 @@ function show_usage {
              -k/--pvc [name of the PVC used to store the results (default=$LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_PVC_NAME)] \n \
              -e/--experiments [path of yaml file containing a list of factors and levels for an experiment, useful for parameter sweeping (default=$LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_EXPERIMENT_TREATMENTS)] \n \
              -o/--overrides [comma-separated list of workload profile parameters to be overriden (default=$LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_EXPERIMENT_PROFILE_OVERRIDES)] \n \
+             -r/--output destination for the results. (e.g. default=$LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_OUTPUT, gs://my-bucket, s3://my-bucket)
              -z/--skip [skip the execution of the experiment, and only collect data (default=$LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_SKIP_RUN)] \n \
              -v/--verbose [print the command being executed, and result (default=$LLMDBENCH_CONTROL_VERBOSE)] \n \
              -x/--dataset [url for dataset to be replayed (default=$LLMDBENCH_RUN_DATASET_URL)] \n \
              -u/--wva [deploy model with Workload Variant Autoscaler (default=$LLMDBENCH_WVA_ENABLED)] \n \
              -j/--parallelism [number of harness pods to be created (default=$LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_LOAD_PARALLELISM)] \n \
-             -s/--wait [time to wait until the benchmark run is complete (default=$LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_WAIT_TIMEOUT, value \"0\" means "do not wait\""] \n \
+             -s/--wait [time to wait until the benchmark run is complete (default=$LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_WAIT_TIMEOUT, value \"0\" means \"do not wait\"] \n \
              -g/--envvarspod [list all environment variables which should be propagated to the harness pods (default=$LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_ENVVARS_TO_YAML)] \n \
              -d/--debug [execute harness in \"debug-mode\" (default=$LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_DEBUG)] \n \
              -h/--help (show this help)"
@@ -172,6 +173,13 @@ while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
         export LLMDBENCH_CLIOVERRIDE_RUN_DATASET_URL="$2"
         shift
         ;;
+        -r=*|--output=*)
+        export LLMDBENCH_CLIOVERRIDE_HARNESS_OUTPUT=$(echo $key | cut -d '=' -f 2)
+        ;;
+        -r|--output)
+        export LLMDBENCH_CLIOVERRIDE_HARNESS_OUTPUT="$2"
+        shift
+        ;;
         -u|--wva)
         export LLMDBENCH_WVA_ENABLED=1
         ;;
@@ -233,6 +241,8 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 export LLMDBENCH_CURRENT_STEP=99
 
+verify_output_destination $LLMDBENCH_HARNESS_OUTPUT
+
 for method in ${LLMDBENCH_DEPLOY_METHODS//,/ }; do
 
   for model in ${LLMDBENCH_DEPLOY_MODEL_LIST//,/ }; do