diskfast Xen 4.1.3 Hypervisor testing on XCP 1.6.10-61809c via the Phoronix Test Suite. 1xSSD 128GB AMD: Processor: AMD Opteron 6348 @ 2.80GHz (4 Cores), Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 128GB Samsung SSD 840 + 320GB Western Digital WD3200AAKS-6, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection OS: XCP 1.6.10-61809c, Kernel: 2.6.32.43-0.4.1.xs1.6.10.734.170748xen (i686), Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20080704, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 640x480, System Layer: Xen 4.1.3 Hypervisor 1xSSD 128GB AMD Guest: Processor: AMD Opteron 6348 @ 2.80GHz (4 Cores), Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 23GB OS: Debian Linux 7.0, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 4.1.3 Hypervisor 1xSSD 256GB 6805E JBOD: Processor: AMD Opteron 6348 @ 2.80GHz (4 Cores), Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 128GB Samsung SSD 840 + 320GB Western Digital WD3200AAKS-6, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection OS: XCP 1.6.10-61809c, Kernel: 2.6.32.43-0.4.1.xs1.6.10.734.170748xen (i686), Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20080704, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 640x480, System Layer: Xen 4.1.3 Hypervisor 1xSSD 256GB AMD: Processor: AMD Opteron 6348 @ 2.80GHz (4 Cores), Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 128GB Samsung SSD 840 + 320GB Western Digital WD3200AAKS-6, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection OS: XCP 1.6.10-61809c, Kernel: 2.6.32.43-0.4.1.xs1.6.10.734.170748xen (i686), Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20080704, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 640x480, System Layer: Xen 4.1.3 Hypervisor 1xSSD 256GB AMD LVM: Processor: AMD Opteron 6348 @ 2.80GHz (4 Cores), Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 320GB Western Digital WD3200AAKS-6 + 256GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection OS: XCP 1.6.10-61809c, Kernel: 2.6.32.43-0.4.1.xs1.6.10.734.170748xen (i686), Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20080704, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 640x480, System Layer: Xen 4.1.3 Hypervisor 6: Processor: AMD Opteron 6348 @ 2.80GHz (4 Cores), Chipset: AMD ATI RD890 bridge + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 320GB Western Digital WD3200AAKS-6 + 256GB Samsung SSD 840, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection OS: XCP 1.6.10-61809c, Kernel: 2.6.32.43-0.4.1.xs1.6.10.734.170748xen (i686), Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20080704, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 640x480, System Layer: Xen 4.1.3 Hypervisor AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better 1xSSD 128GB AMD ........ 45.36 |=================== 1xSSD 128GB AMD Guest .. 110.88 |============================================== 1xSSD 256GB 6805E JBOD . 16.92 |======= 1xSSD 256GB AMD ........ 21.07 |========= 1xSSD 256GB AMD LVM .... 45.44 |=================== 6 ...................... 30.47 |============= Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better 1xSSD 128GB AMD ........ 249.76 |========================= 1xSSD 128GB AMD Guest .. 230.96 |======================= 1xSSD 256GB 6805E JBOD . 465.54 |============================================== 1xSSD 256GB AMD ........ 459.63 |============================================= 1xSSD 256GB AMD LVM .... 250.52 |========================= 6 ...................... 267.64 |========================== SQLite 3.7.3 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better 1xSSD 128GB AMD ........ 241.90 |===================================== 1xSSD 128GB AMD Guest .. 19.80 |=== 1xSSD 256GB 6805E JBOD . 265.99 |========================================= 1xSSD 256GB AMD ........ 298.32 |============================================== 1xSSD 256GB AMD LVM .... 279.28 |=========================================== 6 ...................... 253.82 |======================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better 1xSSD 128GB AMD ........ 2021.89 |============================== 1xSSD 128GB AMD Guest .. 3053.52 |============================================= 1xSSD 256GB 6805E JBOD . 2052.63 |============================== 1xSSD 256GB AMD ........ 2036.06 |============================== 1xSSD 256GB AMD LVM .... 2128.30 |=============================== 6 ...................... 2108.15 |=============================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better 1xSSD 128GB AMD ........ 38.74 |=============================================== 1xSSD 128GB AMD Guest .. 35.03 |========================================== 1xSSD 256GB 6805E JBOD . 19.58 |======================== 1xSSD 256GB AMD ........ 29.89 |==================================== 1xSSD 256GB AMD LVM .... 34.20 |========================================= 6 ...................... 38.60 |=============================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better 1xSSD 128GB AMD ........ 1672.33 |================================ 1xSSD 128GB AMD Guest .. 2348.12 |============================================= 1xSSD 256GB 6805E JBOD . 1754.35 |================================== 1xSSD 256GB AMD ........ 1760.83 |================================== 1xSSD 256GB AMD LVM .... 1800.23 |=================================== 6 ...................... 1778.15 |================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better 1xSSD 128GB AMD ........ 69.79 |=============================================== 1xSSD 128GB AMD Guest .. 67.48 |============================================= 1xSSD 256GB 6805E JBOD . 14.69 |========== 1xSSD 256GB AMD ........ 14.78 |========== 1xSSD 256GB AMD LVM .... 44.79 |============================== 6 ...................... 58.50 |======================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better 1xSSD 128GB AMD ........ 568.98 |============== 1xSSD 128GB AMD Guest .. 1892.20 |============================================= 1xSSD 256GB 6805E JBOD . 406.45 |========== 1xSSD 256GB AMD ........ 448.21 |=========== 1xSSD 256GB AMD LVM .... 582.38 |============== 6 ...................... 598.53 |============== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better 1xSSD 128GB AMD ........ 7099.03 |============================================= 1xSSD 128GB AMD Guest .. 6251.30 |======================================= 1xSSD 256GB 6805E JBOD . 7042.27 |============================================ 1xSSD 256GB AMD ........ 7130.50 |============================================= 1xSSD 256GB AMD LVM .... 7107.39 |============================================= 6 ...................... 7063.40 |=============================================