nst5100-disk-nocache-15_1TB_SATA_drives VMware testing on CentOS 6.4 (Final) via the Phoronix Test Suite. Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 @ 2.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 1100GB Virtual disk OS: CentOS 6.4 (Final), Kernel: 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 46.87 |================================== Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 486.69 |================================= SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 859.98 |================================= FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 10.93 |================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 86.66 |================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 158.65 |================================= Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 127.70 |================================= Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 9.98 |=================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 112.13 |================================= IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 79.01 |================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 5369.30 |================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 4.60 |=================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 96.53 |================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 58.28 |================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 250.59 |================================= Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 23.36 |================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 2907 |=================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 18.95 |================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2440 0 . 11471.22 |===============================