storage72814 VMware testing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.5 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540: Processor: Intel Xeon E5540 @ 2.53GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB DRAM, Disk: 86GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: VMware VMXNET3 OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.5, Kernel: 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540 . 1334.05 |==================================== SQLite 3.7.3 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540 . 53.92 |====================================== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 1 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540 . 132.91 |===================================== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 12 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540 . 537.62 |===================================== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 48 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540 . 704.79 |===================================== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 128 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540 . 938.33 |===================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540 . 250.26 |===================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540 . 457.42 |===================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540 . 4834.27 |==================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540 . 3.58 |======================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540 . 3830.74 |==================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540 . 15.68 |====================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540 . 607.89 |===================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540 . 141.21 |===================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540 . 371.46 |===================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540 . 16.06 |====================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540 . 3114 |======================================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540 . 19.23 |====================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5540 . 7664.15 |====================================