FNOX FIO Disk Benchmarks
Virtual and Physical Appliance Disk Performance Testing


physical-ibm840-fc: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 3.20GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 00YJ423, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 1 x 16384 MB 2133MHz Hynix, Disk: 959GB ServeRAID M5210 + 2 x 2199GB FlashSystem-9840, Graphics: Matrox s G200eR2, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit PCIe

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-327.4.5.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768

kvm-ibm840-nocache: 

	Processor: 4 x Intel Core (Haswell) @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Red Hat KVM, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB RAM, Disk: 50GB, Audio: QEMU ID 22

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM

vmware-ibm840-fc: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DRAM, Disk: 21GB Virtual disk + 107GB Virtual disk

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1672x1254, System Layer: VMware

V7000-hdd-raid10: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DRAM, Disk: 21GB Virtual disk + 11GB Virtual disk

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1176x885, System Layer: VMware

vmware-ibm840-prod: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DRAM, Disk: 21GB Virtual disk + 11GB Virtual disk

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1176x885, System Layer: VMware


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /root/pgdisk - Result: IOPS
IOPS > Higher Is Better
physical-ibm840-fc . 102232 |==================================================
kvm-ibm840-nocache . 102184 |==================================================
vmware-ibm840-fc ... 100541 |=================================================
V7000-hdd-raid10 ... 11189  |=====
vmware-ibm840-prod . 55849  |===========================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /root/pgdisk - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
physical-ibm840-fc . 408.98 |==================================================
kvm-ibm840-nocache . 408.82 |==================================================
vmware-ibm840-fc ... 402.36 |=================================================
V7000-hdd-raid10 ... 151.02 |==================
vmware-ibm840-prod . 225.18 |============================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /root/pgdisk - Result: IOPS
IOPS > Higher Is Better
physical-ibm840-fc . 124481 |==================================================
kvm-ibm840-nocache . 112721 |=============================================
vmware-ibm840-fc ... 123678 |==================================================
V7000-hdd-raid10 ... 13730  |======
vmware-ibm840-prod . 55484  |======================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /root/pgdisk - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
physical-ibm840-fc . 500.13 |==================================================
kvm-ibm840-nocache . 427.33 |===========================================
vmware-ibm840-fc ... 494.37 |=================================================
V7000-hdd-raid10 ... 55.20  |======
vmware-ibm840-prod . 220.70 |======================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /root/pgdisk - Result: IOPS
IOPS > Higher Is Better
physical-ibm840-fc . 128150 |==================================================
kvm-ibm840-nocache . 115973 |=============================================
vmware-ibm840-fc ... 100571 |=======================================
V7000-hdd-raid10 ... 58762  |=======================
vmware-ibm840-prod . 78490  |===============================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /root/pgdisk - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
physical-ibm840-fc . 498.26 |==================================================
kvm-ibm840-nocache . 466.06 |===============================================
vmware-ibm840-fc ... 402.48 |========================================
V7000-hdd-raid10 ... 220.02 |======================
vmware-ibm840-prod . 306.78 |===============================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /root/pgdisk - Result: IOPS
IOPS > Higher Is Better
physical-ibm840-fc . 157764 |==================================================
kvm-ibm840-nocache . 148319 |===============================================
vmware-ibm840-fc ... 125302 |========================================
V7000-hdd-raid10 ... 15701  |=====
vmware-ibm840-prod . 58541  |===================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /root/pgdisk - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
physical-ibm840-fc . 644.97 |==================================================
kvm-ibm840-nocache . 586.78 |=============================================
vmware-ibm840-fc ... 499.46 |=======================================
V7000-hdd-raid10 ... 65.52  |=====
vmware-ibm840-prod . 233.65 |==================