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

vmware-v7000gen2-prod: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Memory: 1 x 16384 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  |==========================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod . 60360  |============================


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 |==========================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod . 240.65 |============================


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  |=====================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod . 15988  |======


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 |=====================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod . 65.84  |======


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  |=============================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod . 76183  |============================


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 |=============================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod . 299.70 |============================


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  |=================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod . 22088  |=======


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 |=================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod . 87.98  |======