Patrik Dufresne KVM testing on Debian 8.7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Boxter server: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5620 @ 2.40GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X8DTL, Chipset: Intel 5500 I/O + ICH10R, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 3 x 250GB Seagate ST250DM000-1BD14, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection OS: Debian GNU/Linux 8, Kernel: 4.4.35-2-pve (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: zfs Broker Server: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5620 @ 2.40GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X8DTL, Chipset: Intel 5500 I/O + ICH10R, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 3 x 250GB Seagate ST250DM000-1BD14, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection OS: Debian GNU/Linux 8, Kernel: 4.4.35-2-pve (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: zfs Boxter Proxmox Host: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5620 @ 2.40GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X8DTL, Chipset: Intel 5500 I/O + ICH10R, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 3 x 250GB Seagate ST250DM000-1BD14, Graphics: Matrox s MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel 82574L Gigabit Connection OS: Debian GNU/Linux 8, Kernel: 4.4.35-2-pve (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: zfs test-io-scsi-zvol: Processor: Common KVM @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 512 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 9GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Debian 8.7, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM test-io-virt-io-zvol: Processor: Common KVM @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 494MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Debian 8.7, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Boxter server ....... 22228.54 |=============================================== Boxter Proxmox Host . 22172.18 |=============================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Boxter server ....... 22109.74 |=============================================== Boxter Proxmox Host . 22003.88 |=============================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better Boxter server ....... 24613.62 |=============================================== Boxter Proxmox Host . 24522.28 |=============================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Boxter server ....... 24547.62 |=============================================== Boxter Proxmox Host . 24460.82 |=============================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Boxter server ........ 6.41 |=============== Boxter Proxmox Host .. 6.75 |================ test-io-scsi-zvol .... 20.71 |================================================= test-io-virt-io-zvol . 20.25 |================================================ Gcrypt Library 1.4.4 CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher Microseconds < Lower Is Better Boxter server ........ 3542 |================================================== Boxter Proxmox Host .. 3473 |================================================= test-io-scsi-zvol .... 3540 |================================================== test-io-virt-io-zvol . 3490 |================================================= TSCP 1.81 AI Chess Performance Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Boxter server ........ 545872 |=============================================== test-io-scsi-zvol .... 559410 |================================================ test-io-virt-io-zvol . 560415 |================================================ Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Boxter server ........ 995.20 |========================================== Boxter Proxmox Host .. 1109.26 |=============================================== test-io-scsi-zvol .... 1054.58 |============================================= test-io-virt-io-zvol . 1040.89 |============================================ 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Boxter server ........ 23825 |================================================= test-io-scsi-zvol .... 4271 |========= test-io-virt-io-zvol . 4307 |========= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Boxter server ........ 19.48 |============ Boxter Proxmox Host .. 19.48 |============ test-io-scsi-zvol .... 79.20 |================================================ test-io-virt-io-zvol . 80.40 |================================================= Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Boxter server ....... 8.10 |=================================================== Boxter Proxmox Host . 7.94 |================================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Boxter server ........ 80 |========== test-io-scsi-zvol .... 418 |=================================================== test-io-virt-io-zvol . 421 |=================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Boxter server ........ 13.22 |============================================ test-io-scsi-zvol .... 14.70 |================================================= test-io-virt-io-zvol . 14.57 |================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Boxter server ........ 22.22 |================================================= Boxter Proxmox Host .. 22.12 |================================================ test-io-scsi-zvol .... 22.39 |================================================= test-io-virt-io-zvol . 22.41 |================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Boxter server ........ 15595.20 |============================================== Boxter Proxmox Host .. 15517.35 |============================================== test-io-scsi-zvol .... 5381.83 |================ test-io-virt-io-zvol . 5348.69 |================ AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Broker Server ........ 646.06 |================================================ test-io-scsi-zvol .... 314.95 |======================= test-io-virt-io-zvol . 191.25 |============== IOzone 3.405 Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Boxter Proxmox Host . 1370.47 |================================================ test-io-scsi-zvol ... 375.62 |============= IOzone 3.405 Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Boxter Proxmox Host . 334.74 |================================================= test-io-scsi-zvol ... 257.11 |====================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Boxter Proxmox Host .. 13.63 |=============== test-io-scsi-zvol .... 43.43 |================================================= test-io-virt-io-zvol . 42.53 |================================================ LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Boxter Proxmox Host .. 456.85 |========================================== test-io-scsi-zvol .... 524.60 |================================================ test-io-virt-io-zvol . 520.90 |================================================ PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Boxter Proxmox Host .. 101832 |================================================ test-io-scsi-zvol .... 101481 |=============================================== test-io-virt-io-zvol . 102674 |================================================