VirtualMachine-AIO VMware testing on CentOS 5.8 via the Phoronix Test Suite. AIOStressTest: Processor: Intel Xeon E5450 @ 2.99GHz (2 Cores), Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DRAM, Disk: 54GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: CentOS 5.8, Kernel: 2.6.18-308.4.1.el5 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20080704, File-System: ext3, System Layer: VMware AIOStressTest2: Processor: Intel Xeon E5450 @ 2.99GHz (2 Cores), Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DRAM, Disk: 54GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: CentOS 5.8, Kernel: 2.6.18-308.4.1.el5 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20080704, File-System: ext3, System Layer: VMware AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better AIOStressTest .. 531.83 |===================================================== AIOStressTest2 . 544.00 |======================================================