seven-disk VMware testing on Debian 6.0.5 via the Phoronix Test Suite. seven-disk-debian: Processor: Intel Xeon X5670 @ 2.93GHz (4 Cores), Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DRAM, Disk: 32GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: Debian 6.0.5, Kernel: 3.4.6 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware seven-disk-7box: Processor: Intel Xeon X5670 @ 2.93GHz (4 Cores), Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DRAM, Disk: 21GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: Slackware 14.0, Kernel: 3.4.7 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7.1, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-debian . 170.32 |=================================================== Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better seven-disk-debian . 321.22 |=================================================== SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better seven-disk-debian . 42.69 |======================================= seven-disk-7box ... 57.02 |==================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-debian . 87.87 |==================================================== seven-disk-7box ... 86.40 |=================================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-debian . 589.26 |=============================================== seven-disk-7box ... 640.76 |=================================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-debian . 789.37 |================================================ seven-disk-7box ... 834.17 |=================================================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-debian . 824.84 |=================================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-debian . 228.82 |=================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-debian . 107.65 |=================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-debian . 114.40 |=================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-debian . 9574.30 |================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-debian . 35.53 |==================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-debian . 149.83 |=================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-debian . 108.37 |=================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better seven-disk-debian . 501.28 |=================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better seven-disk-debian . 13.36 |==================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better seven-disk-debian . 14.86 |==================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better seven-disk-debian . 9574.99 |==================================================