ZFS Network Performance
This suite of benchmarks will try to verify the network performance of a ZFS NAS server in different configurations. NAS server installed on bare metal, in a virtual machine or using Linux/Btrfs.


NAS4Free ZFS SMB: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Intel 7, Memory: x 0 DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 500GB APPLE SSD SM512E, Graphics: Intel HD 4000 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512MB, Monitor: Color LCD

	OS: OS X 10.8.2 (12C3006), Kernel: 12.2.1 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.24) (based on LLVM 3.2svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin12.2.1
Thread model: posix
 + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.6, File-System: Unknown, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800

NAS4Free ZFS NFS: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Intel 7, Memory: x 0 DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 500GB APPLE SSD SM512E, Graphics: Intel HD 4000 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512MB, Monitor: Color LCD

	OS: OS X 10.8.2 (12C3006), Kernel: 12.2.1 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.24) (based on LLVM 3.2svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin12.2.1
Thread model: posix
 + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.6, File-System: Unknown, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800

NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS NFS: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Intel 7, Memory: x 0 DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 500GB APPLE SSD SM512E, Graphics: Intel HD 4000 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512MB, Monitor: Color LCD

	OS: OS X 10.8.2 (12C3006), Kernel: 12.2.1 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.24) (based on LLVM 3.2svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin12.2.1
Thread model: posix
 + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.6, File-System: Unknown, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800

NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS SMB: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.60GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Intel 7, Memory: x 0 DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 500GB APPLE SSD SM512E, Graphics: Intel HD 4000 + NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512MB, Monitor: Color LCD

	OS: OS X 10.8.2 (12C3006), Kernel: 12.2.1 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.24) (based on LLVM 3.2svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin12.2.1
Thread model: posix
 + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.6, File-System: Unknown, Screen Resolution: 2880x1800


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
64MB Random Read - 4 Threads
MB/s > Higher Is Better
NAS4Free ZFS SMB ........... 28.17 |===========================================
NAS4Free ZFS NFS ........... 28.39 |===========================================
NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS NFS . 8.42  |=============
NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS SMB . 5.50  |========


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
64MB Random Read - 8 Threads
MB/s > Higher Is Better
NAS4Free ZFS SMB ........... 55.11 |===========================================
NAS4Free ZFS NFS ........... 45.42 |===================================
NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS NFS . 8.17  |======
NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS SMB . 5.40  |====


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
64MB Random Read - 16 Threads
MB/s > Higher Is Better
NAS4Free ZFS SMB ........... 1.33 |===================
NAS4Free ZFS NFS ........... 3.10 |============================================
NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS NFS . 1.24 |==================
NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS SMB . 1.77 |=========================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
64MB Random Write - 4 Threads
MB/s > Higher Is Better
NAS4Free ZFS SMB ........... 29.72 |===========================================
NAS4Free ZFS NFS ........... 4.59  |=======
NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS NFS . 5.13  |=======
NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS SMB . 5.59  |========


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
64MB Random Write - 8 Threads
MB/s > Higher Is Better
NAS4Free ZFS SMB ........... 3.26 |============================
NAS4Free ZFS NFS ........... 5.17 |============================================
NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS NFS . 2.98 |=========================
NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS SMB . 2.74 |=======================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
64MB Random Write - 16 Threads
MB/s > Higher Is Better
NAS4Free ZFS SMB ........... 0.93 |=====================================
NAS4Free ZFS NFS ........... 1.10 |============================================
NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS NFS . 0.83 |=================================
NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS SMB . 0.97 |=======================================


Unpacking The Linux Kernel
linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2
Seconds < Lower Is Better
NAS4Free ZFS SMB ........... 889.41 |======================================
NAS4Free ZFS NFS ........... 117.45 |=====
NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS NFS . 355.21 |===============
NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS SMB . 980.06 |==========================================


Gzip Compression
2GB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
NAS4Free ZFS SMB ........... 70.38  |===================
NAS4Free ZFS NFS ........... 18.82  |=====
NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS NFS . 101.80 |===========================
NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS SMB . 156.01 |==========================================


PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11
TPC-B Transactions Per Second
TPS > Higher Is Better
NAS4Free ZFS SMB ........... 169.70 |============
NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS NFS . 55.54  |====
NAS4Free KVMed LVM ZFS SMB . 598.72 |==========================================