VM Comparison Virtualization Comparison Baremetal: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5440 @ 2.83GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0TT740, Chipset: Intel 5000X MCH, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 1000GB PERC 6/i, Graphics: AMD ATI ES1000 128MB, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-37-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better Baremetal . 2571.17 |========================================================== SQLite 3.7.3 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Baremetal . 10.65 |============================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 134.38 |=========================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync Files/s > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 945.67 |=========================================================== BlogBench 1.0 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 344940 |=========================================================== hdparm Timed Disk Reads Disk To Read: /dev/sda MB/s > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 128.83 |=========================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 32GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 139.47 |=========================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 128.03 |=========================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64kB - File Size: 32GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 139.23 |=========================================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64kB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 128.53 |=========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Sequential Read - Size Per Thread: 1.024 MB - Thread Count: 32 - 64 k Block Size - Total 32 GB MB/s > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 91.70 |============================================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 128 MB - Thread Count: 32 - 4 k Block Size - Total 4 GB MB/s > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 4248.86 |========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 2 MB - Thread Count: 32 - 4 k Block Size - Total 64 MB MB/s > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 853.29 |=========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64 MB - Thread Count: 16 - 4 k Block Size - Total 1 GB MB/s > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 7.27 |============================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Sequential Write - Size Per Thread: 128 MB - Thread Count: 32 - 4 k Block Size - Total 4 GB MB/s > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 126.83 |=========================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 353.40 |=========================================================== PostMark 1.51 NetApp Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 2395 |============================================================= RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 5157.28 |========================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 5317.75 |========================================================== FFTE 5.0 Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 3614.78 |========================================================== Timed MrBayes Analysis 3.1.2 Primate Phylogeny Analysis (Bayes) Seconds < Lower Is Better Baremetal . 23.67 |============================================================ CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 14219.27 |========================================================= John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 Password Hasing: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 6219 |============================================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Baremetal . 86.43 |============================================================ C-Ray 1.1 Raytracing, 1600x1200, 16 Threads, 8xAA Seconds < Lower Is Better Baremetal . 37.33 |============================================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Baremetal . 6.69 |============================================================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Baremetal . 15.90 |============================================================ FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Baremetal . 10.30 |============================================================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Baremetal . 23.37 |============================================================ GnuPG 1.4.10 1GB File Encryption Seconds < Lower Is Better Baremetal . 12.20 |============================================================ Mencoder 1.1 AVI To LAVC Seconds < Lower Is Better Baremetal . 37.31 |============================================================ PyBench 2008-08-14 Python Benchmark Suite Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Baremetal . 2956 |============================================================= PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 60426 |============================================================ Cyclictest 0.84 Test Case: POSIX Timer, Interval 500 ms, 100000 Loops ms Average < Lower Is Better Baremetal . 7 |================================================================ Cyclictest 0.84 Test Case: POSIX Timer, Interval 10000 ms, 10000 Loops ms Average < Lower Is Better Baremetal . 10 |=============================================================== Cyclictest 0.84 Test Case: clock_nanosleep TIME_ABSTIME, Interval 500 ms, 100000 Loops ms Average < Lower Is Better Baremetal . 6 |================================================================ Cyclictest 0.84 Test Case: clock_nanosleep TIME_ABSTIME, Interval 10000 ms, 10000 Loops ms Average < Lower Is Better Baremetal . 8 |================================================================ OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 61.70 |============================================================ PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 2541.71 |========================================================== NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 14187.48 |========================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Baremetal . 14486.26 |=========================================================