YMMR-cent64 VMware testing on CentOS 6.4 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Virtual disk: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2470 0 @ 2.29GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 16384 MB DRAM, Disk: 215GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: VMware VMXNET3 OS: CentOS 6.4, Kernel: 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Display Driver: vmware 12.0.2, Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware Intel Xeon E5-2470 0: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2470 0 @ 2.29GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 16384 MB DRAM, Disk: 215GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: VMware VMXNET3 OS: CentOS 6.4, Kernel: 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Display Driver: vmware 12.0.2, Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 18.10 |========================================================= Virtual disk . 16.52 |==================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 25.47 |========================================================= Virtual disk . 25.07 |======================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 14.67 |======================================================== Virtual disk . 15.00 |========================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync Files/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 1086.33 |======================================================= Virtual disk . 1075.23 |====================================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 LPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2470 0 . 19605057.83 |=========================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Integer Arithmetic LPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2470 0 . 1925772.23 |============================================ BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Register Arithmetic LPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2470 0 . 1927152.50 |============================================ BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Floating-Point Arithmetic LPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2470 0 . 1920239.83 |============================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2470 0 . 13191.23 |==============================================