tiot1 Adjusted params on storage, changed iosched to noop and reduced queue size on client tio test 1: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5620 @ 2.39GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DRAM, Disk: 43GB Virtual disk, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Network: VMware VMXNET3 OS: Fedora 20, Kernel: 3.14.5-200.fc20.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: KDE 4.12.5, Display Server: X Server 1.14.4, Display Driver: vmware 13.0.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 20131212, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x768, System Layer: VMware Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better tio test 1 . 15.25 |===========================================================