diskresult2 VMware testing on CentOS 6.6 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Virtual disk #1: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 2048 MB DRAM, Disk: 17GB Virtual disk + 4GB Virtual disk + 9GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: VMware VMXNET3 OS: CentOS 6.6, Kernel: 2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME, Display Driver: vmware 13.0.1, Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware Virtual disk #2: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 2048 MB DRAM, Disk: 17GB Virtual disk + 4GB Virtual disk + 9GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: VMware VMXNET3 OS: CentOS 6.6, Kernel: 2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME, Display Driver: vmware 13.0.1, 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 #1 . 69.37 |====================================================== Virtual disk #2 . 69.83 |====================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk #1 . 6.74 |======================================================= Virtual disk #2 . 6.79 |=======================================================