u VMware testing on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3: Processor: 24 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (24 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 8 x 16384 MB DRAM, Disk: 107GB Virtual disk + 8 x 1100GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: VMware VMXNET3 OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 4.7.0-0.rc3.git1.1.el7.centos.x86_64 (x86_64) 20160615, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.4, Display Driver: vmware 13.0.2, Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: btrfs, Screen Resolution: 1672x1254, System Layer: VMware SQLite 3.8.10.2 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 . 309.90 |================================ IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 . 2421.06 |=============================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 . 162.50 |================================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 . 6430.76 |=============================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 . 4.18 |================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 . 519.29 |================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 . 53.91 |================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 . 262.06 |================================ Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 . 13.72 |================================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 . 864 |=================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 . 16.07 |================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Virtual disk - Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 . 3645.22 |===============================