FNOX FIO Disk Benchmarks
Virtual and Physical Appliance Disk Performance Testing


V7000-hdd-raid10: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DRAM, Disk: 21GB Virtual disk + 11GB Virtual disk

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1176x885, System Layer: VMware

vmware-ibm840-prod: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DRAM, Disk: 21GB Virtual disk + 11GB Virtual disk

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1176x885, System Layer: VMware

physical-ibm840-fc: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 3.20GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO 00YJ423, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 1 x 16384 MB 2133MHz Hynix, Disk: 959GB ServeRAID M5210 + 2 x 2199GB FlashSystem-9840, Graphics: Matrox s G200eR2, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit PCIe

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-327.4.5.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768

kvm-ibm840-nocache: 

	Processor: 4 x Intel Core (Haswell) @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Red Hat KVM, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB RAM, Disk: 50GB, Audio: QEMU ID 22

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM

vmware-ibm840-fc: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB DRAM, Disk: 21GB Virtual disk + 107GB Virtual disk

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1672x1254, System Layer: VMware

vmware-v7000gen2-prod: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Memory: 1 x 16384 MB DRAM, Disk: 21GB Virtual disk + 11GB Virtual disk

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1176x885, System Layer: VMware

vmware-v7000gen2-prod-norep: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Memory: 1 x 16384 MB DRAM, Disk: 21GB Virtual disk + 11GB Virtual disk

	OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1176x885, System Layer: VMware


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /root/pgdisk - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
V7000-hdd-raid10 ............ 65.52  |====
vmware-ibm840-prod .......... 233.65 |===============
physical-ibm840-fc .......... 644.97 |=========================================
kvm-ibm840-nocache .......... 586.78 |=====================================
vmware-ibm840-fc ............ 499.46 |================================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod ....... 87.98  |======
vmware-v7000gen2-prod-norep . 113.13 |=======


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /root/pgdisk - Result: IOPS
IOPS > Higher Is Better
V7000-hdd-raid10 ............ 15701  |====
vmware-ibm840-prod .......... 58541  |===============
physical-ibm840-fc .......... 157764 |=========================================
kvm-ibm840-nocache .......... 148319 |=======================================
vmware-ibm840-fc ............ 125302 |=================================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod ....... 22088  |======
vmware-v7000gen2-prod-norep . 26823  |=======


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /root/pgdisk - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
V7000-hdd-raid10 ............ 220.02 |==================
vmware-ibm840-prod .......... 306.78 |=========================
physical-ibm840-fc .......... 498.26 |=========================================
kvm-ibm840-nocache .......... 466.06 |======================================
vmware-ibm840-fc ............ 402.48 |=================================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod ....... 299.70 |=========================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod-norep . 276.78 |=======================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /root/pgdisk - Result: IOPS
IOPS > Higher Is Better
V7000-hdd-raid10 ............ 58762  |===================
vmware-ibm840-prod .......... 78490  |=========================
physical-ibm840-fc .......... 128150 |=========================================
kvm-ibm840-nocache .......... 115973 |=====================================
vmware-ibm840-fc ............ 100571 |================================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod ....... 76183  |========================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod-norep . 65649  |=====================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /root/pgdisk - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
V7000-hdd-raid10 ............ 55.20  |=====
vmware-ibm840-prod .......... 220.70 |==================
physical-ibm840-fc .......... 500.13 |=========================================
kvm-ibm840-nocache .......... 427.33 |===================================
vmware-ibm840-fc ............ 494.37 |=========================================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod ....... 65.84  |=====
vmware-v7000gen2-prod-norep . 79.01  |======


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Random Write - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /root/pgdisk - Result: IOPS
IOPS > Higher Is Better
V7000-hdd-raid10 ............ 13730  |=====
vmware-ibm840-prod .......... 55484  |==================
physical-ibm840-fc .......... 124481 |=========================================
kvm-ibm840-nocache .......... 112721 |=====================================
vmware-ibm840-fc ............ 123678 |=========================================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod ....... 15988  |=====
vmware-v7000gen2-prod-norep . 18967  |======


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /root/pgdisk - Result: MB/s
MB/s > Higher Is Better
V7000-hdd-raid10 ............ 151.02 |===============
vmware-ibm840-prod .......... 225.18 |=======================
physical-ibm840-fc .......... 408.98 |=========================================
kvm-ibm840-nocache .......... 408.82 |=========================================
vmware-ibm840-fc ............ 402.36 |========================================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod ....... 240.65 |========================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod-norep . 207.76 |=====================


Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13
Type: Random Read - IO Engine: Libaio - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: /root/pgdisk - Result: IOPS
IOPS > Higher Is Better
V7000-hdd-raid10 ............ 11189  |====
vmware-ibm840-prod .......... 55849  |======================
physical-ibm840-fc .......... 102232 |=========================================
kvm-ibm840-nocache .......... 102184 |=========================================
vmware-ibm840-fc ............ 100541 |========================================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod ....... 60360  |========================
vmware-v7000gen2-prod-norep . 49131  |====================