STMFG VMware testing on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Disk Performance - No Cache: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 2048 MB DRAM, Disk: 17GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: VMware VMXNET3 OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-514.6.1.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1672x1254, System Layer: VMware AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Disk Performance - No Cache . 104.89 |========================================= SQLite 3.8.10.2 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Disk Performance - No Cache . 19.20 |========================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Disk Performance - No Cache . 228.57 |========================================= Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Disk Performance - No Cache . 825.34 |========================================= Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Disk Performance - No Cache . 1061.78 |======================================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Disk Performance - No Cache . 622.50 |========================================= Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Disk Performance - No Cache . 242.07 |========================================= IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Disk Performance - No Cache . 513.56 |========================================= IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Disk Performance - No Cache . 530.46 |========================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Disk Performance - No Cache . 27.87 |========================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Disk Performance - No Cache . 8.98 |=========================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Disk Performance - No Cache . 13.61 |========================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Disk Performance - No Cache . 2044 |=========================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Disk Performance - No Cache . 19.02 |========================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Disk Performance - No Cache . 10397.93 |=======================================