a lxd LXD run: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 @ 2.40GHz (1 Core / 2 Threads), Motherboard: Microsoft Virtual Machine v7.0 (090007 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 32GB Virtual Disk + 17GB Virtual Disk + 1098GB Virtual Disk, Graphics: Microsoft Hyper-V virtual VGA OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-1031-azure (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 1152x864, System Layer: lxc Microsoft Hyper-V Server LXD: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 @ 2.40GHz (1 Core / 2 Threads), Motherboard: Microsoft Virtual Machine v7.0 (090007 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 32GB Virtual Disk + 17GB Virtual Disk + 1098GB Virtual Disk, Graphics: Microsoft Hyper-V virtual VGA OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-1031-azure (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: zfs, Screen Resolution: 1152x864, System Layer: lxc Microsoft Hyper-V Server AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better LXD run . 470.60 |============================================================= LXD ..... 467.37 |=============================================================