bonnie++ benchmark thread

[cjcox]

ESX 3.0.1 running in an 8-way (4x8218) DL585G2 with 32G with a QLA200 HBA. Guest machine is

running Novell's SLES 10 with 1G memory. Disk is coming from a Nexsan SATABeast configured

for RAID6 and using a 2Gbps Sanbox 5202 switch.

It's not awesome, a gazillion times better than using the local SCSI RAID on the DL585.

SLES10 users, I used bonnie++ 1.01d rpm's from the SUSE 10.1 Professional.

ESX server was lightly loaded (about 10 guests)... might have thrown off the numbers smidge.

Version 1.01d       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
-Per Chr- Block -Rewrite- -Per Chr- Block Seeks
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
eightcore-sles10 2G 76755  95 149797  53 61544  29 96998  83 167702  23 302.6   0
------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
-Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
16 +++++ + +++++ + 29948  99 +++++ + +++++ + 27773  99
eightcore-sles10,2G,76755,95,149797,53,61544,29,96998,83,167702,23,302.6,0,16,+++++,+,+++++,+,29948,99,+++++,+,+++++,+,27773,99

[cjcox]

Oh.. the virtual disks for the guest are off of vmfs which in on the SAN storage. In case some were wondering. We placed a LUN from the SATABeast under vmfs control.

[oreeh]

Did you saw this thread ?

[cjcox]

Thanks... I may run iometer and post to that thread. Let's see if some other can post some bonnie++ benchies here.

[cjcox]

Ick. iometer may be open source... but it's really, really, really bad code. I don't think I want to try it on Linux.