Results

VMware IO Analyzer Performance Tests:

Here is a list of tested VMware vSphere enviroments, where I used the appliance.

You can find detailed Information about the Test profiles here.

IBM 4 node SVC with IBM V7000 Arrays at customer site, 8Gbit FC

Test profile	IOPS / MBps	Latency	CPU Load
Max_IOPS	102.621	0,15 ms	36%
Max_Write_IOPS	14.823	3,65 ms	39%
Max_Throughput	668 MB/s	11,35 ms	38%
Max_Write_Throughput	725 MB/s	10,12 ms	42%

EMC VNX 5600 at customer site, 4Gbit FC

Test profile	IOPS / MBps	Latency	CPU Load
Max_IOPS	3.500	11,3 ms	26%
Max_Write_IOPS	4.500	12,2 ms	29%
Max_Throughput	347 MB/s	20,5 ms	27%
Max_Write_Throughput	344 MB/s	40,3 ms	31%

Nexenta Community Edition with SSD Cache at HomeLab, 4Gbit FC

Test profile	IOPS / MBps	Latency	CPU Load
Max_IOPS	75.148	32,4 ms	26%
Max_Write_IOPS	26.158	43,6 ms	21%
Max_Throughput	386 MB/s	13,8 ms	28%
Max_Write_Throughput	392 MB /s	16,7 ms	19%

IBM DS3500 at HomeLab, 4Gbit FC

Test profile	IOPS / MBps	Latency	CPU Load
Max_IOPS	63.564	0,35 ms	40%
Max_Write_IOPS	14.896	2,01 ms	18%
Max_Throughput	347 MB/s	22,73 ms	12%
Max_Write_Throughput	394 MB/s	33,97 ms	9%

Fujitsu Eternus DX600 S3 with 10GbE iSCSI

Test profile	IOPS / MBps	Latency	CPU Load
Max_IOPS	45.931	0,58 ms	3%
Max_Write_IOPS	21.379	1,38 ms	4%
Max_Throughput	476 MB/s	34,68 ms	3%
Max_Write_Throughput	217 MB/s	65,62 ms	2%

HP MSA P2000 G3, 4Gbit FC

Test profile	IOPS / MBps	Latency	CPU Load
Max_IOPS	37.251	0,67 ms	12%
Max_Write_IOPS	11.983	2,37 ms	8%
Max_Throughput	381 MB/s	29,37 ms	9%
Max_Write_Throughput	365 MB/s	34,04 ms	7%

HP P4500 G2 iSCSI

Test profile	IOPS / MBps	Latency	CPU Load
Max_IOPS	22.191	0,8 ms	53%
Max_Write_IOPS	21.578	1,02 ms	58%
Max_Throughput	106 MB/s	150,5 ms	54%
Max_Write_Throughput	93 MB/s	164,8 ms	30%

Have you tested your Storage Subsystem with IO Analyzer? Drop me a note with your results and I will publish them here…