[CentOS-virt] Storage performance

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:13:29PM +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
> <dennisml at conversis.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I recently did some benchmarking on a Rackspace VM and was surprised that
> > bonnie++ showed a read throughput of almost 500MB/sec. Does anyone have an
> 
> Seems like the 2Gbps fibre bandwidth is equally divided into 4 in the
> SANprovide such speeds. a Very conservative design I suppose.
> 
> dunno. Last seen SAN about 6 months ago so memory fades...
> 

You're mixing up units. 2 Gbps means 2 Gbit/sec, which is around 200 MB/sec.

-- Pasi