Today a new Intel SSD arrived in our test labs and the performance is really nice. I installed Proxmox VE and some guests, very fast and for testing and demonstrations quite impressive.
I installed a Ubuntu 9.04 as a KVM guest and starting applications like OpenOffice is extremely fast. Also OpenVZ benefits a lot from the seek time of 0,06 ms - running the Proxmox Mail Gateway was also incredible.
here are the results of pveperf:
(Intel CPU X3220, Intel entry level server board, single SSD on ICH9)
For using in production system:
Due to the high price for reliable SLC SSD (SLC have much better write performance than our MLC Intel SSD) and some needed optimizations in the file systems which will happen to future Kernels SSD is still no mainstream technology but it is definitely the future and virtualization will benefit a lot from SSD.
I installed a Ubuntu 9.04 as a KVM guest and starting applications like OpenOffice is extremely fast. Also OpenVZ benefits a lot from the seek time of 0,06 ms - running the Proxmox Mail Gateway was also incredible.
here are the results of pveperf:
(Intel CPU X3220, Intel entry level server board, single SSD on ICH9)
Code:
intel-ssd:~# pveperf
CPU BOGOMIPS: 19152.02
REGEX/SECOND: 739360
HD SIZE: 36.67 GB (/dev/pve/root)
[COLOR=Blue][B]BUFFERED READS: 235.94 MB/sec
AVERAGE SEEK TIME: [/B][B]0.06 [/B][B]ms
FSYNCS/SECOND: [/B][B]2987.75[/B][/COLOR]
DNS EXT: 28.40 ms
DNS INT: 1.05 ms (maurer-it.com)
intel-ssd:~#Due to the high price for reliable SLC SSD (SLC have much better write performance than our MLC Intel SSD) and some needed optimizations in the file systems which will happen to future Kernels SSD is still no mainstream technology but it is definitely the future and virtualization will benefit a lot from SSD.
